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Liberia (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:

 Item

Celebration, Bassa, 1938 - 1950

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448P/9
Scope and Contents

85 x 60 mm. duplicate of Y30468O/122.

Dates: 1938 - 1950
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

Chapter 7, 1902-12-21 - 1903-06-30

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 356/1/7
Scope and Contents

10 sheets.

Dates: 1902-12-21 - 1903-06-30
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).
 File

Depositions, 1930-04-30 - 1930-08-12

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 124/8/3
Scope and Contents

Evidence (170 pages) gathered by the commission during meetings with the chiefs and people of Kakata and Monrovia. The file includes an index.

Dates: 1930-04-30 - 1930-08-12
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).
 File

Depositions, 1930-04 - 1930-06

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 124/8/4
Scope and Contents

Evidence (100 pages) gathered by the commission.

Dates: 1930-04 - 1930-06
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).
 File

Depositions, 1930-04-13 - 1930-08-12

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 124/8/5
Scope and Contents

Evidence (100 pages) gathered by the commission.

Dates: 1930-04-13 - 1930-08-12
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).
 File

Depositions, 1930-04 - 1930-07

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 124/8/6
Scope and Contents

Evidence (60 pages) gathered by the commission.

Dates: 1930-04 - 1930-07
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

Diary, 1930-02-11 - 1930-10-16

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 124/8/1
Scope and Contents

Diary (circa 180 pages) kept by Christy recording the investigative work of the commission and the composition of its report.

Dates: 1930-02-11 - 1930-10-16
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).
 File

Drawings, 1962 - 1998

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 360/13
Scope and Contents

A volume containing 36 architectural and landscape drawings in pencil and related media.

Subjects are:

The Commonwealth Institute, London, 1961-1962 (4 drawings)

West Africa Tour 1968 (8 drawings)

Canada 1969 (19 drawings)

Jamaica 1969 (2 drawings)

Gibraltar 1985 and 1988 (3 drawings)











Dates: 1962 - 1998
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

Exhibits and correspondence, 1930-07-07 - 1930-09-11

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 124/8/2
Scope and Contents

File containing the commission's terms of reference and the evidence it gathered during its enquiry. It includes an index to the 102 items.

Dates: 1930-07-07 - 1930-09-11
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).
 Fonds

Inter-University Council Collection

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011WW
Scope and Contents A collection of photographs (various dates, sizes and photographers) and slides with a few leaflets, a file of correspondence, and some title cards as described below. The collection appears to have been assembled chiefly for publicity purposes and there is a file of correspondence requesting photographic and other material. Some of the photographs are mounted on cards for display, but the majority are loose prints stored in folders. There are also a few albums. The main subjects are the...
Dates: 1946 - 1986
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).
 Series

International Commission of Enquiry into the Existence of Slavery and Forced Labour in the Republic of Liberia, 1930-02 - 1930-09

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 124/8
Scope and Contents

Papers written and collected by Christy during his tenure as Chairman of the Commission set up by the League of Nations. The other members of the Commission were Dr Charles Spurgeon Johnson, representing the United States, and the Hon. Arthur Barclay, a former President of Liberia.

Dates: 1930-02 - 1930-09
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).
 Fonds

J.C. Smith West African photographs

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043HH
Scope and Contents

A collection of loose snapshots, measuring approximately 100 x 75 mm. These were presumably taken on a voyage to or from England. Brief captions appear on the backs. Photographer possibly J.C. Smith.

Dates: 1890 - 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).
 Sub-Series

Liberia, 1946 - 1986

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011WW 3/3 Liberia
Scope and Contents

A series of photographs of educational institutions in Liberia.

Dates: 1946 - 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).
 Series

Liberia, 1931-01 - 1938-03

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 334/5
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Cuttings from British and African newspapers and journals concerning different parts of Africa, particularly South Africa. There is an index to part of the collection.

Dates: 1931-01 - 1938-03
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).
 Fonds

Newscuttings on Africa and South East Asia

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 323
Scope and Contents

The principal part of the collection is a set of thirteen scrapbooks of newscuttings relating to East Africa, particularly Kenya and Tanganyika. The rest of the collection consists of a volume of cuttings relating to post-war trading opportunities in Nigeria and three scrapbooks concerning rubber and mining in South East Asia.

Dates: 1914 - 1953
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).
 Series

[Non-Commonwealth Universities], 1946 - 1986

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011WW 3/3
Scope and Contents

Includes material on Universities in countries outside the Commonwealth of Nations.

Dates: 1946 - 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).
 Fonds

Papers of Cuthbert Christy

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 124
Scope and Contents

Diaries, notes, letters, reports, publications and maps written or collected by Christy during his medical and zoological work in Scotland, Africa and India.

Dates: 1889 - 1930
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).
 File

Report of the International Commission of Enquiry into the Existence of Slavery and Forced Labour in the Republic of Liberia, 1930-08 - 1931

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 124/8/7
Scope and Contents

The file (circa 280 pages) contains material related to the appointment of the commission, the definition of its terms of reference, the publication of its official report, and the response of the Liberian, British and American governments to its findings and recommendations.

Dates: 1930-08 - 1931
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).
 Item

Smedley and Liberian diplomat, 1970 - 1972

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 389/12/17
Scope and Contents

245 x 190 mm black and white photograph of Smedley with an unidentified Liberian diplomat.

Dates: 1970 - 1972
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).