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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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.

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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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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.

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152 x 207 mm. The conference was held to enable the delegates to examine a draft scheme for the federation of Southern Rhodesia, Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland.

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203 x 151 mm. Showing the conical tower and walls at Zimbabwe.

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A view of the conical tower which stands at the south-eastern end of the circular building. Photograph taken between August 13th-19th.

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Showing a small part of the encampment at Lundi River with a wooded hill beyond. In the foreground a pioneer sits beside a tent among miscellaneous equipment including a wagon loaded with stores, a small field gun and a telescope. Photograph taken about August 2nd.

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Showing Keen standing beside an African youth who is marking out the pitch with whitewash. The caption continues 'Kopje on right of large tree in the centre is where we had an attack with the guns, 15 pounders. Concrete building on extreme right is the magazine. A guard tent on left of it. The Kopje is called Gun Kopje'.

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Showing two Africans and a European working at looms in the mill.

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85 x 63 mm. A country scene, possibly in Southern Rhodesia.

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76 x 54 mm. A country scene, possibly in Southern Rhodesia.

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Showing an ox-team drawing a wagon across the drift over the Hunyani River seen in Y3052A/132. Photograph taken about September 10th.

Scope and Contents Showing wagons crossing the Lundi River with a good view of the corduroy road (built from branches and small tree trunks laid on a bedding of packed sand) leading into the foreground of the photograph. Photograph taken on August 2nd, when the crossing was made. ‘One of the most serious obstacles of the whole trek was the Lundi River, a deep, swiftly flowing stream of considerable width with an uneven, rocky bed which threatened to capsize the wagons. As far as was practicable the drift was...

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Showing an ox team drawing a wagon over the corduroy road of branches laid across the stream of the river. The team is blurred through movement in this photograph; Y3052A/75 is a better illustration of the proceedings.

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Showing a team of oxen crossing the drift over the stream with another wagon approaching the river from the steep bank beyond. See Y3052A/59 for Willoughby’s description of the work involved in fording rivers.

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Showing a tram of oxen and a wagon (blurred through movement) crossing the corduroy drift over the Nuanetsie.

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Showing a team of oxen crossing the Umzingwane at the drift also seen in Y3052A/54. Both in that photograph and this the road cut by the advance party of pioneers can be seen in the background. Photograph taken about July 15th 1890.

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Copies of correspondence and diary entries relating mainly to Gedge's time in Africa, with secondary material regarding Gedge and this collection.

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Dr. C.C. Matondo and Dr S.B. Patterson discussing a case.