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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.

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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'.

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Showing Henry Rudland in uniform standing on the veranda of Salisbury Hospital. The caption continues, 'Had no boots, foot swollen too much. Had to put on slippers. They are the large pair you sent me. This uniform is only our 'slacks' what we drill in and [for] general work. Taken in my 4" [illegible] and had a relapse'.

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An indistinct view showing Rudland seated in a pony trap standing in a small stream.

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 diggers in the foreground with factory buildings beyond at the Shabanie Asbestos Mine, 95 miles east of Bulawayo.

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Showing the stone monument inset with a bronze relief of members of the Shangani Patrol erected in the Matopos Hills.

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73 x 51 mm. Showing the grave and memorial of the members of the Shingani Patrol killed in 1893.

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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.