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Kano (inhabited place)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 40 Collections and/or Records:

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Market in the old town, Kano, 1933 - 1964

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/4/43
Scope and Contents

160 x 210 mm. Busy market scene. There seem to be many cotton sellers.

Dates: 1933 - 1964
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 Residency at Kano. 1911, 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011D/162
Scope and Contents

101 x 75 mm. Showing the two storey mud building of the Kano Residency.

Dates: 1911
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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One of the very fine modern buildings in the city, Kano, 1933 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/4/14
Scope and Contents

210 x 160 mm. Showing a large stone building with arches and a central clock tower.

Dates: 1933 - 1964
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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Part of the 300,000 ton crop of peasant grown groundnuts, Kano, 1933 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/4/32
Scope and Contents

210 x 160 mm. Showing three piles of sacks of groundnuts arranged in large pyramids between warehouses and beside the railway track.

Dates: 1933 - 1964
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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Sheep in the market at Kano, Northern Nigeria, 1933 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/4/35
Scope and Contents

210 x 160 mm. Showing a man with his herd of sheep.

Dates: 1933 - 1964
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).
 File

South African Aid to Britain Fund Film 3, 1955-11 - 1956-01

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 219/3/3
Scope and Contents Part of ‘South African Aid to Britain Fund Overseas travel parties for Youth. West Africa Tour. November 1955 - January 1956’, and second part of the RCMS 219/3/2 film on Nigeria. Intertitles and shot list include: ‘Itu Leper Colony’, ‘Enugu - Boys’ Band Hilltop’, ‘Jos tin mines - tin and columbite’, ‘Famous hospital - Vom. Plateau - house and patients’, ‘Village crafts - Kudaru’, ‘Mock Police Riot. Police College, Kaduna’, ‘Northern House of Assembly’, ‘Compound of the Emir of Zaria’,...
Dates: 1955-11 - 1956-01
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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Storage of groundnut haulms for dry season livestock feed, Northern Nigeria, 1933 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/4/34
Scope and Contents

160 x 210 mm. A view of a homestead at Kano.

Dates: 1933 - 1964
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 Emir saluting me at Kano], 1909 - 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011G/ON9
Scope and Contents

Showing a group of Hausa Chiefs charging on horseback towards the photographer.

Dates: 1909 - 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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The Emir saluting me at Kano, 1909 - 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011G/65
Scope and Contents

97 x 74 mm. Showing a group of Hausa Chiefs charging on horseback towards the photographer.

Dates: 1909 - 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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[The Emir saluting me at Kano], 1909 - 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011G/66
Scope and Contents

97 x 74 mm. Showing a group of Hausa Chiefs charging on horseback towards the photographer.

Dates: 1909 - 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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[Typical houses in Northern Nigeria], 1933 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/4/5
Scope and Contents

160 x 210 mm. Showing two buildings, one white with a patterned facade, and the other dark with a patterned facade and a whitened doorway, perhaps in Kano.

Dates: 1933 - 1964
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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[Typical houses in Northern Nigeria], 1933 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/4/6
Scope and Contents

210 x 160 mm. Showing a busy street scene, including a food stall, before a white building with a patterned facade, perhaps in Kano.

Dates: 1933 - 1964
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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[Typical houses in Northern Nigeria], 1933 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/4/7
Scope and Contents

165 x 120 mm. Showing a building with a white patterned facade, perhaps in Kano. There are three children outside one of the doorways.

Dates: 1933 - 1964
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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[Typical houses in Northern Nigeria], 1933 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/4/8
Scope and Contents

165 x 120 mm. Showing a building with a white patterned facade, perhaps in Kano. There are three children outside one of the doorways.

Dates: 1933 - 1964
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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[Typical houses in Northern Nigeria], 1933 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/4/9
Scope and Contents

120 x 165 mm. Showing a woman with a basket on her head standing in front of a doorway which has a simple pattern on it.

Dates: 1933 - 1964
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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