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Kasai (river)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

 Item

Black Buffalo heads, Middle Kasai River, Belgian Congo [i.e. Congo], 1907, 1907

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/58
Scope and Contents

120 x 168 mm. A view showing two buffalo skulls, shot by A.E.H. Reid and C.A. Reid. A.E.H. Reid was a prospector-in-chief for a mining company in the Congo (in 1914); his brother, C.A. Reid, was manager of the Babayru Gold mines. Photograph by one of the Reid brothers.

Dates: 1907
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

Christy collection of photographs on Africa

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A
Scope and Contents Contains loose photographs relating to various of Christy's travels; some photographs are his own and some are by professional photographers. Subjects include: scenes on the Nile including pyramids; railway views in Kenya; rubber trees and cultivation in Nigeria, Uganda and the Cameroons; scenes in the Congo including sufferers of sleeping sickness and ethnic groups of Central Africa of shorter than average height described as Pygmies; scenes in India; scenes from travels in Norway,...
Dates: 1880 - 1913
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).