Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A printed book containing tipped-in reproductions from photographs, all measuring 140 x 100 mm, with brief letterpress captions beneath the prints. The captions have been recorded as found and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. The prints are grainy with high contrast. Consequently, the images are listed rather than described in detail, although occasional notes and cross-references on points of interest have been added. The process used in the reproductions has not...

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This section includes copies of articles and notes that Gray assembled when researching his histories.

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204 x 155 mm. View looking along the tree-lined road which runs out of the town to the residential quarter of Reuben Point. Signed ‘J.Lazarus Photo’.

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204 x 153 mm. Showing a group of unidentified military figures on horseback at the Grand Review to celebrate the King of Portugal’s birthday. The occupation of the Boer base at Komatie Poort, situated 55 miles northwest of Lourenço Marques, at the end of Sept. 1900, marked the end of organised Boer resistance during the South African War. Signed ‘J & M Lazarus, Photos. Lço Marques.’

Scope and Contents Collection of five albums of family photographs, made up almost entirely of amateur snapshots between 80 x 60 mm. and 110 x 150 mm., and many of which are of purely personal interest. However, taken as a whole, they comprise a record of aspects of life in Rhodesia and elsewhere in Africa of interest to the social historian. The albums are carefully annotated by Zöe Ellison towards the end of her life (she died in Cambridge on 4 August 1986, only a fortnight after her last letter to the RCS...

Scope and Contents 191 x 138 mm. View looking along the unsurfaced street lined with small single storey houses which ran parallel to the harbour frontage between the Praça Azeredo Gardens and the Praça Mousinho D’Albuquerque. A note on the mount reads ‘as it was in 1895 now entirely different with large buildings erected'. The absence of any signature on the print makes it possible that the photograph was indeed taken around this time before the Lazarus Brothers had set up their business. The only two...

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206 x 153 mm. View looking along the tree-lined street with a verandahed house in the left foreground. The exact location is unknown but it may be part of the avenue which ran north from the Delagoa Bay Iron Works. Signed ‘J.Lazarus Photo’.

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200 x 151 mm. Group portrait of European administrators and African labourers, with J.A. Alexander in centre of group.

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194 x 140 mm. Showing the fine residential houses with beautiful gardens set among grassland on the hillside to the north-east of the town. Signed ‘J.E.M. Photo’.

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194 x 140 mm. View similar to the preceding print but taken from a greater distance and with an expanse of sandy land in the foreground. Signed ‘J.E.M. Photo’.

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87 x 83 mm. Showing a thatched bungalow on the estate.

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80 x 105 mm. Showing a corrugated iron roofed bungalow.

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204 x 155 mm. View of the substantial verandahed premises on Avenida Aguiar which opened in 1899. Within a few years it became a private hotel. Signed ‘J. Lazarus Photo’.

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206 x 155 mm. View looking across the lawn towards the two storey wooden building with veranda which housed the East and South African Telegraph Company. The exact location in the town is unknown, but it was probably on land behind the residential quarter at Reuben Point. Signed ‘J and M Lazarus, Lourenço Marques’.

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80 x 104 mm.

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The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

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82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, undated captions.

Scope and Contents A collection of thirty-two loose prints, measuring approximately 205 x 155 mm. and mounted on card. The majority of which are captioned and signed by the photographer. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Titles composed by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets. Showing views in and around Lourenço Marques at the turn of the century, including street scenes, individual buildings and dances. At this period, the town was just starting the economic...

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An album containing albumen prints of various sizes. The album shows views in Durban, Pietermaritzburg and a few from Mozambique. The majority of the images are briefly captioned; captions composed for untitled prints are enclosed in square brackets.

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199 x 133 mm. A view looking along the harbour waterfront, probably at Mozambique, with large whitewashed houses lining the wharf area.