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Looking across cultivated fields towards wooded hillside.

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Showing ruined walls overgrown with vegetation, probably at the western foot of Zimbabwe Hill. Photograph taken between August 13th – 19th.

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Showing ‘B’ Troop mounted and in formation on part of the sandy riverbed of the Tuli. The Tuli (or Shashi) River stretched nearly 1000 yards from bank to bank, but at the time the Pioneer Column was there, before the rains, the river itself was only a few hundred yards across and the flat riverbed was used as a football pitch.

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202 x 148 mm. Lord Carrington, the British Foreign Secretary, greets Mr Ian Smith at Lancaster House for the start of the Constitutional Conference on Rhodesia. Lord Carrington chaired the conference at which Mr Smith was a delegate in the Salisbury team of negotiators.

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205 x 153 mm. Showing two Africans standing on the bank of a stream with dense forest vegetation on either bank and overhead. Exact location and date are unknown.

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Showing a row of circular thatched huts protected by a substantial stone wall in the background, with the Union Jack flying on the fortified enclosure beyond. An unidentified pioneer stands on the flat, open land in the foreground. This photograph, to judge by the amount of work already done on the fort by the garrison left behind by the main column, was possibly taken in October 1890.

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Showing men peering over the top of the fortified earthworks at Fort Charter, with a Union Jack flying from a makeshift pole in the background. This photograph, to judge by the amount of work already done on the fort by the garrison left behind by the main column, was possibly taken in October 1890.

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Showing men peering over the top of the earthworks at Fort Charter, with other figures standing beside a wagon in the sandbagged entrance and the Union Jack flying in the background. This photograph, to judge by the amount of work already done on the fort by the garrison left behind by the main column, was possibly taken in October 1890.

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Showing the earthwork fort built on the crest of rising ground about half a mile from the kopje. Inside the stockade thatched huts and field pieces can be seen with the Union Jack flying in the centre. Construction of the fort was started on September 15th and this photograph of the completed stockade was probably taken towards the end of the month.

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A view looking back across the Tuli River towards the kopje on which Fort Tuli would later stand. The main column’s laager can just be made out below the hill. A photograph probably taken on July 6th 1890.

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A view looking towards the summit of the kopje with a protective thorn zariba surrounding the hill in the foreground, inside which are wagons and tents. On the summit of the kopje is the earthworks fort itself with an encampment of bell tents inside a brushwood perimeter fence and a sandbag lookout post. The fort itself was built, after the main body of the column had passed through, by a troop of BSA Co. police left behind as a garrison by Willoughby.

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A more distant view of Fort Tuli showing the whole of the summit of the kopje and outer fortifications.

Scope and Contents Showing two circular ‘daga’ and thatch huts with a stone wall beyond and the Union Jack flying in the background. ‘On the plateau near the head of the Pass, the Column laagered, and on rising ground a short distance away Colonel Pennefather ordered the construction of a fort. Strong stakes were driven into the earth to stand about six feet above the ground, and branches were woven into the interstices between them. At a distance of about twenty feet from the stockade a ditch five feet deep...

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A view from the road looking towards the two storied whitewashed building.

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Includes material on the IUC as a whole together with a few items on British Universities.

Scope and Contents Photographs collected by Alfred Hugh Fisher for the Colonial Office Visual Instruction Committee. They are loose prints, most either with captions on the print or handwritten on the reverse. The captions have been used as titles and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. Captions supplied by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets. The prints are by: The Cape Government...

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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.

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Showing the brick buildings of the BSAP camp at Salisbury.

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A view showing the front facade of the hospital in the north east section of Salisbury.

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

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202 x 151 mm. A view from the Hill ruin looking out over the surrounding countryside, with the Elliptical Building at the right of the print.

Scope and Contents Arranged by area, then by country (including a few which are not members of the Commonwealth):The Mediterranean 30Cyprus 11Gibraltar 3Malta 16Middle East 3Jordan 1Palestine 2Indian Sub-Continent 81General 1Bangladesh 4Bhutan 2India 51Nepal 1Pakistan 16Sri Lanka 6South East Asia 58Brunei 5Indonesia 1Malaysia 43Singapore 9East Asia 33China 3Hong Kong 29Korea ...

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Showing the German Sausage tree growing among bush land with rocky outcrops in the background. A photograph probably taken in the Lundi River area about August 2nd.

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An undated series of postcards depicting artwork and scenes from Ghana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, India and Malaysia. The postcards are undated but probably originate from the 1970s or 1980s.

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236 x 180 mm. Showing a group of African villagers posed with a few unidentified Pioneers in a Mashona village. The huts are of the typical Mashona pattern, built of 'daga' with thatched roots. A smaller hut stands on the summit of a large granite boulder in the background. The exact location of Goto's Kraal has not been established, but it was probably somewhere in the area between the Lundi River and Providential Pass (the photograph was probably taken, therefore, in early August).