Collection Area: Endangered Archives Programme / Subject: Indigenous populations - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1190/1/7
Title:: Photographic Plates
Scope & Content:: 255 photographic glass plate negatives (gelatin dry plates), stored in 23 original plate boxes, haphazardly arranged. All appear to be original plates, mostly exposed in the early 1930s. About half (127) show buildings, telescopes, instruments and people at Boyden Observatory, South Africa, most...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1891-1994
Extent:: 255

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1190/1/7/11
Title:: Boyden Plate Box 21: People in traditional dress.
Scope & Content:: A collection of group photos of people, at Boyden Observatory and elsewhere, and 1 unidentified landscape image. Some of the group photos show people in formal wear, and in relation to a bride or groom. Most people are unidentified. A faded pencilled note on the plate box reads: "Natives". n/a....
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1891-1994
Extent:: 19

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1222/1
Title:: Jaffna Bishop’s House Manuscript Collection
Scope & Content:: This collection consists of documents and manuscripts (including some typed letters and some printed documents) dating from the period 1750 to 1950. They reflect the history of the Roman Catholic missions in Ceylon or describe the day to day administrative and managerial activities of the Oblate...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Dutch, English, French, Latin, Portuguese, and Tamil
Date Range:: 1775-1948
Extent:: 110642

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1222/1/6/11
Title:: [Draft copy of a memorial sent to Rome by senior native priests of the Jaffna Diocese. Could be related to Fr. Gnanapragasar OMI. Probably from the 1930s. ]
Scope & Content:: Extent: 1 set containing 24 pages. Size and dimensions of original material: H-33.5cm, W-21cm, D-0.3cm.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1930s
Extent:: 504

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1222/1/18
Title:: Series 18 - Miscellaneous letters and documents: after 1918 (period after Mgr. Joulain and until 1948)
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: French, Italian, Latin, Sinhalese, Spanish, and Tamil
Date Range:: 1775-1948
Extent:: 74

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1222/1/18/89
Title:: [A set of variegated documents put together: a French copy dated 1887 of Mgr. Brault's French birth certificate; an undated typewritten copy of a Memorial of Native Priests to the Pope Pius; and an undated typewritten copy of a letter relating the criminal burning of a church at Manipay. A few other documents are annexed. The typewritten documents probably date from the 1930s]
Scope & Content:: Extent: 1 set containing 102 pages. Size and dimensions of original material: H-36.5cm,W-22.5cm,D-0.7cm.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1887-1939
Extent:: 478

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1231/1
Title:: Nyasaland Districts Administration Reports
Scope & Content:: This collection contains 16 annual reports by district councils in the British colonial territory of Nyasaland [Malawi]. They report government activities and developmental events in each district. Custodial history: The reports were created by district councils. They are now kept by National A...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1934-1935
Extent:: 1057 TIFF images

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