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Accra (inhabited place)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 137 Collections and/or Records:

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Loading cocoa into surf boats, Accra, Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana], 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Gold Coast/3
Scope and Contents

MISSING. Guggisberg stated: '...the wonderful scene on Accra beach, with the brown bags of cocoa representing the wealth of the country; the active Krooboys, the gleaming silvery sands, and the red-brown cliffs and white houses in the background' (Guggisberg, Gold Coast News, no. 25).

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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Loading passengers + cocoa from surf boats off Accra, 1940

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/142
Scope and Contents

The negative envelope is numbered '1'.

Dates: 1940
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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Loading passengers + cocoa from surf boats off Accra, 1940

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/143
Scope and Contents

The negative envelope is numbered '1'.

Dates: 1940
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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Loading passengers + cocoa from surf boats off Accra, 1940

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/144
Scope and Contents

The negative envelope is numbered '1'.

Dates: 1940
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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Loading passengers + cocoa from surf boats off Accra, 1940

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/145
Scope and Contents

The negative envelope is numbered '1'.

Dates: 1940
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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Loading passengers + cocoa from surf boats off Accra, 1940

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/146
Scope and Contents

The negative envelope is numbered '1'.

Dates: 1940
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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Maps, 1965

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 389/4/1/13
Scope and Contents

One street map of Accra and one 1:500,000 road map of Southern Ghana 1965 (produced by Survey of Ghana).

Dates: 1965
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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[March past of Gold Coast Regiment], 1940-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/162
Scope and Contents

A handwritten note, in the same hand as the envelope captions, reads 'Accra 1939 or 1940. March past of Gold Coast Regiment before going to E Africa. Salute taken by H.E. Sir Arnold Hodson, Governor. Regiment com. [?commanded] by Brigadier Richards. This was the only series of photographs taken of it occasion [sic]'. The negative envelope is numbered '21'.

Dates: 1940-06
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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[March past of Gold Coast Regiment], 1940-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/162A
Scope and Contents

A print measuring 180 x 130 mm. A handwritten note, in the same hand as the envelope captions, reads 'Accra 1939 or 1940. March past of Gold Coast Regiment before going to E Africa. Salute taken by H.E. Sir Arnold Hodson, Governor. Regiment com. [?commanded] by Brigadier Richards. This was the only series of photographs taken of it occasion [sic]'.

Dates: 1940-06
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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[March past of Gold Coast Regiment], 1940-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/163
Scope and Contents

A handwritten note, in the same hand as the envelope captions, reads 'Accra 1939 or 1940. March past of Gold Coast Regiment before going to E Africa. Salute taken by H.E. Sir Arnold Hodson, Governor. Regiment com. [?commanded] by Brigadier Richards. This was the only series of photographs taken of it occasion [sic]'. The negative envelope is numbered '21'.

Dates: 1940-06
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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[March past of Gold Coast Regiment], 1940-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/164
Scope and Contents

A handwritten note, in the same hand as the envelope captions, reads 'Accra 1939 or 1940. March past of Gold Coast Regiment before going to E Africa. Salute taken by H.E. Sir Arnold Hodson, Governor. Regiment com. [?commanded] by Brigadier Richards. This was the only series of photographs taken of it occasion [sic]'. The negative envelope is numbered '21'.

Dates: 1940-06
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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[March past of Gold Coast Regiment], 1940-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/165
Scope and Contents

A handwritten note, in the same hand as the envelope captions, reads 'Accra 1939 or 1940. March past of Gold Coast Regiment before going to E Africa. Salute taken by H.E. Sir Arnold Hodson, Governor. Regiment com. [?commanded] by Brigadier Richards. This was the only series of photographs taken of it occasion [sic]'. The negative envelope is numbered '21'.

Dates: 1940-06
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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Miss Mensah goes to vote, 1951-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011R/29
Scope and Contents

111 x 160 mm. The caption on the reverse reads 'The last stage in Miss Mensah's voting. She drops her marked and folded paper in the sealed ballot box'. It continues, at length, to give details about the elections.

Dates: 1951-02
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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Native Blacksmith at Work (Interior of the Gold Coast, W.A.), 1911 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448L/52
Scope and Contents

Coloured postcard. Copyright Basel Mission Book Depot, Accra. No. 82.

Dates: 1911 - 1929
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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Native woman, Accra, 1884-02-25

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305K/26
Scope and Contents

56 x 91 mm. A full length studio portrit of an African woman wearing a petterned skirt and a pinafore, her hair arranged in two upstanding ponytails on either side of her head.

Dates: 1884-02-25
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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Old Accra, Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana], 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Gold Coast/24
Scope and Contents

The caption on the reverse reads: 'Old Accra, Gold Coast. One of the squalid streets in old Accra which latter is steadily disappearing and giving way to broad highways and well-built dwelling-houses'.

Guggisberg stated: '...one of the congested quarters of Accra with its tumble-down hovels, its naked babies, its drainless street, a delightful scene... ' (Guggisberg, Gold Coast News, no. 25).

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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Old Type house for Europeans, Accra, Gold Coast, 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448L/66
Scope and Contents

Identified by Guggisberg as the home of Mr and Mrs Bettington , ‘among the shrubs and roses we can see the Inspector-General of Police in one of his rare restful moments, with the lady to whom so many of us in this country owe gratitude beside him. She herself is a wonderful bit of propaganda, for has she not lived in West Africa for 28 years?'

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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On the steps of Government House Accra, 1919 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448L/21
Scope and Contents

215 x 150 mm. Written on the back of is ‘Old Comrades Association Government House’. Two large groups of men and women in evening dress or uniform. Guggisberg, in tropical military uniform, is seated in the centre with Lady Guggisberg, in evening dress with the insignia of the C.B.E.

Dates: 1919 - 1929
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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[Opening of the Accra Water Works: after the fountain was unveiled], 1914-01-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448L/30
Scope and Contents

210 x 140 mm.

Dates: 1914-01-10
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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[Opening of the Accra Water Works: after the fountain was unveiled], 1914-01-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448L/31
Scope and Contents

205 x 140 mm. On the fountain can be discerned an inscription recording the laying of the stone by Sir John Rodger, Governor of the Gold Coast, 1910.

Dates: 1914-01-10
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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[Opening of the Accra Water Works: Car and Guard of Honour awaiting the Governor], 1914-01-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448L/33
Scope and Contents

205 x 140 mm.

Dates: 1914-01-10
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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[Opening of the Accra Water Works: Clifford speaking; in the foreground is an ornamental fountain shrouded in cloth], 1914-01-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448L/29
Scope and Contents

200 x 140 mm.

Dates: 1914-01-10
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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[Opening of the Accra Water Works: General view of the ceremony], 1914-01-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448L/28
Scope and Contents

205 x 140 mm.

Dates: 1914-01-10
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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[Opening of the Accra Water Works: Party leaving the dais], 1914-01-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448L/32
Scope and Contents

200 x 140 mm.

Dates: 1914-01-10
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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Orange seller. Accra market, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/141
Scope and Contents

The negative envelope is numbered '9'.

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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