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Volta (river)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:

 Item

Bridge over Volta, Adome. Soon after opening, 1930 - 1947

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448G/75
Scope and Contents

150 x 210 mm.

Dates: 1930 - 1947
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Y30448G/60, 86-114 and 118-19 are missing.
 Item

[Canoes on the River Volta, c.1945], 1945

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/146
Scope and Contents

Showing long wooden fishing canoes moored on the bank of the River Volta. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'Another source of revenue is the canoe license; this costs ten shillings per year'.

Dates: 1945
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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Deputy Commissioner R. F. Goldsworthy's account of the Volta Expedition, 1874 - 1875

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/15
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

This collection is composed of archives relating to Glover’s government of Lagos and the Volta campaign during the Second Anglo-Asante War.

Dates: 1874 - 1875
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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Deputy Commissioner R. F. Goldsworthy's statement of the reasons for the Volta Expedition, 1874 - 1875

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/16
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

This collection is composed of archives relating to Glover’s government of Lagos and the Volta campaign during the Second Anglo-Asante War.

Dates: 1874 - 1875
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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Diary of the Volta Expedition, 1873-09-11 - 1874-03-13

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/17/1
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The author is unidentified.

Dates: 1873-09-11 - 1874-03-13
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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Diary of the Volta Expedition, 1874-03-15 - 1874-06-19

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/17/2
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The author is unidentified.

Dates: 1874-03-15 - 1874-06-19
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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[Fishing in the River Volta, c.1945], 1945

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/145
Scope and Contents

The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'The revenue of the State Treasury is collected from various sources, one of these being the fishing tax. Five shillings per year is paid for a fishing permit. This Krobo fisherman casts his net in the River Volta which passes through part of Manya Krobo'.

Dates: 1945
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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George Miller to Earl Granville respecting the navigability of the River Volta, 1873-08

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/6/36
Scope and Contents

Forwarded to Glover by the Colonial Office.

Dates: 1873-08
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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Letter book containing documents relating to the Volta Expedition, 1873 - 1874

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/12
Scope and Contents

It includes Glover's appointment as Special Commissioner and instructions from the Colonial Office.

Dates: 1873 - 1874
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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Letter book for the Volta Expedition, 1873 - 1875

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/14
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

This collection is composed of archives relating to Glover’s government of Lagos and the Volta campaign during the Second Anglo-Asante War.

Dates: 1873 - 1875
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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Letters regarding the navigation of the Volta River, 1873-02 - 1873-08

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/6/35
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

This collection is composed of archives relating to Glover’s government of Lagos and the Volta campaign during the Second Anglo-Asante War.

Dates: 1873-02 - 1873-08
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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Near mouth of Volta River. Corn stack, 1939

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/43
Scope and Contents

The negative envelope is numbered '4'.

Dates: 1939
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

Produce is shipped to the coastal markets down the River Volta from Manya Volta from Manya Krobo [sic], 1945

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/147
Scope and Contents

Showing wooden sailing vessels moored on the bank of the River Volta, with sacks of produce stacked in the foreground.

Dates: 1945
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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Sailing orders for 'Lady of the Lake', 1873-09-04

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/6/38
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

This collection is composed of archives relating to Glover’s government of Lagos and the Volta campaign during the Second Anglo-Asante War.

Dates: 1873-09-04
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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Sir John Glover’s orders during the Volta Expedition, 1873 - 1874

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/11
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

This collection is composed of archives relating to Glover’s government of Lagos and the Volta campaign during the Second Anglo-Asante War.

Dates: 1873 - 1874
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 Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana] Volta River Project, 1940 - 1959

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011R/33
Scope and Contents

150 x 115 mm. Aerial view of the Volta River. The caption on the reverse reads 'The Volta River project in the Gold Coast is an ambitious scheme for the joint development of resources of water power and bauxite and the production of aluminium by the United Kingdom and the Gold Coast Government'.

Dates: 1940 - 1959
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 Volta expedition during the late Ashantee Campaign', 1874

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/10/9
Scope and Contents

This publication is an offprint from 'Royal United Service Institution', vol. XVIII, 1874, 317-40. It is the text of a lecture that Glover delivered on 15 May, 1874.

Dates: 1874
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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Volta ferry crossing: Akure, 1957 - 1961

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448G/117
Scope and Contents

Negative.

Dates: 1957 - 1961
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Y30448G/60, 86-114 and 118-19 are missing.
 File

Volume 1, 1873 - 1874

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/13/1
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

This collection is composed of archives relating to Glover’s government of Lagos and the Volta campaign during the Second Anglo-Asante War.

Dates: 1873 - 1874
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

Volume 2, 1873 - 1874

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131/13/2
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

This collection is composed of archives relating to Glover’s government of Lagos and the Volta campaign during the Second Anglo-Asante War.

Dates: 1873 - 1874
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).