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Kenya

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
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Found in 13 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

Collection of the Rt. Rev. Stanley Booth-Clibborn

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1063
Scope and Contents The collection is composed of: 1 box of circa 20 glass plate negatives of the All Africa Youth Conference, 1960s, village elders, and the Limuru Conference Centre, Kenya 1 file of circa 60 letters relating to the Nigeria / Biafra war, 1969-1970 1 file of correspondence and printed matter relating to the National Council of Churches of Kenya, and NCCK Partners election...
Dates: 1957-1996

Grant's Foal and Grey's Zebra Foal, Tana River, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1052
Scope and Contents

Photograph of two zebra skins: Grant's foal and Grey's Zebra foal from the Tana River area in Kenya in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Lecture on Kenya by David Steel, 1990

 Fonds — Box CSWC Small Collections Box 1
Identifier: CSWC 82

Man-eaters of Tsavo, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/17
Scope and Contents

Illustration of Maasai tribe-members attacking a charging 'man-eating' lion with spears in Tsavo, Kenya, Africa in probably 1898.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Memoir by Robert Macpherson, Kenya, 1982

 Fonds — Box CSWC Small Collections Box 1
Identifier: CSWC 73

Oldham Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: GD2
Scope and Contents The collection contains: Oldham's correspondence (1892-1965) including references to Oldham's conversion and his work in India with the YMCA, to his work to promote co-operation between missions and denominations such as through the 1910 World Missionary Conference, the 1937 Oxford conference and the World Council of Churches, to German missionaries in World War 1 and Germany in the 1930s, to Indian and African (particularly educational and East African) issues, to the establishment of the...
Dates: 1892-1990

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 John William Arthur

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-207
Scope and Contents The collection consists mainly of correspondence and papers (1907-1949) including letters from Arthur to his mother; circular letters and newsletters from the Kikuyu mission; sections from Arthur's diaries and notes on his travels throughout East Africa; reports on missionary conferences; memoranda by Arthur and others on native affairs such as the labour question, land tenure, education and female circumcision; minutes, memoranda and papers of the Kikuyu Association and the Kikuyu Mission...
Dates: 1902-1954