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286 x 222 mm. View from a boulder on the summit of World’s View looking down onto the guard of honour, with Bishop Gaul and Colonel Rhodes arriving at the head of the funeral procession. The Right Revd. William Thomas Gaul (d. 1928) was Bishop of Mashonaland 1895-1907. Colonel Francis William Rhodes (1851-1905) was Rhodes’ brother. A photographer can be seen adjusting his camera in the foreground.

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289 x 226 mm. View showing the coffin, followed by the procession of mourners passing the monument to those who fell in the Matabele War of 1896. With onlookers lining the street in the foreground.

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287 x 217 mm. General view of the site of Rhodes’ grave.

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285 x 224 mm. View from World’s View looking out over the Matopos Hills.

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286 x 211 mm. View of the Matopos Hills from World’s View.

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276 x 219 mm. Showing the body being lifted from the train at Bulawayo Station on the morning of 8 April, with the gun carriage on the platform and spectators lining the precincts of the platform.

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285 x 204 mm. View looking along the wooded hillside towards the boulders marking the summit of the hill and the site of Rhodes’ grave.

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Showing Umvali, according to the caption a son of Cetshwayo, seated beside a white bearded European in front of a Zulu hut.

Scope and Contents Showing the staff of the Post Office grouped on the verandah.Alexander Russell: see introduction.James Merry Andrews: Learner, Bulawayo, February 18 1904; Postmaster and Telegraphist, Killarney Mine, July 15 1906; Junior Assistant, Selukwe January 12 1908; Postmaster and Telegraphist, Golden Valley, May 7 1908; Assistant, Bulawayo February 3 1909; Postmaster and Telegraphist, Wankies, March 16 1909; Postmaster and Telegraphist, Battlefields Mine, August 18 1909;...

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Editions of 'Horizon', the magazine of the mining company Roan Selection Trust Limited; the 'Livingstone Mail'; 'Nada', the Southern Rhodesian Native Affairs Department Annual; and the 'Northern Rhodesia Journal', published by the Northern Rhodesia Society.

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Editions of 'Horizon', the magazine of the mining company Roan Selection Trust Limited; the 'Livingstone Mail'; 'Nada', the Southern Rhodesian Native Affairs Department Annual; and the 'Northern Rhodesia Journal', published by the Northern Rhodesia Society.

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Editions of 'Horizon', the magazine of the mining company Roan Selection Trust Limited; the 'Livingstone Mail'; 'Nada', the Southern Rhodesian Native Affairs Department Annual; and the 'Northern Rhodesia Journal', published by the Northern Rhodesia Society.

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Editions of 'Horizon', the magazine of the mining company Roan Selection Trust Limited; the 'Livingstone Mail'; 'Nada', the Southern Rhodesian Native Affairs Department Annual; and the 'Northern Rhodesia Journal', published by the Northern Rhodesia Society.

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A view looking along a road towards a group of circular thatched huts.

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139 x 184 mm. Showing two Makalanga girls standing with woven baskets balanced on their heads.

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Showing three Europeans seated round a table with an African servant standing in the background. Russell is seated at the left of the group and C. Westley (see Y3052C12) at the right. The central figure is unidentified.

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242 x 184 mm. A view looking down onto the laagered wagons of the Pioneer Column from a small hill. The wagons are laagered in an oval formation which is open at the more distant end where the flat grassland changes to forest. With horses grazing in the foreground. The photograph was taken in early August when the Pioneers crossed the Tokwe which lies about midway between the Lundi River and Fort Victoria.

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Showing the entrance porch and square, central tower of the Salisbury Hospital.

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The principal part of the collection is a set of thirteen scrapbooks of newscuttings relating to East Africa, particularly Kenya and Tanganyika. The rest of the collection consists of a volume of cuttings relating to post-war trading opportunities in Nigeria and three scrapbooks concerning rubber and mining in South East Asia.

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Cuttings from the 'East African Standard' and other publications on events in Kenya, Uganda and Rhodesia, particularly the Mau Mau disturbances. Most of the cuttings have been pasted into the binder in chronological order, but some are loose.

Scope and Contents Seventy-nine pages of newscuttings from 'The Beira News and East Coast Chronicle' concerning East Africa, particularly its industry and commerce. The principal topics are the maize market, Zambesi coalfields, the political and economic future of Rhodesia, including the role of the British South Africa Company in the region, Nyasaland tobacco, and the development of ports and railways, notably at Beira and in Rhodesia. Other countries featured in the scrapbook include the Belgian Congo,...

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A view of the New Meikles Hotel looking towards office buildings silhouetted against the night sky.

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

Scope and Contents Album of carbon prints, originally belonging to Sir Leander Starr Jameson and has his signature. The album contains the results of William Ellerton Fry's work documenting the British South Africa Company's occupation of Mashonaland. It is not known how many copies of this album were produced; fewer than twenty are known to survive. The photographs were reproduced in smaller format but with some introductory matter, by Books of Zimbabwe, Bulawayo in 1982. It may be noted that this gives...

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A postcard (original photograph) showing a row of tents and a row of bungalows in the BSAP Camp at Salisbury. Postcard dated 20.12.14. Published by the Argus Printing and Publishing Co Ltd. , Salisbury.