Catalogue of the papers of J. Cameron

Reference code: GB-0033-SAD
Title: J. Cameron
Dates of creation: 1910-1948
Extent: 1 box
Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections
Created by: J. Cameron
Language: English

John Cameron

(1888-1969)


	1920-1928	District Traffic Inspector, Wad Medani, Sudan Government Railways
	1929-1930	District Traffic Inspector, Atbara, Sudan Government Railways
	1930	District Traffic Inspector, Wad Medani, Sudan Government Railways
	1931	District Traffic Inspector, Khartoum Central, Sudan Government Railways
	1932	District Traffic Inspector, Gedaref, Sudan Government Railways
	1932-1941	District Traffic Manager, Atbara, Sudan Government Railways
	1934	Awarded Order of the Nile, 5th class

Arrangement

1. Material relating to Sudan Government Railways

2. Personal Material

3. Photographic Material

4. Maps

5. Printed Material

Accession details

Presented by Dr K. J. Cameron, 1972

Catalogue

1. Material relating to Sudan Government Railways

SAD.589/2/1

1940 Sep 19
Typescript copy of Berber Local Train timetable, issued by the District Traffic Manager's Office, Atbara

SAD.589/2/2-3

1941 Apr 15
Note of alteration to Sudan Railways working timetable, issued by the Traffic Manager's Office, Atbara

SAD.589/2/4-10

[Before 1942]
Notes on times of arrival and departure of trains in Atbara region

2. Personal Papers

SAD.589/3/1-18

1910 Sep 24-1941 Aug 20
Papers relating to Cameron's employment with the Sudan Government Railways, including testimonials from former employers, employment contract (1920), congratulations on promotion (1933) and on the Order of the Nile (1934), article in El Nil on Cameron's retirement (1941), with translation, and letter of appreciation to Cameron on his retirement from C.L.S. Dibben, Traffic Manager, Atbara

SAD.589/4/1-3

1920-1943
Passports issued to Cameron 1920, 1930 and 1940, each containing a photograph

SAD.589/5/1

1936 Dec
Christmas card from Cameron at Atbara to his mother, containing photograph of a saqiyah

SAD.589/5/2

1948 Jan 26
Reprint of letter to The Times from Sir Robert Howe, Governor-General, appealing for funds for a cathedral hall and social centre in Khartoum

SAD.589/5/3

[ca. 1940s]
Diagram illustrating the organisation of Khartoum Cathedral Unity Centre

SAD.589/3/19-20

1969 Jan 28
Letter of condolence from Robert M. Cummins to Cameron's son Kenneth on the death of his father, containing reminiscences of his father's service with Sudan Railways

SAD.589/3/21

2012
Biographical note on J. Cameron by his son, Dr K.J. Cameron

3. Photographic Material

SAD.589/5/4-10

[ca. 1920s]
Booklet entitled Souvenir d'Egypte, containing black and white postcards:

SAD.589/5/6

[ca. 1920s]
El Patrane village, close to the pyramids

SAD.589/5/7

[ca. 1920s]
Houses on the bank of the Nile

SAD.589/5/8,10

[ca. 1920s]
Camel caravan in the desert

SAD.589/5/9

[ca. 1920s]
Feluccas on the Nile

SAD.589/8/1-5

[ca. 1920-1925]
Photographs of the construction of Sennar Dam:

SAD.589/8/1

[1920-1925]
Sennar Dam under construction, showing the east bank

SAD.589/8/2

[1920-1925]
Sennar Dam under construction, showing the view from the west bank to the island

SAD.589/8/3

[1920-1925]
Sennar Dam under construction, showing the dam wall from the west bank to the island

SAD.589/8/4

[1920-1925]
Sennar Dam under construction, showing the view from the dam wall looking up river

SAD.589/8/5

[1920-1925]
Sennar Dam under construction, showing the dam wall on the west bank

SAD.589/6/1-4

[ca. 1921-1941]
Photographs of Cameron in various locations:

SAD.589/6/1

[ca. 1940]
Passport portrait of Cameron, taken when he was District Traffic Manager, Atbara

SAD.589/6/2

[ca. 1921-1941]
Cameron standing outside his bungalow

SAD.589/6/3

1941
Guests at a retirement party for Cameron (standing fourth from left)

SAD.589/6/4

1927-1941
R. L. Hill and Cameron, District Traffic Manager, on board a river launch travelling from Kareima to Merowe

SAD.589/7/1-24

[ca. 1921-1941]
Photographs of Sudan Government railway stations and rolling stock:

SAD.589/7/1

[1929-1941]
Cameron standing in front of the church saloon carriage, no. 19, probably Northern Province

SAD.589/7/2

[1921-1941]
Cameron standing next to a trolley car on a railway line, probably Northern Province

SAD.589/7/3-4

[1921-1941]
Man standing at Zeidab railway station

SAD.589/7/5

[1921-1941]
Flowers and saplings planted at Hudi railway station

SAD.589/7/6

[1921-1941]
View of Gebeit railway station

SAD.589/7/7

[1921-1941]
Plants and shrubs at Berber railway station

SAD.589/7/8

[1921-1941]
Gebeit railway station

SAD.589/7/9

[1921-1941]
View of Atbara railway station

SAD.589/7/10

[1921-1941]
View of Wad Banaqa railway station, with an advertisement for Huntley & Palmer's biscuits on the wall of the station building

SAD.589/7/11

[1921-1941]
View of Shendi railway station, with advertisements for Maple & Co. furniture and Dunlop on the wall of the station building

SAD.589/7/12,16

[1921-1941]
Views of Ed Damer railway station

SAD.589/7/13

[1921-1941]
Freight train at Atbara railway station

SAD.589/7/14

[1921-1941]
Sign at Ed Damer railway station reading “S. R. Ed Damer Long Live the Governor General”

SAD.589/7/15

[1921-1941]
View of Abu Hamed railway station

SAD.589/7/17

[1921-1941]
View of Sinkat railway station

SAD.589/7/18

[1931-1935]
Sudan Government Railways staff, including A.D. Somervail, District Engineer, bathing in a pool at Kassala railway station

SAD.589/7/19

[1921-1941]
Freight train at a railway station, possibly Kassala

SAD.589/7/20

[1921-1941]
Small garden at a railway station, probably Northern Province

SAD.589/7/21

[1921-1941]
Man standing at a railway station, probably Northern Province

SAD.589/7/22-23

[1921-1941]
Man standing in front of rolling stock at a railway station, probably Northern Province

SAD.589/7/24

[1921-1941]
Cameron standing in front of railway car no. 416, probably Northern Province

SAD.589/9/1-21

[ca. 1921-1941]
Photographs taken by Cameron, mostly Northern Sudan and Egypt:

SAD.589/9/1

[1939-1941]
Railway train transporting war material from Kentara, near the Suez Canal, to a dump

SAD.589/9/2

[1921-1941]
Camel laden with fodder

SAD.589/9/3

[1921-1941]
Man, possibly Cameron, standing in front of a thatched shelter

SAD.589/9/4

[1921-1941]
Gordon gate, Suakin

SAD.589/9/5

[1921-1941]
Sham's house, Suakin

SAD.589/9/6

[1921-1941]
View of Suakin from the mainland

SAD.589/9/7

[1921-1928]
Kitchener gate, Suakin

SAD.589/9/8

[1921-1941]
Children chasing a swarm of locusts off the ground

SAD.589/9/9

[1921-1941]
Ruins on a bank of the Nile, Egypt

SAD.589/9/10

[1921-1941]
Cataract Hotel overlooking the Nile at Aswan

SAD.589/9/11

[1921-1941]
View of Aswan, with the Cataract Hotel on the far right

SAD.589/9/12

[1921-1941]
Shops and stalls at a suq in Egypt

SAD.589/9/13

[1921-1941]
Feluccas moored on the Nile at sunset, possibly Khartoum

SAD.589/9/14

[1921-1941]
House in Suakin

SAD.589/9/15

[1921-1941]
Feluccas sailing in the distance

SAD.589/9/16

[1921-1941]
Two men in a rowing boat

SAD.589/9/17

[1921-1941]
View of the causeway leading to the Gordon gate, the entrance to Suakin

SAD.589/9/18

[1921-1941]
Camel-driven saqiyah, probably Egypt

SAD.589/9/19

[1921-1941]
Town on the Nile, possibly Aswan

SAD.589/9/20

[1921-1941]
Group of Sudanese and British men with two men on camelback

SAD.589/9/21

[1921-1941]
Triumphal arch on European street

SAD.508/18/1

1931 Mar 17
Large mounted photograph of Sudan Government Railways Traffic Department, Khartoum Central staff group, featuring F. H. G. Haldwell, Divisional Traffic Superintendent (Southern Division), H. I. Davidson, District Traffic Manager and J. Cameron, District Traffic Inspector (seated fifth from left). Photographer: A. Kazandjian

SAD.508/19/1

[ca. 1940]
Large mounted photograph of Sudan Government Railways Traffic Department staff group, featuring Cameron, District Traffic Manager (seated centre), probably Atbara

SAD.999/4/1-55

[ca. 1920-1941]
Digital copies of black and white photographs still in the possession of the Cameron family; mostly photographs of Cameron:

SAD.999/4/1

[ca.1920-1931]
John Cameron's bungalow, Gedaref, 1920-31

SAD.999/4/2

[ca. 1920-1941]
Aswan suq

SAD.999/4/3

[ca.1923]
View of the waterfront at Port Said

SAD.999/4/4

[ca. 1920-1941]
L. to R.: Cameron, Sleigh and C.R. Harvey on the verandah of Cameron's house

SAD.999/4/5-7

[ca. 1921-1941]
Cameron in fancy dress

SAD.999/4/8

[ca. 1920-1941]
Cameron relaxing on bungalow verandah

SAD.999/4/9

[ca.1920s]
Cameron drinking beer on bungalow verandah

SAD.999/4/10

[ca.1920-1941]
Cameron having a haircut, on bungalow verandah

SAD.999/4/11

[ca.1920-1941]
Cameron playing table tennis on bungalow verandah

SAD.999/4/12

[ca.1920-1941]
Cameron at an unknown station

SAD.999/4/13

[ca.1920-1941]
Cameron in garden on the river bank at Wadi Halfa, taken in December

SAD.999/4/14

[ca.1920-1941]
Cameron on horseback, with Sudanese syce

SAD.999/4/15

[ca.1920-1941]
23.Cameron on horseback, location unknown

SAD.999/4/16-17

[ca.1920-1941]
Cameron's service saloon

SAD.999/4/18

[ca.1920-1941]
Shendi station

SAD.999/4/19-20

[ca.1920-1941]
Unidentified stations in the Sudan

SAD.999/4/21

[ca.1920-1941]
Saqiyah

SAD.999/4/22

[ca.1929-1930]
Trip to Abu Sir; John Cameron in centre

SAD.999/4/23

[ca.1929-1930]
Party on top of Abu Sir rock

SAD.999/4/24

[ca.1929-1930]
Trip to Abu Sir; Cameron (right) and companion on camelback

SAD.999/4/25

[ca.1929-1930]
Trip to Abu Sir; Cameron (right) and friends on top of the rock

SAD.999/4/26

[ca. 1930]
Cameron (right), possibly with R.L. Hill

SAD.999/4/27

[ca. 1932-1941]
Cameron beside a tukl

SAD.999/4/28-32

[ca.1932-1941]
Cameron in his garden at Atbara

SAD.999/4/33-34

[ca.1932-1941]
Cameron in his garden at Atbara, with hospital extension in the background

SAD.999/4/35

[ca.1932-1941]
Cameron, probably at Erkowit

SAD.999/4/36

[ca.1932-1941]
Cameron on the roof of his bungalow at Atbara

SAD.999/4/37

[ca.1932-1941]
Cameron putting in his garden at Atbara

SAD.999/4/38

[ca.1932-1941]
Cameron relaxing in his garden at Atbara

SAD.999/4/39-40

[ca.1932-1941]
Cameron's bungalow at Atbara

SAD.999/4/41-42

[ca.1932-1941]
Cameron's garden at Atbara

SAD.999/4/43

[ca.1932-1941]
Unknown friend in Cameron's bungalow at Atbara

SAD.999/4/44

[ca.1932-1941]
Turkeys in Cameron's garden at Atbara

SAD.999/4/45

[ca.1939-1941]
Servants digging an air raid shelter in Cameron's garden in preparation against Italian air raids

SAD.999/4/46-47

1941
Retirement party in Cameron's garden at Atbara

SAD.999/4/48

[ca.1941]
Cameron (left) & F.G. Woodall, Superintendent of Motor Transport, Atbara, taken in Cape Town immediately after Cameron's retirement

SAD.999/4/49

[ca.1920-1941]
Cameron's Sudan Government Railways badge, still in the possession of the Cameron family

SAD.999/4/50-51

[ca. 1926]
Commemorative Sennar Dam paper weight, produced by Pearsons, the contractors who worked on the project and presented to those who contributed to the successful completion of the work, including Cameron. Still in the possession of the Cameron family.

SAD.999/4/52-55

1941
Silver filigree cigarette case, inscribed in Ebglish and Arabic, presented to Cameron on his retirement. Still in the possession of the Cameron family.

4. Maps

SAD.589/2/12

1938
Standard railway map of South Africa (Pretoria)
scale: 1 : 3,500,000
Size: 101 x 75 cm

SAD.589/2/13

[ca. 1942-1943]
Tourist map showing Kenya and Uganda railway routes on a Kenya and Uganda Railways and Harbours menu card

5. Printed Material

SAD.589/1/1-36

1939
Annotated copy of Sudan Railways Time tables of trains and steamers. November 1st 1939 until further notice, (Atbara, 1939)

SAD.589/2/11

[Before 1942]
Sudan Government Railways and Steamers, Plans and illustrations of river craft and rolling stock, (London)