The notebook series have 7 Sub-Series and 37 Notebooks comprising 689 images. They are handwritten notebooks covering various topics of the functioning of Idayakottai Zamin. It contain the following topics, Acquittance Roll, Complaint, Disposal List of Papers, Land Account, Minutes Book, Temple ...
The registers series have 20 Sub-Series and 136 registers comprising 6317 images. They are handwritten registers covering various topics of the functioning of Idayakottai Zamin. It contain the following topics, Cash Book, Chitta Receipt, Current, D Disposal, Darghast, Day Book, Despatch, Farm la...
A series of Building Permit Folders held by the Accra Town Council, under the Town Ordinance of 1892. A typical Building Permit Folder contains application documents, approval documents, architectural drawings and other supporting material such as letters.
Building Permit Folders under Accra Building Regulations 1930
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A series of Building Permit Folders held by the Accra Town Council, Accra Building Regulations 1930. A typical Building Permit Folder contains application documents, approval documents, architectural drawings and other supporting material such as letters.
Building Permit Folders under Accra Building Regulations 1944
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A series of Building Permit Folders held by the Accra Town Council, Accra Building Regulations 1944. A typical Building Permit Folder contains application documents, approval documents, architectural drawings and other supporting material such as letters.
A set of hard-cover note books used to record the progress of research programmes carried out on a certain telescope. During this period of Boyden’s history, photography was the principal method of detecting and recording information. Typically, a piece of glass was coated with a photographic em...
A collection of mounted images most probably used to illustrate lectures and to disseminate news. The slides are a mix of original material from Boyden Observatory and commercially-available reproductions. The bulk of the material consists of reproductions of plates taken at Boyden Observatory (...
The majority of the material dates from the 1930s, and the 1950s. 2 images were taken in the 1970s and 1 in 1994. Several of the prints are from glass plate negatives held in the collection and described elsewhere. Themes in this series include the Observatory site and its development, views of ...
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...