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Showing partially-constructed thatched huts, probably within the fort enclosure at Salisbury. Photograph probably taken some time after September 15th.

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

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These files include annual reports, accompanied in some cases by explanatory letters, reports of annual general meetings, statements of accounts and other papers.

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203 x 152 mm. A view looking south along Main Street from its junction with Selborne Avenue, with the Matabele Rebellion Memorial in the centre of the street in the foreground and the Rhodes Statue beyond.

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75 x 52 mm. A group of people in the Matopos Hills.

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90 x 115 mm. Showing the Cecil Rhodes statue in Main Street, Bulawayo, with the Grand Hotel in the background.

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197 x 139 mm. A view from Main Street looking towards the three storeyed verandahed building of the Grand Hotel.

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Showing cattle grazing on lightly wooded pastureland on the Mashonaland Plateau. Exact location unknown, but presumably taken between Fort Victoria and Fort Charter, August 19th – September 4th.

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Showing cattle grazing on the banks of the dam near the hotel, with the Vumba Mountains in the distance.

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80 x 85 mm. A view showing the grave of Cecil Rhodes on the hill top in the Matopo Hills about 30 miles south of Bulawayo.

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The inscription is 'Here lie the remains of Cecil Rhodes.' Print at RCMS 353/2/84.

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The inscription is 'Here lie the remains of Cecil Rhodes.'

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A view looking across the gardens of Cecil Square with a large block of flats or hotel in the background.

Scope and Contents The collection comprises twenty-three boxes of photographs and thirty boxes plus one file of negatives. The majority of photographs are of Heads of Government, meetings and other conferences held in the U.K; conferences leading to constitutional progress and, in most cases, independence, of individual countries; visitors from overseas including those training in the U.K; and organisations, exhibitions etc., in the U.K. relating to the Commonwealth. Most were taken by COI...

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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.

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. ...

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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82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, undated captions. The slides appear to have been gathered for lecture purposes and are not necessarily on the work of the CMS. They relate to various parts of the continent.

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82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, undated captions. The slides appear to have been gathered for lecture purposes and are not necessarily on the work of the CMS. They relate to various parts of the continent.

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Showing the Pioneers cheering the flag at Fort Salisbury on September 13th.

Scope and Contents Showing Chibi (in a white blanket, second from right) and his followers sitting on the ground facing the camera with Robert Beale of ‘B’ Troop and another unidentified pioneer standing in the background. Chibi (or Chiri) was the title of the paramount chiefs of the Mari (or Mhari), a branch of the Karanga cluster of Shona and known as the Banyai in the nineteenth century (see 'Historical Dictionary of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe', R. Kent Rasmussen, 1979). The Chibi in 1890 was Madhlangore (d. 1907)....

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Showing three tourists looking across the valley towards the mountains, with the gap in the mountains from which the range gets its name, at the left of the print.

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Letters to Sugg concerning the Choma Museum, Zambia, with related material, including newscuttings; the draft of a talk on the history of Northern and Southern Rhodesia; 'Across the waters', an article concerning a travelling exhibition on resettlement of the Valley Tonga; and an account by Sugg of the resettlement of the Tonga people as a consequence of the construction of the Kariba Dam.

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 the small corrugated-iron church with other buildings in the background.