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Congo (nation)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 53 Collections and/or Records:

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The Chef de Poste of Boga and escort of Askaris, Semliki River, (n.d.) [i.e. no date]

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/159
Scope and Contents

104 x 79 mm. A view showing the Boga Chef de Poste and his askaris standing on the left (Congo) bank of the Semliki River near Lessi. The rows of wooden stakes in the river are fish traps.

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 Little Red Ituri Forest Buffalo (B. nanus) 1913, 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/219
Scope and Contents

115 x 85 mm. A view showing an old bull shot by Christy in the Ituri Forest.

Dates: 1913
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 square-lipped or white rhinoceros, Bodjo, Upper Wele, Congo, 1915, 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/202
Scope and Contents

95 x 74 mm. A view showing a white rhinoceros shot by Christy in order to capture its calf for the Antwerp Zoological Gardens.

Dates: 1915
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 square-lipped or white rhinoceros, Bodjo, Upper Wele, Congo, 1915, 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/203
Scope and Contents

95 x 74 mm. A view showing a white rhinoceros shot by Christy in order to capture its calf for the Antwerp Zoological Gardens.

Dates: 1915
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 square-lipped or white rhinoceros, Bodjo, Upper Wele, Congo, 1915, 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/204
Scope and Contents

95 x 74 mm. A view showing a white rhinoceros shot by Christy in order to capture its calf for the Antwerp Zoological Gardens.

Dates: 1915
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 Stanley Falls fisheries at Stanleyville [i.e. Kisangani] 1912-14, 1912 - 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/236
Scope and Contents 99 x 75 mm. A view showing the wooden stagings of the fish traps:'Towards the end of the low-water season, small tree-trunks and great supporting posts are fixed upright amongst the rocks and broken water at the falls ... Upon these are built elaborate stagings, lashed with forest creeper ropes, and stretching far out across the tumbling rapids from both banks. Six or ten feet beneath the staging, according to the height of the water, are suspended conical or bell-shaped basket...
Dates: 1912 - 1914
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 Stanley Falls fisheries at Stanleyville [i.e. Kisangani] 1912-14, 1912 - 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/237
Scope and Contents

99 x 75 mm. A view showing the wooden stagings of the fish traps. Photograph probably by Christy.

Dates: 1912 - 1914
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 Stanley Falls fisheries at Stanleyville [i.e. Kisangani] 1912-14, 1912 - 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/238
Scope and Contents

99 x 75 mm. A view showing the wooden stagings of the fish traps. Photograph probably by Christy.

Dates: 1912 - 1914
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 Stanley Falls fisheries at Stanleyville [i.e. Kisangani] 1912-14, 1912 - 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/239
Scope and Contents

98 x 75 mm. A view showing a section of the fisheries, with Africans seated on the rocks in the foreground.

Dates: 1912 - 1914
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 Stanley Falls fisheries at Stanleyville [i.e. Kisangani] 1912-14, 1912 - 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/240
Scope and Contents

96 x 73 mm. A view showing a section of the fisheries, with Africans seated on the rocks in the foreground.

Dates: 1912 - 1914
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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Tree-Frog's nest on a Phrynium leaf, Ituri Forest, (n.d.)

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/241
Scope and Contents

101 x 79 mm. A view showing frog's nest on the upper side of the leaf. The caption on the reverse of the print reads 'Eggs hatched in mass of white froth high above streams. The frothy mass is their means of protection. When tadpoles sufficiently developed they fall off into the water beneath'.

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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Tree-Frog's nest on a Phrynium leaf, Ituri Forest, (n.d.)

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/242
Scope and Contents

94 x 76 mm. A view showing frog's nest on the upper side of the leaf. The caption on the reverse of the print reads 'Eggs hatched in mass of white froth high above streams. The frothy mass is their means of protection. When tadpoles sufficiently developed they fall off into the water beneath'.

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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Unloading Ivory from an upriver steamer at Leopoldville [i.e. Kinshasa], 1904, 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/144
Scope and Contents

56 x 42 mm. A view showing rows of elephant tusks awaiting reloading onto railway trucks.

Dates: 1904
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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Unloading Ivory from an upriver steamer at Leopoldville [i.e. Kinshasa], 1904, 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/145
Scope and Contents

56 x 42 mm. A view showing rows of elephant tusks awaiting reloading onto railway trucks.

Dates: 1904
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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Wayne's Duiker (Cephalophus waynesi), Ituri Forest, ?c1913, 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/229
Scope and Contents

101 x 75 mm. A view showing a Wayne's Duiker (antelope) shot by Christy in the Ituri Forest.

Dates: 1913
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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Wayne's Duiker (Cephalophus waynesi), Ituri Forest, ?c1913, 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/230
Scope and Contents

101 x 75 mm. A view showing a Wayne's Duiker (antelope) shot by Christy in the Ituri Forest.

Dates: 1913
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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Wayne's Duiker (Cephalophus waynesi), Ituri Forest, ?c1913, 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/231
Scope and Contents

101 x 75 mm. A view showing a Wayne's Duiker (antelope) shot by Christy in the Ituri Forest.

Dates: 1913
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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Wayne's Duiker (Cephalophus waynesi), Ituri Forest, ?c1913, 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/232
Scope and Contents

101 x 75 mm. A view showing a Wayne's Duiker (antelope) shot by Christy in the Ituri Forest.

Dates: 1913
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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Weekly market at Niangara, Wele District, Upper Congo (n.d.)

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/160
Scope and Contents

85 x 60 mm. A view showing the busy market scene at Niangara with goods laid out on the ground in front of the traders.

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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Weekly market at Niangara, Wele District, Upper Congo (n.d.)

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/161
Scope and Contents

85 x 60 mm. A view showing the busy market scene at Niangara with goods laid out on the ground in front of the traders.

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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Weekly market at Niangara, Wele District, Upper Congo (n.d.)

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/162
Scope and Contents

86 x 60 mm. A view showing traders at Niangara seated under the shade of umbrellas in the market square.

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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Weekly market at Niangara, Wele District, Upper Congo (n.d.)

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/163
Scope and Contents

85 x 61 mm. A view showing market traders at Niangara. Photograph probably by Christy.

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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Weekly market at Niangara, Wele District, Upper Congo (n.d.)

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/164
Scope and Contents

85 x 61 mm. A view showing market traders at Niangara. Photograph probably by Christy.

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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Weekly market at Niangara, Wele District, Upper Congo (n.d.)

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/165
Scope and Contents

85 x 60 mm. A view showing a general view of the crowded market place at Niangara. Photograph probably by Christy.

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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Weekly market at Niangara, Wele District, Upper Congo (n.d.)

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/166
Scope and Contents

85 x 60 mm. A view showing a general view of the crowded market place at Niangara. Photograph probably by Christy.

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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