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Showing a European miner lighting a small charge in a stope of the mine.

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Showing a lion approaching a tourist bus in the park.

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Material relating to Sugg's career in Northern Rhodesia, with some later papers.

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A view looking along the river with an unidentified pioneer standing on the bank in the foreground. Photograph taken about August 2nd.

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A view looking along the Lundi towards rapids in the distance with an unidentified pioneer standing on the bank in the foreground. Photograph taken about August 2nd.

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202 x 149 mm. Lord Carrington, the British Foreign Secretary, welcomes Mr Robert Mugabe, one of the leaders of the Patriotic Front delegation at the Constitutional Conference on Rhodesia.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Showing pioneers and African labourers on the bank of the Nuanéteze River. The river offered few difficulties, the drift was made and the river forded by the column on July 28th 1890. See also Y3052B/15.

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Showing members of the advance party constructing a drift across the Hunyani River at a point where the watercourse is divided into two streams separated by a sandbank. Photograph taken on September 10th.

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Showing the dam reservoir with Mount Inyanga in the background.

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Papers and photographs related to Barnard's life and work in Nigeria and subsequent travels in Africa.

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A slightly blurred view showing Mashona holding vegetables and other produce for bartering while they bargain with the pioneers. Exact location unknown, but presumably taken in the Lundi River area around August 2nd.

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Showing a settlement of circular thatched huts on open flat land near Salisbury.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Collection of prints inserted in a bound copy of the Rhodesia-Nyasaland Royal Commission Report (Cmd. 5949) 1939. Written on the title page is 'Illustrated with the Chairman's snapshot photographs.' Plate 1 is inside the front cover; the remainder are in pairs on sheets of paper bound into the volume at intervals. They are prints of sharp definition and high quality, mostly 140 x 90 mm, but numbers 5, 17, 18, 44, 46 and 47 are approximately 95 x 120 mm. All have hand-written captions. ...

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Showing a group of Mashonas siting or standing with goods for barter carried in circular wicker baskets. A group of pioneers poses for the camera in the background. Exact location unknown, but presumably taken in the Lundi River area around August 2nd.

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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.

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Showing a group of Matabele warriors, some wearing traditional clothing with shields of hide, others with European accoutrements. Photograph taken during the first week of July 1890.

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Showing Matabele warriors armed with shields and rifles standing among a group of pioneers.

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Showing the Matabele warriors seated on the ground at Fort Tuli with a group of pioneers gathered round them in a semi-circle.

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Showing the front entrance and facade of the Maternity Block.

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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.