Scope and Contents A collection of coloured slides, 18 of which measure 40 x 40 mm, the remainder 35 mm, all mounted 50 x 50 mm, relating to Commonwealth Universities, with the exception of 33 of non-Commonwealth Universities which were, however, associated with the Inter-University Council for Higher Education Overseas (IUC). Many, though not all, were taken by Ian Maxwell, formerly Deputy Director of IUC. Though some have minimal identification, others have substantial annotations on the mounts. ...

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Collection of black and white postcards showing Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). The photographer is E. T. Brown, of whom nothing is known.

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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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Showing a group of Mashonas standing beside circular thatched huts with similar buildings perched on the granite boulders in the background. The original destination of the column had been Mount Hampden, but on crossing the Makabusi Pennefeather and the advance party found a kopje (suitable for fortification) surrounded by land far better than the marshy ground around Mount Hampden and here it was decided to make the settlement. Photograph taken about 10th–12th September.

Scope and Contents Showing a wooden stockade with tightly packed thatched huts beyond and on the granite outcrop above. The exact location of Zimonto’s (Somoto’s) Kraal is not specified, but it presumably lay a short distance north of Fort Victoria. See Y3052B/8-9 for F.H. Surridge's photograph of the village, which he described in ‘Mashonaland and Matabeleland’ R.C.I. Proceedings, Vol XXII, 1890-1, 'Somoto's village, by the soft red rays of a tropical setting sun, was a picture not soon to be forgotten. In...

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A view of Somoto’s Kraal from a different angle and showing the entrance gateway in the wooden stockade. Photograph probably taken about August 20th.

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Showing from a different view point of the Mashona village seen in Y3052A/134. Photograph taken about 10th – 12th September.

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

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A booklet on the Kariba Dam, c. 1962, with an accompanying note on the Kariba system, c. 1963.

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

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Showing tourists on the southern bank of the Zambezi looking down on the completed dam.

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A aerial view looking southwest and showing the nearly completed dam in the foreground with the waters of Lake Kariba beyond.

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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 wagons of the column laagered on flat bush in the foreground with the Savana Buli Rock, a huge dome of smooth granite, towering above in the background. A photograph taken shortly before the column crossed the Lundi River on August 2nd.

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A view looking down from a hill onto the laager of wagons, drawn up in a circle on flat bush land with hills in the distance. Exact location unknown. Photograph taken about August 2nd.

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Showing the column laagered on flat land in the foreground with granite kopjes beyond. The searchlight and steam engine (see Y3052A/30) can be seen in the right foreground. Exact location unknown, but a photograph taken between July 24th and 28th 1890 between the Setoutsie and Nuanetsie Rivers.

Scope and Contents Showing pioneer wagons laagered in a circle near the Tuli River with the searchlight steam-engine visible in the background (see Y3052A/30). Tuli was reached on July 1 and occupied until July 11 when a column consisting of 180 pioneers, 200 police, 62 wagons and a number of small prospecting parties started to cross the Tuli River. This party was preceded by Captain Hoste and B Troop who crossed the river on July 6 and forged ahead cutting the road towards the Umzingwani River 50 miles from...

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A view looking down from the site of Fort Tuli (see Y3052A/42-44) onto a laager of wagons at the same spot as that seen in Y3052A/38. This however is a large affair with a corrugated iron shed in the foreground and a row of tents around part of the perimeter. Photograph taken during first week of July 1890.

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A view looking down from the site of Fort Tuli (see Y3052A/42-44) onto the circular laager of wagons with the Tuli River in the background and scrubland beyond. The searchlight steam-engine (see Y3052A/30) is under canvas at the left of the laager. Photograph taken during first week of July 1890.

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Showing a large thorn tree near the Umzingwane with an unidentified pioneer standing in the foreground. Photograph taken about July 15th 1890.

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'Lepers in the Mashona section'.

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'The Two Types of Leprosy. Left: Anaesthetic (more serious). Right: Nodular'.

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Part of a letter to Barbara Lecky describing the troubled situation in Rhodesia (6 pages). There are also two pieces of related correspondence between Barbara Lecky and D.H. Simpson, R.C.S. Librarian, 18 and 25 March 1976 (3 pages).

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Journals and letters recounting her travels. Most of the letters do not include the name of the correspondent, and are probably copies.

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Letters written by Agnes Loxton to her cousin Michael Warren in England, 1970-1987, giving an insight into the political situation for whites in Bulawayo. There is also an abstract of the letters prepared by Professor Michael Warren, biographical details about Agnes Loxton and her family and three newspaper cuttings on Zimbabwe of 15-21 November 2001. The papers are accompanied by two letters from Professor Warren to the R.C.S., 31 December 2001 and 12 October 2002.