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Upper East (region)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 91 Collections and/or Records:

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Bawku market, leather workers, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/127
Scope and Contents

The negative envelope is numbered '35'.

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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Bawku market, rice stall, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/123
Scope and Contents

The negative envelope is numbered '30'.

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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Bawku market, rope making, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/119
Scope and Contents

The negative envelope is numbered '26'.

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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Bawku market, salt stall, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/120
Scope and Contents

The negative envelope is numbered '27'.

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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Bawku market, salt stall, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/121
Scope and Contents

The negative envelope is numbered '27'.

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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Bawku market, water sellers, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/124
Scope and Contents

The negative envelope is numbered '33'.

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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Binaba market, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/90
Scope and Contents

Stored in negative album envelope number '34'.

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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[Cattle immunisation, Navrongo Native Administration, Northern Territories, c.1945], 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/192
Scope and Contents

Showing a group of men holding a cow which is about to be vaccinated. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads ' Cattle Insurance. At the immunization camps set up by the Department of Animal Health, the farmers pay one shilling per beast that is immunized; this goes to the Native Treasury. Should, as occasionally happens, an animal die from injections, the Native Treasury pays out the full value of the beast to the owner'.

Dates: 1945
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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Chief going to market, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/82
Scope and Contents

Stored in negative album envelope number '26'.

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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Communal farming: Kusasi, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/93
Scope and Contents

Stored in negative album envelope number '37'.

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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Communal farming: Kusasi, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/94
Scope and Contents

Stored in negative album envelope number '38'.

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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Customs post, Bawku, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/125
Scope and Contents

The annotation on the negative envelope reads 'Weighing kola nuts being exported to Upper Volta'. The negative envelope is numbered '34'.

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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Customs post, Bawku, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/126
Scope and Contents

The annotation on the negative envelope reads 'Weighing kola nuts being exported to Upper Volta'. The negative envelope is numbered '34'.

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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District Commissioner Arthur Davies checks the treasury accounts with the Treasury Clerk, 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/184
Scope and Contents

The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'These audits are carried out monthly. The District Commissioner also counter-signs all payment and receipt vouchers'.

Dates: 1945
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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Entrance, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/100
Scope and Contents

Stored in negative album envelope number '49'.

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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Going to market, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/81
Scope and Contents

Stored in negative album envelope number '25'.

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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Granary, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/101
Scope and Contents

Stored in negative album envelope number '50'.

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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In this caravan-serai built by the Administration in Navrongo travellers may rent a room for a penny per night, 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/189
Scope and Contents

Showing a section of the compound of thatched mud huts rented out to travellers in Navrongo. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'this includes wood and water. The money going to the Native Treasury'.

Dates: 1945
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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Island of Philae, 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/389
Scope and Contents

Approximately 220 x 160 mm. Photographer unknown.

Dates: 1890 - 1899
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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James Chinatra is the Treasury clerk, 1940 - 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/179
Scope and Contents

Head and shoulders portrait. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'he earns four pounds ten shillings per month. Mission educated by the White Fathers, he has taught himself to type and has invented a shorthand of his own. He is a member of the Kassena tribe'.

Dates: 1940 - 1949
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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James Chinatra, the Treasury Clerk, reads letters to the illiterate wives of soldiers serving abroad, 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/185
Scope and Contents

The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'All the educated members of the Native Administration write and read letters to and from the soldiers and their wives free of charge'.

Dates: 1945
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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Kusasi chief and elders, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/72
Scope and Contents

Stored in negative album envelope number '15'.

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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Kusasi compound, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/96
Scope and Contents

Stored in negative album envelope number '45'.

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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Kusasi girl, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/73
Scope and Contents

Stored in negative album envelope number '16'.

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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Kusasi girl, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/74
Scope and Contents

Stored in negative album envelope number '17'.

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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