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Butha-Buthe (national district)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

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A sister with a patient in a ward of Butha Buthe [i.e. Butha-Buthe] Mission Hospital, 1963-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30547A/14
Scope and Contents

200 x 157 mm. Showing an African sister standing beside a patient's bed in the mission hospital.

Dates: 1963-07
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).
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Basuto home (kraal), 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305O/89
Scope and Contents

200 x145 mm. The caption continues: 'Surrounded by a screen made of reeds and poles, also surrounded by a slightly raised platform of clay. All spotlessly clean. Butha Buthe.' Although uncredited in this album, an identical photograph credited to [Lucy] Mignon Herring is held in an album at the Killie Campbell Africana Library under the reference Album D34/001-197. Basutoland Customs.BRN 310846.

Dates: 1941
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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[Basuto kraal], 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305O/90
Scope and Contents 199 x 149 mm. The caption beneath the print reads: ' Part of the courtyard on the other side of the screen in the last picture [Y305O/89]. The walls of the hut are decorated, the pattern being made by the women's fingers. The ground is covered by clay. A grain basket is on the left. Near Butha Buthe. 1941.' Although uncredited in this album, an identical photograph credited to [Lucy] Mignon Herring is held in an album at the Killie Campbell Africana Library under the reference Album...
Dates: 1941
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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Basuto women returning from the fields, 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305O/99
Scope and Contents

155 x 198 mm. The caption continues: ' with baskets of dung which will be used for fuel. Near Butha Buthe. 1941.' Although uncredited in this album, an identical photograph credited to [Lucy] Mignon Herring is held in an album at the Killie Campbell Africana Library under the reference Album D34/001-197. Basutoland Customs.BRN 310846.

Dates: 1941
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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Sisters at the entrance of Butha Buthe [i.e. Butha-Buthe] Mission Hospital, 1963-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30547A/13
Scope and Contents

153 x 179 mm. Showing three nuns standing at the entrance of the Butha Buthe Mission Hospital in northern Lesotho, with a range of hills in the background.

Dates: 1963-07
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).