Opobo (inhabited place)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
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[Cocoa warehouse, ?Opobo], 1912 - 1913
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043O/10
Scope and Contents
210 x 161 mm. Showing the scene in a cocoa warehouse. In the foreground, a group of African labourers are seated on full sacks of cocoa while beyond, another group is in the process of filling the bags from the large pile of beans heaped against the wall.
Dates:
1912 - 1913
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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[Durbar or regatta at Opobo], 1912 - 1913
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043O/16
Scope and Contents
165 x 118 mm. Mounted on card. Showing a large canoe decorated with flags (one of which reads 'Opobo') and with an unidentified chief standing beneath a large umbrella. The occasion has not been identified.
Dates:
1912 - 1913
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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[Durbar or regatta at Opobo], 1912 - 1913
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043O/17
Scope and Contents
210 x 161 mm. Mounted on card. Similar to Y3043O/16 but a more distant view including several other canoes.
Dates:
1912 - 1913
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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[General stores, ?Opobo], 1912 - 1913
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043O/9
Scope and Contents
210 x 161 mm. Showing two Europeans and a number of white-coated African assistants standing in a large corrugated-iron store or warehouse. Piled around them are boxes, sacks and barrels of miscellaneous produce, with bottles and cans stored on shelves around the walls. The identification of the location as Opobo is tentative and relies on the fact that the name is written on one of the supporting girders of the building. Opobo, situated 40 miles east-south-east of Port Harcourt at the...
Dates:
1912 - 1913
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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[Palm oil warehouse, ?Opobo], 1912 - 1913
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043O/11
Scope and Contents
209 x 160 mm. A view looking along a warehouse filled with rows of barrels of palm oil awaiting transportation. With a few African labourers watching the photographer in the foreground.
Dates:
1912 - 1913
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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[Unidentified building, ?Opobo], 1912 - 1913
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043O/12
Scope and Contents
210 x 163 mm. A view looking down from a hillside on to a large, two-storey, verandahed building, possibly at Opobo.
Dates:
1912 - 1913
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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[Unidentified interior, ?Opobo], 1912 - 1913
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043O/13
Scope and Contents
210 x 162 mm. Showing a verandah room laid out with a table and chairs in an unidentified house.
Dates:
1912 - 1913
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).