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Tamale (inhabited place)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:

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An open-airnatural [sic] history class in progress as part of farming studies, 1945

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/226
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: A series of British Official photographs (Crown Copyright Reserved). They each have the following typewritten caption on the reverse:'The Gold Coast Government believes in rooting its education in the life of the people. Key institutions in the education system of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast are at Tamale and include a senior boarding school for boys and a training college for teachers. The people of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast are first and foremost...
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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Bungalow at Tamale, Christmas 1937, 1937-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 363/4/2
Scope and Contents

127 x 80 mm. group portrait of guests at the family home. Back row left to right: Mr Amory, Mrs Cooper, Captain Cox, Mrs Rake, Mrs Kibbi Jones, Charles and Marjorie Lynn, Mrs Rohr, Mr Parkinson. Front row left to right: Mr Maclean, Dr Armstrong, Beetle [T. Lloyd Williams], Mr Wentworth, Mr Rake, Dr Cooper, Mr Rhor.

Dates: 1937-12
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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Dag. [Dagomba] carrying baby, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/70
Scope and Contents

Stored in negative album envelope number '12'.

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).
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Dag. [Dagomba] children, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/66
Scope and Contents

Stored in negative album envelope number '8'.

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).
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Dag. [Dagomba] girl, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/69
Scope and Contents

Stored in negative album envelope number '11'.

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).
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Dagomba child, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/63
Scope and Contents

Stored in negative album envelope number '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).
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Dhamani Bawku, sixteen year old son of the Chief of Bawku, clearing a six feet pole vault at the school sports, 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/234
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: A series of British Official photographs (Crown Copyright Reserved). They each have the following typewritten caption on the reverse:'The Gold Coast Government believes in rooting its education in the life of the people. Key institutions in the education system of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast are at Tamale and include a senior boarding school for boys and a training college for teachers. The people of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast are first and foremost...
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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Fortune teller: Tamale, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/105
Scope and Contents

Stored in negative album envelope number '61'.

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).
 Sub-Series

Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana] Government's School for senior boys (Tamale, Northern Territories), 1945

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/226-234
Scope and Contents A series of British Official photographs (Crown Copyright Reserved). They each have the following typewritten caption on the reverse:'The Gold Coast Government believes in rooting its education in the life of the people. Key institutions in the education system of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast are at Tamale and include a senior boarding school for boys and a training college for teachers. The people of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast are first and foremost...
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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Grass cutting gang with 2 piece rhythm band, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/110
Scope and Contents

Stored in negative album envelope number '77'.

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).
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Grass cutting gang with 2 piece rhythm band, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/111
Scope and Contents

Stored in negative album envelope number '78'.

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).
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[House building class, Tamale School, Northern Territories, c.1945], 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/230
Scope and Contents

Showing a group of students laying the cement foundations for a circular stone house under the supervision of the masonry master. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'With a view to students improving their farming and home life on leaving school, the construction of new types of compounds and farm building is taught. Some of the young builders at work, supervised by the masonry master (centre)'.

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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King's Birthday, Tamale, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/60
Scope and Contents

Saluting base with parade approaching from left. Stored in negative album envelope number '1'.

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).
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King's Birthday, Tamale, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/61
Scope and Contents

Parade moving from right. Stored in negative album envelope number '2'.

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).
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King's Birthday, Tamale, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/62
Scope and Contents

Parade moving from right. Stored in negative album envelope number '3'.

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).
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Market woman, Tamale, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/64
Scope and Contents

Stored in negative album envelope number '5'.

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).
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Market woman, Tamale, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/65
Scope and Contents

Stored in negative album envelope number '6'.

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).
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Ox cart. Kpong, Tamale, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448K/67
Scope and Contents

Stored in negative album envelope number '9'.

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).
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[Painting a mural, Tamale School, Northern Territories, c.1945], 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/227
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: A series of British Official photographs (Crown Copyright Reserved). They each have the following typewritten caption on the reverse:'The Gold Coast Government believes in rooting its education in the life of the people. Key institutions in the education system of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast are at Tamale and include a senior boarding school for boys and a training college for teachers. The people of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast are first and foremost...
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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[Ploughing lessons, Tamale School, Northern Territories, c.1945], 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/232
Scope and Contents

The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'Farming is the main object of the school. The special farm manager instructing Akamjambudai, son of the chief of Kanjarga, to plough with a bullock team'.

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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Tamale market, 1957 - 1961

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448G/86-89
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A collection of prints and negatives chiefly taken by Frank E. Joselin while on the staff of Achimota College, Ghana, between Jan. 1930 and Nov. 1947. This material falls into five groups: aerial views of Achimota taken in Jan.1931, later views including some taken from the tower, scenes following the Accra earthquake of 23 June 1939, the visit of the Asantehene in 1946, and portraits of the college’s first principal Rev. Alexander Garden Fraser and Assistant Vice Principal J.E.K. Aggrey. ...
Dates: 1957 - 1961
Conditions Governing Access: Missing.
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The potters art is not forgotten. Alhassan Yakubugoa of Wa at the potters wheel, 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/229
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: A series of British Official photographs (Crown Copyright Reserved). They each have the following typewritten caption on the reverse:'The Gold Coast Government believes in rooting its education in the life of the people. Key institutions in the education system of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast are at Tamale and include a senior boarding school for boys and a training college for teachers. The people of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast are first and foremost...
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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The Principle [sic] of the school, Mr. W.T. Marbell, is an all-round sports-man and his prowess at cricket is known all over the Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana], 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/233
Scope and Contents

The typwritten caption on the reverse reads 'Three times picked to represent the Colony, he is the subject of much hero worship from the boys. Here he is giving a few tips in batting to some of the senior boys'.

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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Twelve year old Hamadu Perisi in the blacksmith shop, 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/228
Scope and Contents

The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'Students are taught to make and repair their own farm implements'.

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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Wumbei Bimbila, son of the chief of Bimbila, is already a skilled mason, 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/231
Scope and Contents

Showing Wumbei Bimbila constructing a masonry house wall.

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).