Album of carbon prints, originally belonging to Sir Leander Starr Jameson and has his signature. The album contains the results of William Ellerton Fry's work documenting the British South Africa Company's occupation of Mashonaland. It is not known how many copies of this album were produced; fewer than twenty are known to survive. The photographs were reproduced in smaller format but with some introductory matter, by Books of Zimbabwe, Bulawayo in 1982. It may be noted that this gives further variants to the identifications noted under plates 2 and 3. The captions have been used as titles and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. They have been retained to reflect the context of their creation.



The photographs include group photographs of the key participants (Ellerton Fry is pictured in Y3052A/2), and the route of the column from Macloutsie in Bechuanaland [Botswana], crossing the river Tuli in Matabeleland, the establishment of Fort Tuli [Thuli], crossing the Umzingwane [Mzingwane], Nuanetsi [Mwenezi] and Lundi [Lunde] rivers towards Great Zimbabwe, the establishment of Fort Victoria [Masvingo], the establishment of Fort Charter in Mashonaland, crossing the Hunyani River and the establishment of Fort Salisbury [Harare].