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Print at RCMS 353/2/82.

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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.

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A view looking up the steep boulder strewn hillside towards the thatched huts of the village of the Karanga chief Mugabe which stands on the summit. An unidentified pioneer stands in the foreground. Photograph taken between August 13th – 19th.

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A postcard ( original photograph) showing mine premises and compound on the hill in the background with mule teams pulling wagons loaded with timber along a road in the foreground. Postcard dated 20.12.14. Published by the Argus Printing and Publishing Co., Salisbury.

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A view looking across the falls.

Scope and Contents Ten volumes of cuttings from 'The field', including a few articles from other publications, and loose cuttings concerning the Malay Peninsula. The volumes concern countries throughout the world, but in particular Australia, British East Africa (Kenya), Canada, India, New Zealand, Nigeria, Rhodesia, South Africa, Uganda, United States and the West Indies. The articles cover a wide range of subjects, including administration, agriculture, the British Empire, climate, colonisation,...

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Showing a European orderly and two Africans in the hospital gardens.

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A view looking across the level bed of granite towards a small hill of granite boulders. With three Europeans (seen in Y3052C/13) standing in the foreground.

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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 spectators in ponytraps watching as a company of Australian troops bound for the South African War ( see Y3086Q) fire their rifles into the air. The domed building in the background is the Market premises.

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Showing Captain Hoste and another officer at the head of ‘B’ Troop, mounted in formation on the dry section of the Tuli Riverbed. ‘B’ Troop left Tuli on July 6th to cut the road through to the Umzingwani River (50 miles from Tuli) while the main column awaited provisions from Macloutsie.

Scope and Contents 187 x 225 mm. Showing a group of villagers and three Pioneers posed in front of huts at a Mashona kraal. The European at the left of the group is (Sir) Herman Melville Heyman (1859-1938), Commander of 'A' Troop of the BSACo Police contingent. The other two figures are unidentified, althoguh the central figure is possibly Frank Johnson. This photograph presumably coincided with the following passage from Surridge's lecture: "Go with me in thought to the top of one of the highest peaks...

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73 x 51 mm. Showing a baobab tree and other vegetation, with an unsurfaced track in the foreground.

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Showing four pioneers at the base of a large baobab tree with a granite hill, possibly the Savana Buli Rock, rising in the background. The figure standing at the left of the group is the American, Maurice Heany, while the central figure is possibly Dr Jameson. Photograph taken about August 2nd.

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Showing the same figures from Y3052A/95 standing at the base of the tree, but showing the baobab from a different angle. The figure standing at the right of the group is the American, Maurice Heany, while the central figure is possibly Dr Jameson. Photograph taken about August 2nd.

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Showing a baobab tree in the foreground with the boulder-strewn hillside beyond. Photograph probably taken on July 24th 1890.

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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.

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 two African women seated on the ground weaving baskets.

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Showing a group of men and women seated at a stone table drinking mugs of beer.

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Showing a member of the Club taking a shot with seven other figures standing in the background.

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Showing the BSA Co. dinghy sailing on the Umfuli River a little less than midway between Fort Charter and Fort Salisbury. Photograph probably taken early September.

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A diary describing Le Sueur's time in Africa, November 1997 - April 1998, 190 pages with a two-page index. The volume covers the journey out (pp. 1-3), Kenya (4-65), Tanzania (65-85), Malawi (65-98), Zimbabwe (99-113), Namibia (113-125), South Africa (126-152, 157-172 and 174-184), Lesotho (152-157), Swaziland (172-174) and the journey home (184-188).

Scope and Contents ‘The cultivated resources of the Gold Coast: crops and livestock’ (London, 1938)‘New Commonwealth: trade and commerce, focus on Nigeria’, No. 8, 1970‘West Africa’ Nos. 3037-39, 8-22 Sept. 1975‘Zambia newsbrief 3’ (1974?)‘Zamibia 1964-1974: ten years of achievement’ (Lusaka: 1974)News cuttings from the ‘Sunday telegraph’, 16 Sept. 1979, featuring a story on the experience of women in the colonies, and from ‘The daily telegraph’, 12 Dec. 1979, on the...

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Three medals.