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222 x 293 mm.

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252 x 202 mm. Probably taken on 11 Oct. Names of participants are listed on the back.

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100 x 155 mm.

Scope and Contents A set of 13 photographs illustrating a mural on the theme 'Commonwealth Activity under the Colombo Plan'. It was commissioned by the Duke of Devonshire, and designed and executed in 1929 by Beatrice (Lady) Murray. It was painted in the vestibule of the Craven Street entrance to the RCS Headquarters, extended down the staircase to the Commonwealth Hall, a venue which made photography difficult on account of awkward angles and lighting. These colour photographs were taken by D.H. Simpson in...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This is a collection of art work created by the Royal Engineer Edward Charles Frome (1802-1890). In 1929 Frome’s surviving daughter, Mrs Frank Wynne, presented some of the South Australian drawings to the Royal Empire Society through the good offices of Sir Harry Wilson, to whom she bequeathed the rest of the collection. He presented it to the society in 1931. The majority of Frome’s individual watercolours and drawings, varying in size from 250 to 450 mm, were then housed in eight...

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279 x 89 mm. A panoramic view of the Court of Honour from Congress Hall, Franco-British Exhibition, London.

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115 x 85 mm. From 'United Empire', XXVI, 1935, 314.

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230 x 150 mm black and white photograph showing President Radhakrishnan at Marlborough House, with Smedley and members of the Bombay press.

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242 x 293 mm. (4 copies).

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157 x 204 mm. Showing Professor Salam writing on a blackboard. Professor Salam (born 1926), a scientist of international repute, was appointed Professor of Theoretical Physics at Imperial College in 1956.

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107 x 80 mm.

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115 x 85 mm. ‘United Empire’, XXVI, 1935, 627.

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115 x 85 mm. View of girders etc., looking towards the Embankment. 'United Empire', XXVI, 1935, 529.

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115 x 85 mm. View of rising girder structure, from similar position to that of March. ‘United Empire’, XXVII, 1935, 582.

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115 x 85 mm. 'United Empire’, XXVII, 1936, 220.

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A file containing notes, sketches, newspaper cuttings, correspondence and photographs related to non-literary projects Bell envisaged (circa 40 sheets).

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Each 122 x 96 mm.

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35 mm. transparency.

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Nothing is known of the provenance of this collection of lantern slides and glass plates. The images likely were created to illustrate lectures given at the RCS.

Scope and Contents 154 x 203 mm. This picture shows the Commonwealth Ministers at No. 10 Downing Street. Front row, left to right: Mr. E.A.P. Wijeyeratne, (Ceylon), Mr. H.K. Mahtab, (India), Mr. C.M. Bowden, (New Zealand), Mr. C.D. Howe, (Canada), Mr. Attlee, Mr. J. Mcewen, (Australia), Mr. E.H. Louw, (South Africa), Mr. Chaudhri Nazir Almed Khan, (Pakistan), and Mr. W.A.E. Winterton, (Southern Rhodesia). Standing are left to right: Mr. J. Edwards, Mr. J. Dugdale, Sir Hartley Shawcross, Mr. Richard Stokes, Mr....

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113 x 80 mm. Photocopy from 'Yearbook', 1913.

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209 x 160 mm.

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255 x 205 mm. group photo showing Queen Elizabeth II with Brian Mulroney, Bob Hawke, Margaret Thatcher, Lyndon Pindling, Kenneth Kaunda, Shridath Ramphal, Rajiv Gandhi and Robert Mugabe. This was a follow-up meeting to 1985 to review relations with South Africa.

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Views of the society's Northumberland Ave. headquarters and of some of the branch buildings.

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Collection of black and white press agency and official photographs (including 5 duplicates) relating to developments during 1965-80, from the time of Rhodesia's unilateral declaration of Independence (UDI) until the emergence of the republic of Zimbabwe. Many were collected to illustrate articles in 'Commonwealth in Focus', and some were reproduced in the 'Commonwealth in Focus' exhibition 1982. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found.