Scope and Contents An album containing prints measuring approximately 285 x 220 mm. with letterpress captions pasted onto the bottoms of the prints. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. The majority of the prints are signed in the negative. With the album is a booklet containing the order of service, the whole contained in a folder bound in hide. Rhodes died on 26 March 1902 and, after a period of lying in state in Cape Town, the body was transported thence by train to...

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Includes material on the IUC as a whole together with a few items on British Universities.

Scope and Contents Photographs collected by Alfred Hugh Fisher for the Colonial Office Visual Instruction Committee. They are loose prints, most either with captions on the print or handwritten on the reverse. The captions have been used as titles and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. Captions supplied by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets. The prints are by: The Cape Government...

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Collection of loose prints, most mounted on card and measuring approximately 205 x 150 mm with typewritten captions pasted to the mounts. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Prints 3 and 7 are by Ronald D.K. Hadden and British Overseas Airways Corporation (B.O.A.C.) respectively.

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Showing the brick buildings of the BSAP camp at Salisbury.

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A view showing the front facade of the hospital in the north east section of Salisbury.

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A view looking across the rooftops of central Salisbury with wooded hills in the distance.

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202 x 151 mm. A view from the Hill ruin looking out over the surrounding countryside, with the Elliptical Building at the right of the print.

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Collection of loose prints, the majority mounted on card and measuring approximately 240 x 190 mm., with typewritten captions pasted on the mounts. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found.

Scope and Contents Arranged by area, then by country (including a few which are not members of the Commonwealth):The Mediterranean 30Cyprus 11Gibraltar 3Malta 16Middle East 3Jordan 1Palestine 2Indian Sub-Continent 81General 1Bangladesh 4Bhutan 2India 51Nepal 1Pakistan 16Sri Lanka 6South East Asia 58Brunei 5Indonesia 1Malaysia 43Singapore 9East Asia 33China 3Hong Kong 29Korea ...

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Showing the German Sausage tree growing among bush land with rocky outcrops in the background. A photograph probably taken in the Lundi River area about August 2nd.

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An undated series of postcards depicting artwork and scenes from Ghana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, India and Malaysia. The postcards are undated but probably originate from the 1970s or 1980s.

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236 x 180 mm. Showing a group of African villagers posed with a few unidentified Pioneers in a Mashona village. The huts are of the typical Mashona pattern, built of 'daga' with thatched roots. A smaller hut stands on the summit of a large granite boulder in the background. The exact location of Goto's Kraal has not been established, but it was probably somewhere in the area between the Lundi River and Providential Pass (the photograph was probably taken, therefore, in early August).

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236 x 188 mm. Showing an European (not positively identified, but probably Francis Balfour, the Pioneer Column's Anglican Chaplain). Exact location unknown. The photograph was probably taken in early August.

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A view from flat bush land looking towards a smooth granite outcrop, its lower slopes littered with boulders. Exact location unknown. Photograph taken about August 2nd.

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A view looking out over thick bush studded with huge granite outcrops, a good indication of the type of land the column had to cross before reaching the Mashonaland Plateau. Photograph probably taken from M’tibi’s Kraal on July 24th 1890.

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A view looking across bush towards large granite kopjes. Exact location unknown, but a photograph taken between July 24th and 28th 1890 between the Setoutsie and Nuanetsie Rivers.

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Another view showing granite outcrops between the Setoutsie and Nuanetsie Rivers. Photograph taken between July 24th and 28th 1890.

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185 x 219 mm. A view looking towards the huge half dome of the Savana Buli Rock from the flat bush land at its base. A group of Pioneers with their horses can be seen in the long grass in the foreground. The photograph was taken about August 2.

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120 x 73 mm.

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122 x 74 mm.

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 a group of Makalaka girls in front of a clay and thatch hut at M’tibi’s Kraal. Photograph taken July 24th 1890.

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Showing a group of Makalaka men and women on a large granite boulder with a thatched hut and cliffs beyond. Photograph probably taken on July 24th 1890, the day on which the Column reached Mtibi’s Kraal on the banks of the Setoutsie River.

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Showing a group of Karanga men seated on the ground on a level piece of land near the Summit of Zimbabwe Hill. Photograph taken between August 13th – 19th.