Palapye (inhabited place)
Subject
Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
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Huts at Palapye, 1890
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052A/145
Scope and Contents
Showing thatched huts within a wooden enclosure at Palapye.
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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Khama’s huts, Palagye, 1890
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052A/144
Scope and Contents
Showing a group of Africans and an unidentified European (also seen in Y3052A/146 and possibly connected with the telegraph service) standing in front of two of Chief Khama’s (or Kgama) thatched huts which are enclosed by decorated mud walls. Khama (c. 1830-1923) became a Christian in 1850 and Chief in 1875. He settled at Shoshong where for many years he worked with James Davidson Hepburn the LMS missionary (see Y3052A/147). He moved his capital to Palapye in 1889 and this accounts for the...
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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Near the Rev. Hepburn’s, Palapye, 1890
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052A/147
Scope and Contents
Showing the LMS missionary Rev. James Davidson Hepburn and an unidentified European standing in front of the waterfall in the wooded gorge near Hepburn’s house at Palapye. Photograph probably taken October 1890.
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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Telegraph and Post Office, Palapye, 1890
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052A/146
Scope and Contents
Showing a group of six Europeans gathered in front of the small corrugated-iron Telegraph and Post Office at Palapye with an enclosure of thatched huts in the background. The group of men, all unidentified, are probably in BSA Co. service.
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).