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Cameroon (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 506 Collections and/or Records:

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Nkungie - Berabi road, 1940-02-26

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043BB/323
Scope and Contents

109 x 64 mm. The road as it passes from spur to spur along the narrow edge with a long drop on either side.

Dates: 1940-02-26
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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Nsungli house construction, Ndu, 1941-01-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043BB/358
Scope and Contents

63 x 63mn. House construction in Nsungli, the bamboo walls completed and then the flat ceiling bamboo put in place for the fixing of the roof.

Dates: 1941-01-11
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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Ntong, 1940-02-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043BB/304
Scope and Contents

62 x 40 mm. Scene in the village.

Dates: 1940-02-12
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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Ntong, 1940-02-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043BB/305
Scope and Contents

44 x 35 mm. neg. and 110 x 79 mm. print. Evening, a lady returns home to cook after a day on the farms.

Dates: 1940-02-12
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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Nyange, a Bamendankwe woman, Bamenda, 1941-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043BB/399
Scope and Contents

40 x 62 mm. Nyange, a Bamendankwe woman with her child. Again, being mountain people they are short in stature with thick muscular thighs and broad chested.

Dates: 1941-12
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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Nyange, a Bamendankwe woman, Bamenda, 1941-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043BB/400
Scope and Contents

40 x 62 mm. They usually wear one or at the most, two waist strings from which a few fibres form a fringe in front but they wear several necklaces of beads like the Dante people.

Dates: 1941-12
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 man at Kumbo, 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/580
Scope and Contents

Cameroon, smoking pipe.

Dates: 1934
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 woman, Bali, 1941-10-30

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043BB/392
Scope and Contents

51 x 40 mm. An old Bali woman carrying home her water supply in a calabash from the village stream. Women work to a ripe old age.

Dates: 1941-10-30
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 women, Nkungie, 1940-02-25

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043BB/317
Scope and Contents

45 x 62 mm. Some of the older ladies who have no charms to offer the young Tiko labourers and therefore no atrocious costumes to wear sit and discuss the events of the day.

Dates: 1940-02-25
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 way to Pinane[?], 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/373
Scope and Contents

Showing carriers walking in a line with carrying luggage on their heads.

Dates: 1934
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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Owa Mbelefo, Wum woman, Bemenda, 1941-09-16

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043BB/384
Scope and Contents

64 x 95 mm. Owa Mbelefo turns round to show the back style of the Wum dress which consists of a 'tail' of thick dried fibres fixed to the numerous beaded waist strings.

Dates: 1941-09-16
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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Pagan girls, Bamenda, 1937-03-14

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043BB/2
Scope and Contents

56 x 84 mm. Pagan girls whose only adornment consists of brightly coloured raffia bags, examining cheap Manchester cottons with interest.

Dates: 1937-03-14
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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Patients waiting for medicine at Mvwe Market, 1940-02-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043BB/281
Scope and Contents

109 x 61 mm. neg. and contact print.

Dates: 1940-02-10
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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Paying Mkpandi labourers, nr. Bole, 1938-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043BB/120
Scope and Contents

60 x 42 mm. Payment of the Mkpandi labourers at Bole on the new road.

Dates: 1938-01
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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People flocking to hear news, Banso Market, 1939-09-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043BB/220
Scope and Contents

62 x 40 mm. The people flocking to the place where the news will be called. Old women still sit smoking beside their market produce, preferring to wait till they hear the News from some of the younger and more agile persons.

Dates: 1939-09-06
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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[Pipe], 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/574
Scope and Contents

The caption on the album page reads: 'Pipes collected in the Cameroons'.

Dates: 1934
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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[Pipe], 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/575
Scope and Contents

The caption on the album page reads: 'Pipes collected in the Cameroons'.

Dates: 1934
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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[Pipe], 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/576
Scope and Contents

The caption on the album page reads: 'Pipes collected in the Cameroons'.

Dates: 1934
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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[Pipe], 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/577
Scope and Contents

The caption on the album page reads: 'Pipes collected in the Cameroons'.

Dates: 1934
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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[Pipe], 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/579
Scope and Contents

The caption on the album page reads: 'Pipes collected in the Cameroons'.

Dates: 1934
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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Plantation of Funtumias, Botanic Gardens, Victoria, Cameroons [i.e. Cameroon], 1903 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/90
Scope and Contents

152 x 110 mm. A view showing a plantation of seven-and-a-half year old Funtumias where alternate trees in each row have been cut out. A European stands in the foreground examining a tree.

Dates: 1903 - 1910
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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Plantation of Funtumias, Botanic Gardens, Victoria, Cameroons [i.e. Cameroon], 1903 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/91
Scope and Contents

116 x 162 mm. A view showing a plantation of seven-and-a-half year old Funtumias where alternate trees in each row have been cut out. A European stands in the foreground examining a tree. Photograph probably by Christy.

Dates: 1903 - 1910
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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Portrait of Fai Bisen, Kimbaw, 1940-06-19

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043BB/342
Scope and Contents

56 x 84 mm. neg. and 85 x 113 mm. print. Fai Bisen, his beard is pleated in the old local style.

Dates: 1940-06-19
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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Potato sellers from Yeae at Banso, 1939-06-18

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043BB/204
Scope and Contents

62 x 40 mm. Potato sellers from Yeae, most of the potatoes come from this town about 2 hours walk north of Banso and are always carried in 4 handled baskets so the women can transfer the heavy weight basket to another woman when they are tired without having to put it on the ground and then raise it again.

Dates: 1939-06-18
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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[Public celebrations], 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/552
Scope and Contents

Showing some of the participants. Bamenda, Northwest Cameroon.

Dates: 1934
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).