Scope and Contents 194 x 234 mm. A view looking along the Tokwani River with dense forest vegetation on either bank. The photograph was taken in early August. This is most probably the scene described in Surridge's lecture: 'On the smaller river, the Tokwani, one fairy glen specially may be mentioned. The large trees formed a perfect avenue overhead, and so thick was the overhanging foliage that the brilliant sunlight was almost obscured. Beneath were palms, growing to a height of about seven or eight...

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Showing the premises of the Standard Bank of South Africa's Salisbury branch. This brick building, faced with cement and only recently erected at the time of this photograph on the corner of Third Street and Jameson Avenue, was replaced by a larger headquarters in 1928.

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The programme for the opening of the Kariba Dam by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother on Tuesday 17 May 1960.

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The programme for the opening of the Kariba Dam by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother on Tuesday 17 May 1960.

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The proceedings at the opening of the Kariba Hydro-Electric Undertaking by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother on 17 May 1960.

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Showing a team of four oxen drawing a wooden sledge with the thatched circular stone huts of the township in the background.

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A page of news, editorials and sport, with adverts on the reverse.

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152 x 202 mm. A view looking along the curving passage between two high stone walls on the inner face of the outer wall of the Elliptical building at Zimbabwe.

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A view looking along a row of the pioneers’ bivouac tents at Salisbury with the kopje in the background. Photograph taken about September 12th.

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Photograph by Basil Shackleton.

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Showing part of the wall with a double row of chevrons patterned into the brickwork near the top. This chevron pattern is found at the south-eastern and north-eastern end of the circular ruins. Photograph taken between August 13th-19th.

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Showing part of the camp with the searchlight and steam engine (see Y3052A/30) at the left of the print, a row of wagons and men and equipment in the foreground. The location is presumably Impadi rather than Impagi, a spot about two thirds of the way between Tuli and the Umzingwane. The advance road making party reached the Umzingwane on July 10th, the day before the main body set out from Fort Tuli. The main column would have reached Impadi on about July 14th 1890.

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A view looking along a row of beds towards the end of the ward where three nurses stand.

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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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149 x 202 mm. Members of the Patriotic Front delegation , led by Mr Robert Mugabe and Mr Joshua Nkomo, at the Constitutional Conference on Rhodesia in the State Drawing Room of Lancaster House.

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201 x 149 mm. Mr Joshua Nkomo, one of the leaders of the Patriotic Front delegation, is welcomed by Lord Carrington, the British Foreign Secretary, for the start of the Constitutional Conference on Rhodesia at Lancaster House.

Scope and Contents A collection of prints of various sizes. A number of the earlier prints have evidently been removed from the pages of an album. The collection is divided up as follows:1-19 Views in India (Mussoorie, Muttra and Hurdwar), 1890s-1900s, mainly commercial work but with some amateur snapshots20-26 Postcards of India, early 1900s27-37 Snapshots of Southern Rhodesia, 1920s-1930sMost of the prints have contemporary captions, and many in addition have titles written at a...

Scope and Contents An album containing mounted prints measuring approximately 240 x 180 mm, with captions beneath the prints written in a fine copperplate hand. The photographs show scenes taken between June and September 1890 during the Pioneer trek in what was later to be Southern Rhodesia (currently Zimbabwe). On July 9 1891, soon after his return to England, Surridge delivered a lecture to the Royal Colonial Institute, entitled 'Matabeleland and Mashonaland'. This talk was illustrated with lantern...

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A view looking along Pioneer Street with the Central Hotel in the left foreground and Edwards and Co. merchants at the right.

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75 x 54 mm. Five men standing in front of a plane, probably at Bulawayo.

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A view from the road showing Alexander Russell standing on the verandah of the corrugated-iron Post Office building at Shurugwi. Russell was postmaster 1907-9.

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A view looking down onto two rows of bell tents surrounded by a thorn zariba with scrubland and the Tuli River in the background. Of the 500 BSA Co. police, only 300 moved on to Tuli, the remainder, under the command of Sir John Willoughby, remaining at Macloutsie to cover the column’s rear. Photograph taken during the first week of July 1890.

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Showing another section of the police lines at Tuli River. Photograph taken during the first week of July 1890.

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Showing the two rough thatched huts erected along the line of communication at the Hunyani River. A small group of pioneers and Mashonas stand in front of the building. Photograph taken about September 10th.

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A portrait of Gandhi or Gandy aged 13 or 14. There are manuscript notes on the back of the picture.