James Hutchison Cockburn slide collection

Collection of twenty glass negatives, twenty-one small photographs and six colour slides, numbered with Roman Numerals, mostly of people in Africa. A handwritten note by James Cockburn accompanying the collection identifies images I, II, III, and IV as taken by himself, and V, VI, VII and VIII as given to him. The note continues: 'I have just discovered these plates. I have marked the eight which I can identify (some with a question mark). Most of the plates were presented to me when in Africa in 1916/1917.'

The Rev'd James Hutchison Cockburn was born in 29 October 1882 and died 20 June 1973. He was a chaplain in World War I in German East Africa, British East Africa, Uganda and Zanzibar.

Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

Donated to the Royal Commonwealth Society, presumably, post 1963, by the Oxford Colonial Records Project, Rhodes House Library.

Includes index.

A catalogue of the collection can be found on ArchiveSearch.

Good to fair condition, one glass slide has shattered and some attempt to repair it with tape has been made.

Oxford Colonial Records Project, Rhodes House Library hold a collection of Rev'd Cockburn's postcards of East Africa (presented in 1963).

This collection level description was entered by WS.

Cockburn, James Hutchison, 1882-1973, clergyman