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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 552 Collections and/or Records:

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1900-1 Kopje - Salisbury, Rhodesia - Taken from the Civil Service Club, 1900 - 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052C/5
Scope and Contents

A view looking across fields towards the buildings of Salisbury clustered around the wooded kopje on the horizon. Duplicate at Y3052D/2.

Dates: 1900 - 1901
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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).
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1900 Its last days - Railway thro' to Bulawayo 1901. Bulawayo - Salisbury coach discharging mails at Salisbury P.O., 1900 - 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052C/9
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Showing three Europeans (Alexander Russell at left of group) standing in front of the Salisbury-Bulawayo stage coach. With the 'Mikado Tearooms' in the background.

Dates: 1900 - 1901
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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).
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A Bush scene, Xmas Pass, Umtali [Mutare] Rhod., 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052C/19
Scope and Contents

Showing dense bush on a hill side on Xmas Pass.

Dates: 1901
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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).
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A Formal Gesture, 1979-12-21

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/COI/A/433
Scope and Contents

177 x 238 mm. Former Rhodesian premier Bishop Abel Muzorewa (left) and Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington at Lancaster House for the signing of the Rhodesia ceasefire agreement.

Dates: 1979-12-21
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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).
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A Kraal at foot of immense boulder, 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052A/81
Scope and Contents

Showing thatched huts scattered among boulder strewn ground with a steep, smooth rockface in the background. Exact location unknown. Photograph taken in early August.

Dates: 1890
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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).
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A lesson in English at the Epworth Mission, Salisbury [i.e. Harare], 1954 - 1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052G/5
Scope and Contents

Showing an African teacher and pupils during an English lesson.

Dates: 1954 - 1967
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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).
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A Mashona Kraal amongst stones, 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052A/82
Scope and Contents

Showing thatched huts perched on a hillside of huge boulders. Exact location unknown. Photograph taken in early August.

Dates: 1890
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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).
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A Mashona Kraal, Chibi’s Country, 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052A/79
Scope and Contents

Showing the clay and thatch huts of a Mashona village tightly packed among huge granite boulders on a hillside. Exact location unknown. See also Y3052A/63. Photograph taken in early August.

Dates: 1890
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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).
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A Mashona Kraal, Chibi’s Country, 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052A/80
Scope and Contents

A more distant view of a Mashona village, situated in the cleft of a hillside and surrounded by huge granite boulders. Exact location unknown. Photograph taken in early August.

Dates: 1890
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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).
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A picnic party at the Matapos, 1928-07-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 353/2/86
Scope and Contents

Lto R. Major Smith, Mr Voss, Major Gordon, Mr Smailes & Mr Tucker

Dates: 1928-07-09
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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).
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A Rhodesian homestead, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 195/31
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

A series of watercolours commissioned from the Rhodesian artist Mrs Gilbert Stephenson to be used in colouring lantern slides to illustrate the fifth handbook, A.J. Sargent, 'South Africa: seven lectures (London, 1914). Stephenson had been recommended by the British South Africa Company.

Dates: 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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).
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A round Hut at Notwani Station, 1928-07-15

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 353/4/23
Scope and Contents

Print at RCMS 353/2/97.

Dates: 1928-07-15
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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).
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A round Hut at Notwani Station, 1928-07-15

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 353/2/97
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Album of mostly 80 x 54 mm prints. There is a brief list describing items 1-98, which document the trip from Southampton to South Africa, travel in South Africa, and the visit to Southern Rhodesia. Many photos do not appear in the exact numerical order given in the listing. The rest of the images are uncaptioned, but their general locations have been identified by reference to the diary RCMS 353/1.

Dates: 1928-07-15
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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).
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A scene on the Government Farm at Gwebi Near Salisbury, 1928-07-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 353/2/89
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Album of mostly 80 x 54 mm prints. There is a brief list describing items 1-98, which document the trip from Southampton to South Africa, travel in South Africa, and the visit to Southern Rhodesia. Many photos do not appear in the exact numerical order given in the listing. The rest of the images are uncaptioned, but their general locations have been identified by reference to the diary RCMS 353/1.

Dates: 1928-07-11
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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).
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A Solemn and Binding Agreement, 1979-12-21

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/COI/A/434
Scope and Contents

176 x 238 mm. Showing (right to left) guerrilla leaders Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo, Sir Ian Gilmour (Lord Carrington’s deputy), Lord Carrington and Bishop Abel Muzorewa former Rhodesian Premier. Watching (background left to right) Mr Francis Pym, Secretary of State for Defence, and Premier Margaret Thatcher.

Dates: 1979-12-21
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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).
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A view from veranda of hospital just before a storm broke out, 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052F/5
Scope and Contents

A view looking across flat grassland towards distant houses.

Dates: 1914
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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).
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A view in the island of Kandahar, about 8 miles up the river from the Falls, 1928-07-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 353/2/68
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Album of mostly 80 x 54 mm prints. There is a brief list describing items 1-98, which document the trip from Southampton to South Africa, travel in South Africa, and the visit to Southern Rhodesia. Many photos do not appear in the exact numerical order given in the listing. The rest of the images are uncaptioned, but their general locations have been identified by reference to the diary RCMS 353/1.

Dates: 1928-07-08
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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).
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A view of the bridge taken from the western end, 1928-07-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 353/4/15
Scope and Contents

It connects Southern & Northern Rhodesia. It is 650 ft long & 406 ft above L.W.L. (The highest in the world). It is a double cantilever bridge joined in the middle. Print at RCMS 353/2/76.

Dates: 1928-07-08
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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).
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A view of the bridge taken from the western end. It connects Southern & Northern Rhodesia. It is 650 ft long & 406 ft above L.W.L. (The highest in the world). It is a double cantilever bridge joined in the middle, 1928-07-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 353/2/76
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Album of mostly 80 x 54 mm prints. There is a brief list describing items 1-98, which document the trip from Southampton to South Africa, travel in South Africa, and the visit to Southern Rhodesia. Many photos do not appear in the exact numerical order given in the listing. The rest of the images are uncaptioned, but their general locations have been identified by reference to the diary RCMS 353/1.

Dates: 1928-07-08
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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).
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A view of the Main Falls, 1928-07-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 353/2/78
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Album of mostly 80 x 54 mm prints. There is a brief list describing items 1-98, which document the trip from Southampton to South Africa, travel in South Africa, and the visit to Southern Rhodesia. Many photos do not appear in the exact numerical order given in the listing. The rest of the images are uncaptioned, but their general locations have been identified by reference to the diary RCMS 353/1.

Dates: 1928-07-08
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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).
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A view of the Rainbow Falls, 1928-07-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 353/2/79
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Album of mostly 80 x 54 mm prints. There is a brief list describing items 1-98, which document the trip from Southampton to South Africa, travel in South Africa, and the visit to Southern Rhodesia. Many photos do not appear in the exact numerical order given in the listing. The rest of the images are uncaptioned, but their general locations have been identified by reference to the diary RCMS 353/1.

Dates: 1928-07-08
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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).
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Abercorn Street, Bulawayo , 1954 - 1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052G/10
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Collection of loose prints, most mounted on card and measuring approximately 205 x 150 mm with typewritten captions pasted to the mounts. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Prints 3 and 7 are by Ronald D.K. Hadden and British Overseas Airways Corporation (B.O.A.C.) respectively.

Dates: 1954 - 1967
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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).
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Abercorn Street, Bulawayo, 1954 - 1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052G/11
Scope and Contents

Duplicate of Y3052G/10.

Dates: 1954 - 1967
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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).
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Abercorn Street, Bulawayo, 1959 - 1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052H/6
Scope and Contents

A view looking across the street towards the office of the Central African Building Society.

Dates: 1959 - 1967
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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).
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Aerial view of Harare African Hospital and Maternity Home, Salisbury, 1959

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052T/7
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Collection of glossy black and white photographs, taken by the Rhodesian Ministry of Information and other official sources. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Captions supplied by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets.

Dates: 1959
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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).