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Gabon (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

 Fonds

Frank Wilson West African album

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043MM
Scope and Contents Album containing prints of West Africa. The album contains 12 double sided card pages with recessed centres in which photographs have been stuck. Plates 13 and 22 are enlargements of parts of photographs in the album, hinged in at the appropriate point, and 27 is a loose photograph. Some of the photographs have captions; in other cases brief descriptions have been provided in square brackets. There is no indication as to whether these photographs were published; they do not appear in...
Dates: 1890 - 1899
Conditions Governing Access: 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).
 Fonds

Photographs taken in French West Africa

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043S
Scope and Contents

A collection of loose photographs, mostly measuring 175 x 125 mm, probably taken by Henry Rudland and others. They have captions in Rudlands hand on the reverse.

Dates: 1910 - 1911
Conditions Governing Access: 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).
 Fonds

West African trading activities

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043NN
Scope and Contents

An album containing photographs showing aspects of European trade in the West African coast.

The photographs occupy 28 pages of an album; plates 21-27, 30-31 and 32-34 each occupy one page. There are a number of blank pages at the back. Most of the prints have brief captions, which have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. They are not always reliable: see, e.g., plates 10 and 15.

Dates: 1870 - 1889
Conditions Governing Access: 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).