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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.

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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.

Scope and Contents Album with panel on cover with title, originally containing 20 photographs of ten libraries but with 7 missing. The following list of libraries represented gives the number of photographs now in the album, with the original number in brackets:Hong Kong 1 (2)Khartoum 1 (2)Malaya (Singapore) 2 (2)Malaya (Kuala Lumpur) 2 (2)Ghana 0 (2)Ibadan 1 (2)Makerere 0 (2)Rhodesia and Nyasaland 2 (2)West Indies 2...

Scope and Contents Collection of photographs of Fletcher High School (now known as Gweru Boys High School?), Gweru, Zimbabwe, probably taken by Rosemary Guinnell, all with handwritten annotations by her on the reverse of each print. A note on the reverse of one print identifies the Head Master as 'Frank Davies (Welsh)', and another reads 'Learning white Anglo-Protestant values.' Seven of the prints depict a presentation of a Midsummer Night's Dream in an open-air theatre built by the pupils. The other...

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Twenty persons are showing in the photograph. The Royal Commission comprised Viscount Bledisloe (Chairman), Patrick Ashley Cooper, Ernest Evans, Thomas Fitzgerald, William Henry Mainwaring, and Ian Leslie Orr-Ewing, with George Frederick Seel as Secretary.

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A view showing some of the ruined walls at Zimbabwe, probably taken from the east of the site. Photograph taken between August 13th – 19th.

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A view from the hill ruins looking south out over the valley towards the elliptical building (see Y3052A/110). Photograph taken between August 13th–19th.

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Showing another section of the wall seen in Y3052A/106. This part, to the right of the entrance gateway, does not have the decorative stonework visible in that print. Photograph taken about August 2nd.

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Showing the entrance gateway in the wall, seen at the right hand side of Y3052A/106. Photograph taken about August 2nd.

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Showing one of the circular stone walls, in good repair apart from some crumbling at the gateway at the right of the print, in the ruins visited at Lundi by the pioneers. The wall consists of neatly dressed stone similar to that seen at Zimbabwe (see Y3052A/110) with two herring bone patterns running along the left hand section and above these two rows of decoratively spaced stones. Photograph taken about August 2nd.

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242 x 173 mm. Showing the neatly dressed stone wall of the enclosure found at Lundi by the Pioneers. The wall is decorated with two herring bone patterns running along the left hand section above which are two rows of spaced stones. Two unidentified Europeans are posed in front of the wall. The photograph was taken about August 2.

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Showing a group of settlers on the verandah of a corrugated iron bungalow outside Salisbury.

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Showing a group of Mashona men and women seated in front of circular thatched huts. A caption on the print itself reads 'Beauty unadorned. Kaffir Kraal. Salisbury'.

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Showing two sable antelope drinking at a waterhole in the Game Reserve.

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Showing telegraph equipment on a table, presumably in the Salisbury Post Office.

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An aerial photograph looking down onto the commercial centre.

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148 x 202 mm. Members of the Salisbury delegation led by Bishop Abel Muzorewa, at the Constitutional Conference on Rhodesia in the State Drawing Room of Lancaster House, London.

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203 x 152 mm. A view from the Kopje looking out over the city.

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A view looking down onto the commercial buildings situated between Kingsway and Moffat.

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Showing a view in central Salisbury and looking over a park in the foreground.

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A view looking across the rooftops of central Salisbury, with wooded hills in the distance.

Scope and Contents Showing the severed head of a hippopotamus lying on the ground. 'In spite of the order that no game was to be shot to avoid alarming any Matabele in the neighbourhood, Johnson could not resist the temptation offered by a school of four hippopotami disporting in the river. He and the brothers Burnett put an end to their game. The skin, leg bones and skull of a cow [presumably the animal seen here] were at once claimed by William Harvey Brown, an American naturalist sent to South Africa to...

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An overall view of part of the township with a football field in the foreground and bungalows beyond.

Scope and Contents An album containing prints measuring approximately 205 x 150 mm or 290 x 230 mm. The album has a decorative hand-painted title page reading: 'This selection of photographic subjects is presented by the Railways and Harbours Department of the Union of South Africa [signed] [illegible], Minister 1925'. There are captions (in gold ink) beneath the photographs, which have been used as titles. The titles may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been...

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Showing Rudland and Bailey (no further information) standing against a background of foliage. Caption continues 'Taken here also. Same date [as Y3052F/13]. He came down from one of our branch factories up bush. He is going Home in the month of May'.