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Photograph by Camera Press.

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Photograph by H.M. Crane.

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Showing small brick bungalows set among gardens.

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Showing two bungalows with an African on a bicycle in the foreground.

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A view looking along a street of bungalows with African women and children in the foreground.

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Showing a small brick bungalow with corrugated-iron roof.

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Showing an African woman picking cotton.

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Showing male and female African labourers picking and crating oranges.

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Showing pioneers helping to push a wagon across the corduroy drift over the river. Photograph taken July 28th 1890.

Scope and Contents Collection of loose prints consisting of fifteen snapshots, most measuring approximately 85 x 55 mm., and eight postcards (original prints). The photographs have explanatory captions on the reverse; the postcards, which are stamped and postmarked on the print rather than on the reverse, were sent to Rudland's parents, Alderman and Mrs. H. Rudland of Sunderland, from the British South Africa Police Depot at Salisbury. Photographers unknown, but probably Henry Rudland and...

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A view from flat bush land towards an unidentified hill with a vertical cliff face on its right hand side backed by a rounded, lightly vegetated slope. Photograph taken about August 2nd.

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Showing a group of nurses seated on a flag-decked horse-drawn wagon. The caption continues 'Collecting in aid of Belgium Flag day. [?] Trolley just leaving from Hospital. Nurses are in ordinary clothes and rendered 1st Aid when necessary free of charge'.

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287 x 223 mm. View of a group of circular thatched huts where Rhodes' body rested on the night of 9 April. Homestead Westacre was a farm on land belonging to Rhodes in the Matopos.

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287 x 223 mm. Similar to Y3052M/17.

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285 x 218 mm. Similar to Y3052M/17 and 18.

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285 x 218 mm. Showing an open-sided thatched hut which shelters a table and chairs. It was presumably beneath this roof that Rhodes’ body lay on the night of 9 April.

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Showing the column’s horses grazing on pasture land in the foreground with the Savana Buli Rock rising beyond. Photograph taken about August 2nd.

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Showing three Africans standing outside the buildings.

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Showing the stone building with wooden verandahs which housed the Legislative Assembly from 1899 onwards. Built in 1895 as the Cecil Hotel it was purchased by the BSACo in 1898. Additions were made to the building in 1938, 1953 and 1970.

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73 x 51 mm. Showing a circular thatched hut, with others partially visible in the background.

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197 x 149 mm. Oval print. Showing one of the great domed granite hills which rise out of the bush in the country south of Fort Victoria with outspanned oxen grazing in the foreground. Exact location unknown. The photograph was probably taken in early August.

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192 x 235 mm. Showing a corner of the laager at an unidentified location with unsaddled horses grazing and an unidentified Pioneer standing in the foreground.

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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 view looking long one of the paths in the Public Gardens with shrubs and trees on either side.

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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.