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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.

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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.

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A panoramic view of the walls of the circular ruins with a breech in the centre and thick vegetation growing within the enclosed area. Ellerton Fry and a few companions visited and photographed the Zimbabwe ruins at some period between August 13-19 while the column was resting at Fort Victoria after the trek through the veld.

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A series of watercolours commissioned from the Rhodesian artist Mrs Gilbert Stephenson to be used in colouring lantern slides to illustrate the fifth handbook, A.J. Sargent, 'South Africa: seven lectures (London, 1914). Stephenson had been recommended by the British South Africa Company.

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177 x 239 mm. Members of a Commonwealth observer group at London’s Heathrow airport leaving for Salisbury, Zimbabwe-Rhodesia, to observe the election campaign and the conduct of the poll.

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Includes material on Universities throughout the Commonwealth of Nations. Many, though not all, of the slides were taken by Ian Maxwell.

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Includes material on Universities throughout the Commonwealth of Nations.

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A postcard (original photograph) showing rows of circular brick huts with conical thatches at the Arcturus Mine. The huts can be seen on the crest of the hill in Y3052F/20. Postcard dated 20.12.14. Published by the Argus Printing and Publishing Co., Salisbury.