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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.

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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.

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.

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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.