Bagamoyo (inhabited place)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
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[At the new Deutsch-ostafrikanischen Gesellschaft customs shed in Bagamoyo after the arrival of an ivory caravan, 1890], 1890
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305D/96
Scope and Contents
194 x 145 mm. Showing a group of German D.O.G. employees, Arabs and Indians (a parsee among them) standing in front of the customs shed with large piles of elephant tusks, graded according to size, lying on the ground around them. The caption is taken from Meinecke (1899) where the photograph is reproduced as a woodcut with the following explanation (roughly translated):'Many millions of marks of ivory produce was shipped to Zanzibar through the old customs port at Bagamoyo. The caravans...
Dates:
1890
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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Group at Bagamayo, 1909, 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469A/116
Scope and Contents
90 x 128 mm. A postcard original photograph sent by Carl Unger to his family at Amani. The print shows an unidentified group of Europeans seated on a flight of stone steps leading down from the verandah of a house.
Dates:
1909
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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[Ivory traders], 1880 - 1889
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305D/83
Scope and Contents
279 x 214 mm. Showing two Europeans in white uniforms standing among piles of elephant tusks, with groups of Swahili labourers posed around them holding up tusks. Location unknown, possibly Dar es Salaam or Bagamoyo.
Dates:
1880 - 1889
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).