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Ghana

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
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Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

Church of Scotland Slide and Visual Collection

 Fonds
Identifier: CSWC 47
Scope and Contents The collection consists of: (1) Lantern slides and glass plate negatives of: China (Charles Somerville collection, Dugald Christie); Africa (Malawi, Zambia, Kenya, Nigeria); India; and Jamaica. Most sets come with indexes and commentaries and date from late 19th century to early-mid twentieth century. (2) Slides (35 mm) of: Africa (Malawi, Zambia, Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan and Egypt); Far East (including Taiwan and Hong Kong); Holy Land; Middle East; India (including Western...
Dates: 19th century-20th century

Gannia cow. Wasna, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/97
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a Gannia [Ghanian?] cow in the Wasna [Wassa?] region, on a tether held by a man with measurments of the cow beneath the photograph.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Papers of Colin Forrester-Paton (1918-2004) and Jean Forrester-Paton (1917-1998)

 Fonds
Identifier: CSWC 37
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of: items relating to the Church in Ghana including the role of the Church of Scotland Mission, the Presbyterian Church and the Christian Council and in particular to the Church's relation to society and government on issues such as education, marriage and Ghanaian traditions; papers on Church Union; material relating to the Christian Council of Ghana's Committee on Christian Marriage and Family Life; and Ghanaian newspapers.

Dates: 1939-1994

Papers of Colin Legum

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-693
Scope and Contents This collection comprises the papers of Colin Legum, an Anti-Apartheid activist and political exile, and later newpaper political correspondent. It includes correspondence files, committee minutes, freelance articles, files in legal document wallets labelled alphabetically, office filing, published periodicals, journals, research files, press cuttings, notes, publications, and newspapers relating to the post-colonial history of many countries mostly in Africa, but also in the Middle East and...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1950s-1970s

Papers of Mark Glasswell (1938-1995)

 Fonds
Identifier: CSWC 30
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of: personal items relating to Glasswell's career (1964-1992); correspondence with students and colleagues in Africa (1966-1985); papers, articles and sermons on theology and on religion in Africa (c 1967-1984); and material on the North German Mission to West Africa, with correspondence with Rudolph Bultmann (c 1920-1969).

Dates: [ca. 1920]-1992

Records and Papers relating to the French West Africa Company (CFAO)

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-444
Scope and Contents

The material consists of the correspondence and papers of Messrs. Donnison and Edwards, Castle Street, Liverpool, who appear to have been legal agents for CFAO. The items are mainly about property in Lagos Oshogbo, and Port Harcourt in Nigeria, Sekondi and Cape Coast Castle in Ghana, and Freetown in Sierra Leone. There is also material related to litigation in the matter of captured German vessels and personnel.

Dates: 1900-1924

Records of the West Africa Committee

 Fonds — Box Gen.836
Identifier: Coll-513
Scope and Contents

The records are composed of: agenda, minutes and reports of quarterly London meetings, and special monthly reports on Ghana and Nigeria, 1962-1965. There is one report on Sierra Leone, April 1965.

Dates: 1962-1965

Two Year Old White Fulani Bull, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/758
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a two year old White Fulani bull 'born and bred on the Department of Animal Health Livestock Farm near Accra, Gold Coast in the 1940s.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

White Fulani and N'Dama Crossed Bull, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/775
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a White Fulani and N'Dama crossed three year old bull used to improve the dwarf cattle stock in the lagoon area of Keta and Ada in the 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

White Fulani Zebu Stud Bull, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/774
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a White Fulani type of Zebu stud bull in a paddock at the Department of Animal Health Livestock Farm in Accra, Gold Coast, West Africa [Ghana] in the 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s