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Upper East (region)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 91 Collections and/or Records:

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Kusasi girl, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/75
Scope and Contents

Stored in negative album envelope number '18'.

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/76
Scope and Contents

Stored in negative album envelope number '19'.

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/77
Scope and Contents

Stored in negative album envelope number '20'.

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 market scene, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/78
Scope and Contents

Stored in negative album envelope number '21'.

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 market scene, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/79
Scope and Contents

Stored in negative album envelope number '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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Kusasi musician; calabash, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/86
Scope and Contents

Stored in negative album envelope number '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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Kusasi musician; fiddle, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/84
Scope and Contents

Stored in negative album envelope number '28'.

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 musician; flute, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/83
Scope and Contents

It appears that this is incorrectly captioned as the image is of a group of musicians. Stored in negative album envelope number '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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[Kusasi musician; flute player], 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/87
Scope and Contents

Stored in negative album envelope number '31'.

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 musician; guitar, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/85
Scope and Contents

Stored in negative album envelope number '29'.

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 woman and pipe, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/88
Scope and Contents

Stored in negative album envelope number '32'.

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 woman smoking pipe, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/71
Scope and Contents

Stored in negative album envelope number '14'.

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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Large Baobab, Bawku., 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448V/26
Scope and Contents

The caption continues: 'The size of this huge baobab tree is shown by the forest guard at its foot. The wood is useless for timber, Bawku district.' Swaine provides the note: 'Baobab = Adansonia digitata.'

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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Luxor, Mar 1920, 1920-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/1/374
Scope and Contents

45 x 65 mm. View of the columns of the temple.

Dates: 1920-03
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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Luxor, Mar 1920, 1920-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/1/375
Scope and Contents

60 x 85 mm. View of the columns of the temple.

Dates: 1920-03
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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Luxor, Mar 1920, 1920-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/1/377
Scope and Contents

70 x 45 mm. View of a temple.

Dates: 1920-03
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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Making corn beer, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/97
Scope and Contents

Stored in negative album envelope number '46'.

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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Making food, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/98
Scope and Contents

Stored in negative album envelope number '47'.

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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Mission educated Francis Archirobe is the Tax Clerk, 1940 - 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/180
Scope and Contents

Head and shoulders portrait. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'To him falls the job of travelling around to the villages and compounds, checking up the nominal roll of all the taxable able-bodied males. When the nominal roll is finished he works out the number of metal discs that will have to be ordered from England for the forthcoming financial year'.

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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Mother and child, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/99
Scope and Contents

Stored in negative album envelope number '48'.

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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Native Treasury - Northern Territories, 1940 - 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/177-192
Scope and Contents A series of British Official photographs (Crown Copyright Reserved). They each have the following typewritten caption on the reverse:'In the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast, the Local Treasuries run by Native Authorities are a complete success. Native Authorities are made responsible with their District Commissioner acting as guide and friend, not only for the collection of local revenue but also for its expenditure. In the Kassena-Nankenni Division, the Native Authority...
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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Peto sellers in the Navrongo market, 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/187
Scope and Contents

The typewritten caption on the reverse reads '(Peto is a native beer brewed from millet). They pay one penny tax on every pot they sell, each pot containing roughly three gallons'.

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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Returning from market, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/80
Scope and Contents

Stored in negative album envelope number '24'.

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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Temple of Luxor, Mar 1920, 1920-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/1/373
Scope and Contents

85 x 60 mm.

Dates: 1920-03
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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The Chief of Navrongo, 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/182
Scope and Contents

Head and shoulders profile portrait. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'He has been chief for thirty years and is the elected president of the Federation of Kassena-Nankanni Chiefs'.

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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