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Showing the column laagered on flat land in the foreground with granite kopjes beyond. The searchlight and steam engine (see Y3052A/30) can be seen in the right foreground. Exact location unknown, but a photograph taken between July 24th and 28th 1890 between the Setoutsie and Nuanetsie Rivers.

Scope and Contents Showing pioneer wagons laagered in a circle near the Tuli River with the searchlight steam-engine visible in the background (see Y3052A/30). Tuli was reached on July 1 and occupied until July 11 when a column consisting of 180 pioneers, 200 police, 62 wagons and a number of small prospecting parties started to cross the Tuli River. This party was preceded by Captain Hoste and B Troop who crossed the river on July 6 and forged ahead cutting the road towards the Umzingwani River 50 miles from...

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A view looking down from the site of Fort Tuli (see Y3052A/42-44) onto a laager of wagons at the same spot as that seen in Y3052A/38. This however is a large affair with a corrugated iron shed in the foreground and a row of tents around part of the perimeter. Photograph taken during first week of July 1890.

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A view looking down from the site of Fort Tuli (see Y3052A/42-44) onto the circular laager of wagons with the Tuli River in the background and scrubland beyond. The searchlight steam-engine (see Y3052A/30) is under canvas at the left of the laager. Photograph taken during first week of July 1890.

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Showing a large thorn tree near the Umzingwane with an unidentified pioneer standing in the foreground. Photograph taken about July 15th 1890.

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'Lepers in the Mashona section'.

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'The Two Types of Leprosy. Left: Anaesthetic (more serious). Right: Nodular'.

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Part of a letter to Barbara Lecky describing the troubled situation in Rhodesia (6 pages). There are also two pieces of related correspondence between Barbara Lecky and D.H. Simpson, R.C.S. Librarian, 18 and 25 March 1976 (3 pages).

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Journals and letters recounting her travels. Most of the letters do not include the name of the correspondent, and are probably copies.

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Showing a European miner lighting a small charge in a stope of the mine.

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Showing a lion approaching a tourist bus in the park.

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Material relating to Sugg's career in Northern Rhodesia, with some later papers.

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A view looking along the river with an unidentified pioneer standing on the bank in the foreground. Photograph taken about August 2nd.

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A view looking along the Lundi towards rapids in the distance with an unidentified pioneer standing on the bank in the foreground. Photograph taken about August 2nd.

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202 x 149 mm. Lord Carrington, the British Foreign Secretary, welcomes Mr Robert Mugabe, one of the leaders of the Patriotic Front delegation at the Constitutional Conference on Rhodesia.

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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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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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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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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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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 pioneers and African labourers on the bank of the Nuanéteze River. The river offered few difficulties, the drift was made and the river forded by the column on July 28th 1890. See also Y3052B/15.

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Showing members of the advance party constructing a drift across the Hunyani River at a point where the watercourse is divided into two streams separated by a sandbank. Photograph taken on September 10th.

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Showing the dam reservoir with Mount Inyanga in the background.

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A slightly blurred view showing Mashona holding vegetables and other produce for bartering while they bargain with the pioneers. Exact location unknown, but presumably taken in the Lundi River area around August 2nd.

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Showing a settlement of circular thatched huts on open flat land near Salisbury.