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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234 x 172 mm. A view from the bank looking north along the Lundi River with an European, (not positively identified, but probably Francis Balfour, the Pioneer Column's Anglican Chaplain) standing in the foreground. The photograph was probably taken about August 2.

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This belongs to the British South Africa Co. and is used to irrigate their citrus estate. Print at RCMS 353/2/91.

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This belongs to the British South Africa Co. and is used to irrigate their citrus estate.

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This belongs to the British South Africa Co. and is used to irrigate their citrus estate.

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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 boulder-strewn gorge on the Nuanéteze River. Photograph taken about July 28th 1890.

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A view from the road showing the front facade of the Salisbury Nursing Home Bungalow with a nurse standing on the verandah.

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Showing an unidentified European standing in front of the small circular thatched hut which served as the Post and Telegraph Office at Mazoe, north of Salisbury.

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During his life he held a number of receptions here. It is quite close to his own farm.

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Postcard (original photograph) published by the Argus Printing and Publishing Co., Salisbury.

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Published and unpublished material collected by Sugg relating to Southern Africa.

Scope and Contents 120 x 189 mm. The formal scene inside the Palais des Nations in Geneva as the conference on Rhodesia gets under way, chaired by Mr. Ivor Richards (centre of table on left), the United Kingdom’s Representative to the United Nations. Other participants are: Mr Ian Smith (centre of table on right), the Rhodesian leader, with his team; and the four nationalist delegations headed by Mr Robert Mugabe (centre of top, left table), leader of the Zimbabwe African National Union; Mr Joshua Nkomo...

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Print at RCMS 353/2/96.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

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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A view from flat bush land looking towards the smooth dome of the Savana Buli Rock. Photograph taken about August 2nd.

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A view looking along a river (probably the Suvirima, a tributary of the Lundi) towards the Savana Buli Rock. Photograph taken about August 2nd.

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A view looking along a river (probably the Suvirima, a tributary of the Lundi) towards the Savana Buli Rock. Photograph taken about August 2nd. A similar view to Y3052A/ 88, taken from a slightly different angle. Photograph taken about August 2nd.

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A photograph of the Christmas card, composed of a montage of four other photographs: The Telegraph Club, Our Billiard Room ( Y3052C/18), Some of the members and Our Chef and Staff.

Scope and Contents 237 x 192 mm. Showing the column trekking through the Mashonaland bush. In the foreground a team of oxen has just crossed the small Tokwani Stream (one of the tributaries of the Tokwe); beyond the stream men can be seen at work attempting to right an overturned wagon with a block and tackle, while another team negotiates the sharp descent in the track which probably caused the accident. In the background a long line of wagons stretches away into the bush. The photograph was taken in...

Scope and Contents Showing teams of men, some standing naked in the river hauling an ox span and wagon (tipped at a precarious angle on the farther bank) across the Umzingwane. Sir John Willoughby describes the work involved in this task: The ... rivers, on account of their steep banks and sandy beds, were great natural obstacles to the advance of the main column, and also to us, though to a somewhat lesser degree. Drifts had to be made over each, the banks cut away and the sandy beds corduroyed [the corduroy...

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Showing a large team of oxen pulling a wagon across the Umzingwane. This probably shows the wagon seen in Y3052A/57, with extra oxen inspanned to it pulling the vehicle across the river. Photograph taken about July 15th 1890.

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A view of Umzingwane River with horses drinking and a team of oxen (blurred) crossing the drift. A photograph taken about July 15th 1890.

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A view looking along the sandy riverbank towards the river. A photograph taken about July 15th 1890.

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A rather poorly defined view showing a wagon stuck in the shallow bed of the Umzingwane with groups of loose oxen standing beside the river. Photograph taken about July 15th 1890.