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North Buganda (province)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:

 Sub-Fonds

Account of the return of the Kabaka to Uganda, 1986

 Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 113/39
Scope and Contents

A copy of a letter written by Sir Ronald Bennett to his mother, 19 October 1955, describing in detail the ceremonies and celebrations for the return of the Kabaka of Buganda.

Dates: 1986
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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Advanced case, Buvuma Island, Victoria Nyanza 1902, 1902

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/40
Scope and Contents

156 x 111 mm (mounted on card). A view showing a sleeping sickness sufferer.

Dates: 1902
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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[African hut, ? Buvuma Island], 1902

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/61
Scope and Contents

152 x 110 mm. A view showing a large grass hut set among banana plants, probably on Buvuma Island. Photograph probably by Cuthbert Christy.

Dates: 1902
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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[African youth, Buvuma 1902], 1902

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/46
Scope and Contents

107 x 153 mm. A view showing a seated African boy, his stomach distended from lack of food.

Dates: 1902
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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Camp in Bwekula [Buwekula in Mubende], 1909-01 - 1909-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011D/49
Scope and Contents

88 x 70 mm. Showing a double row of banana and palm trees forming an avenue leading up to a thatched hut. In the foreground are an unidentified European on a horse and an African youth, probably Daudi Chwa.

Dates: 1909-01 - 1909-03
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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[Lethargy. The last stage. Buvuna [?Buvuma] Island 1902], 1902

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/35
Scope and Contents

150 x 110 mm. A view showing a sleeping, emaciated man in the terminal stage of sleeping sickness. Christy (1903) describes how this man was carried from his hut without awakening and how all the other members of his family were in a similar condition.

Dates: 1902
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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Mityana Church, 1894 - 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 113/38/3/4
Scope and Contents

74 x 101 mm. A view looking along the aisle of this country church towards the altar, with the font in the foreground and a small group of Uganda worshippers seated on the ground beyond. The pillars of the church are constructed from palm poles covered with polished reads sewn on with strips of bark.

Dates: 1894 - 1912
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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[Mubende], 1906 - 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011G/43
Scope and Contents

87 x 87 mm.

Dates: 1906 - 1909
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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[Mubende], 1906 - 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011G/44
Scope and Contents

87 x 87 mm.

Dates: 1906 - 1909
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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Mubende, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011D/62
Scope and Contents

88 x 82 mm. Showing the Albion lorry and motor car parked in front of the building erected shortly before Bell's 1909 visit.

Dates: 1909
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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Namasagali, 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/6/43
Scope and Contents

140 x 95 mm. Showing a steamboat moored alongside the railway tracks.

Dates: 1925
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 road from Mubende, 1909-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011D/52
Scope and Contents

86 x 82 mm. Showing Bell's motor car being driven across an improvised bridge on the road from Mubende. Bell's party left Mubende towards the end of February on his 1909 tour of the western districts.

Dates: 1909-02
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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On the road to Bombo, 1906 - 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011C/41
Scope and Contents

A view looking along the road, crowded in the distance with a large group of travellers, presumably part of Bell's retinue. Bombo is situated about 20 miles north of Kampala.

Dates: 1906 - 1909
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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[Sleeping sickness and starvation, Buvuma Island 1902], 1902

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/33
Scope and Contents

157 x 112 mm. View showing a large group of Africans suffering from a combination of sleeping sickness and starvation on Buvuma Island at the northern end of Lake Victoria. Dr. Christy was a member of the 1902 Commission sent to investigate outbreaks of sleeping sickness in Busoga.

Dates: 1902
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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[Sleeping sickness sores, Buvuma 1902], 1902

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/43
Scope and Contents

110 x 155 mm. A rear view of an African showing the deep sores which develop in the later stages of the disease.

Dates: 1902
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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[Sleeping sickness sores, Buvuma 1902], 1902

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/44
Scope and Contents

111 x 155 mm. A rear view of two emaciated Africans showing the deep sores which develop in the later stages of the disease.

Dates: 1902
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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[Sleeping sickness sores, probably at Buvuma 1902], 1902

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/45
Scope and Contents

109 x 154 mm. A view showing an emaciated African seated on the ground, his body covered with the deep sores developed in the later stages of the disease.

Dates: 1902
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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[? Ugandan African 1902], 1902

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/51
Scope and Contents

155 x 110 mm. A view showing an African man, possibly a sleeping sickness sufferer, seated on the ground in front of his hut (probably on the island of Buvuma).

Dates: 1902
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).