Ashanti (region)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 82 Collections and/or Records:
Item
The Fort, Coomassie, Gold Coast [i.e. Kumasi, Ghana], 1924
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Gold Coast/11
Scope and Contents
The caption on the reverse reads: 'The Fort at Coomassie. This fort is the one which was held by a handful of Europeans and African troops for over 100 days during the Ashanti War of 1900; the Garrison being ultimately relieved by the forces under the command of Sir James Willcocks'.Guggisberg stated: 'Leaving the Colony, we come to Ashanti where the oil painting of the old Fort at Coomassie nestling amongst its palms and brightly coloured shrubs and looking a very different place...
Dates:
1924
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Typical Ashanti girl, 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/53
Scope and Contents
The negative envelope is numbered '22'.
Dates:
1939
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Typical Ashanti girl, 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/54
Scope and Contents
The negative envelope is numbered '22'.
Dates:
1939
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Typical 'best' clothes of Ashanti girls, 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/57
Scope and Contents
The negative envelope is numbered '52'.
Dates:
1939
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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University of Science and Technology, Kumasi
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011WW 3/2 Ghana/3
Scope and Contents
A coloured card of a coat of arms. Kumasi College of Science and Technology became the University of Science and Technology, Kumasi in 1961. Photographer unknown.
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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View over savannah woodland near Ejura, Ashanti, 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448V/18
Scope and Contents
The caption continues: 'Looking west September 47. With Cussonia sp., Terminalia spp. Daniellia oliveri, Khaya senegalensis, Lophira procera, Butyrospermum parkii esp ar.' Swaine provides the note: 'Butyrospermum now called Vitellaria paradoxa.'
Dates:
1947
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Young Avicennia nitida mangrove, Keta, 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448V/75
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Many images of woodland and logging scenes. The original numbering of the images has been followed.
Dates:
1939
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).