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20th century

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4882 Collections and/or Records:

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Papers of William Bell

Scripts of musical revues and pantomimes put on in Uganda by William Bell and his friends during the early 1950s, including scores for Babes in the Bush, with photocopies of Uganda Herald reviews of the performances and a photograph of Bell and Peggy Lanning as the Ayah and Child.
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 2239
Extents: 1 folder
Dates: 20th century
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Papers of William Bloomfield Douglas

Xerox copy of diary, originally in 4 volumes, written while Resident of Selangor, Malaya, 1876-1882, with offprint of an article by J.M. Gullick concerning the diary, 1975
Extents: 3 boxes
Dates: 1876-1882, 1975
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Papers of William Borrowdale Tripe

Letters to his parents; reports and memoranda, etc. while a colonial administrator in Tanganyika and including war service in the Middle East. Also, anthropological notes and articles.
Extents: 3 boxes, 1 volume
Dates: 1928-1945
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Papers of William Crawford Heaney

Correspondence, memoranda, reports, printed material, etc., relating to appointment and career as Agricultural Officer in Kenya.
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.s.1669
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1949-1963
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Papers of William E. Stober

Legislative papers, mainly photocopies, relating to the New Hebrides (including the Anglo-French condominium government), 1870-[1980] Records relating to the Joint Court of the New Hebrides, and to settlement and land, 1883-1980; records relating to the British Land Trust Board, 1903-1905, 1963-1994 Records relating to Stober's land assignment, 1911-1982 Minutes,…
Extents: 29 boxes
Dates: 1870-1995
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Papers of William H. Potts, Charles H. N. Jackson and Bernard D. Burtt

The collection mainly consists of papers relating to the work of William Herbert Potts in the Department of Tsetse Research in Shinyanga (includes diaries, correspondence, reports, data, statistics and printed material, 1920s-1950s). Also, letters home (1927-1932) from C.H.N. Jackson, and diaries (1925-1937) of B.D. Burtt.
Extents: 18 boxes
Dates: 1920s-1950s
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Papers of William Harold Ingrams and Sir William Newton

The collection mainly consists of papers (correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, despatches, etc.) relating to Ingrams' administrative service in Mauritius, Gibraltar and Africa. There are also some papers relating to Malaya and the West Indies; press cuttings about the death of Queen Salote in Tonga in 1965; articles collected by Ingrams about the West Indies, India, Ceylon, Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaya, the Philippines and Korea; and a manuscript narrative about the loss of the East India…
Extents: 7 boxes
Dates: 1863-1969
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Papers of William Henry Bliss

Papers of William Henry Bliss
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6821
Extents: 140 Leaves
Dates: 1832-1906, n.d.
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Papers of William Malcolm Hailey, 1st Baron Hailey, relating to tours to America

Papers (correspondence, itineraries, press cuttings, articles, etc.) relating to Hailey's tours to America in December 1942 and November 1944. The papers have been bound into 1 volume.
Shelfmark: MSS.Amer.s.5
Extents: 1 volume
Dates: 1942-1944
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Papers of William McGregor and Isabel Ross (1)

The papers include: diaries of William McGregor Ross, 1890-1939 summary of significant events in the diaries, 1890-1939, compiled by Sylvia R. Ross typescript autobiography, The Memoirs of William McGregor Ross and Isabel Ross, by Isabel Ross, based partly on the diaries, 1958-1962 correspondence of William McGregor Ross and…
Extents: 8 boxes
Dates: [1890-1964]
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Papers of William McGregor and Isabel Ross (2)

Letters from William McGregor Ross to his parents, 1900-1917; correspondence and papers relating to William McGregor Ross's work in the Public Works Department, 1901-1922; personal correspondence and papers of William McGregor and Isabel Ross, 1899-1952; photographs and related papers, [c1894-1931].
Extents: 34 boxes
Dates: [1894-1952]
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Papers of William McGregor and Isabel Ross (3)

Reports and correspondence of and relating to the Public works Department, and other correspondence of William McGregor Ross, 1905-1939; report on the Tana River, Kenya, etc., 1909; draft manuscript of Kenya from within: a short political history by William McGregor Ross (London, Allen & Unwin, 1927); miscellaneous papers, 1900-1935; miscellaneous published reports and papers, including reports on the Uganda Railway, 1899-1929.
Extents: 1 box, 9 volumes
Dates: 1899-1939
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Papers of William McGregor Ross relating to Sir Hiram Maxim and his flying machine

Papers of William McGregor Ross relating to Sir Hiram Maxim and his flying machine.
Shelfmark: MS. 21798
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1892-1939
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Papers of William Northrup McMillan (microfilm)

Scrapbooks of presscuttings, photographs and some letters, mainly covering the period 1914-1918, whilst McMillan was in British East Africa (now Kenya). Microfilm.
Shelfmark: Micr.Afr.641
Extents: 1 item
Dates: 1914-1918
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Papers of William Percival Sawyer

apers of William Percival Sawyer
Extents: 0.20 Linear metres (4 boxes)
Dates: 1915-1976
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Papers of William Pugh relating to police work in Kenya

Papers of William Pugh relating to police work in Kenya.
Shelfmark: MS. 15842
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1929-1953
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Papers of William Sewell de Guibe Rankin, relating to UNESCO

Reminiscences, notes, letters, reports, maps and printed material relating to his service with UNESCO in Liberia and Ethiopia.
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.s.1994
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1952-1958
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Papers of William Sydney Marchant

Papers relating to Marchant's service in the British Solomon Islands (now the Solomon Islands), 1942-1943 (with associated press cuttings); military administration in Tripolitania (now Tripoli) and British Somaliland (now Somalia), 1941-1943, and papers relating to Kenya, 1925, 1946, 1947.
Shelfmark: MSS.Brit.Emp.s.292
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1925-1947
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Papers of William Sydney Marchant

Photographs, press cuttings and other papers relating to colonial service in Kenya, 1919-1938, 1943-1947, and as Resident Commissioner of the Solomon Islands, 1939-1943.
Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 491
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1919-1947
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Papers of William Waldegrave Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne

Proofs of the first draft of The Selborne memorandum, a review of the present mutual relations of the British South African colonies by Palmer. Proofs prepared by L.G. Curtis, 1906. The final printed version of the memorandum was first published in a Cape blue-book and presented in the Cape Parliament, and was subsequently republished by the Colonial Office in July 1907.
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. r. 266
Extents: 1 volume
Dates: 1906