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285 x 218 mm. Similar to Y3052M/17 and 18.

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285 x 218 mm. Showing an open-sided thatched hut which shelters a table and chairs. It was presumably beneath this roof that Rhodes’ body lay on the night of 9 April.

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Showing the column’s horses grazing on pasture land in the foreground with the Savana Buli Rock rising beyond. Photograph taken about August 2nd.

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Showing three Africans standing outside the buildings.

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Showing the stone building with wooden verandahs which housed the Legislative Assembly from 1899 onwards. Built in 1895 as the Cecil Hotel it was purchased by the BSACo in 1898. Additions were made to the building in 1938, 1953 and 1970.

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73 x 51 mm. Showing a circular thatched hut, with others partially visible in the background.

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197 x 149 mm. Oval print. Showing one of the great domed granite hills which rise out of the bush in the country south of Fort Victoria with outspanned oxen grazing in the foreground. Exact location unknown. The photograph was probably taken in early August.

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192 x 235 mm. Showing a corner of the laager at an unidentified location with unsaddled horses grazing and an unidentified Pioneer standing in the foreground.

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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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A view looking long one of the paths in the Public Gardens with shrubs and trees on either side.

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Showing a street in the village lined with circular ‘daga’ and thatched huts interspersed with tall cactus trees. A few villagers stand in the foreground. Photograph taken about August 20th.

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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.