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203 x 157 mm. A view from the top of a hill of excavated earth looking down onto the asbestos mine buildings.

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203 x 157 mm. The caption on the reverse reads 'tribal capital of the Bamangwato. It is one of the four villages in the Protectorate with a population of more than 10,000. This photograph was taken from the Khama Memorial above Serowe'. A more lengthy caption summarises the physical and human geography of the Bechuanaland Protectorate.

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 ...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Collection of negatives, contact prints and enlargements. Mann travelled from London, which he left on 20 June 1935, via Egypt to the Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Belgian Congo, French Equatorial Africa and the Cameroons to South Africa, arriving in Johannesburg on 31 October. 1-516 are enlargements of Mann's photographs and 517-575 are photographic postcards, chiefly of the Sudan. In addition there is a box containing the original negatives 45 x 45 mm with contact prints, but these have...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Collection of negatives, contact prints and enlargements. Mann travelled from London, which he left on 20 June 1935, via Egypt to the Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Belgian Congo, French Equatorial Africa and the Cameroons to South Africa, arriving in Johannesburg on 31 October. 1-516 are enlargements of Mann's photographs and 517-575 are photographic postcards, chiefly of the Sudan. In addition there is a box containing the original negatives 45 x 45 mm with contact prints, but these have...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Collection of negatives, contact prints and enlargements. Mann travelled from London, which he left on 20 June 1935, via Egypt to the Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Belgian Congo, French Equatorial Africa and the Cameroons to South Africa, arriving in Johannesburg on 31 October. 1-516 are enlargements of Mann's photographs and 517-575 are photographic postcards, chiefly of the Sudan. In addition there is a box containing the original negatives 45 x 45 mm with contact prints, but these have...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Collection of negatives, contact prints and enlargements. Mann travelled from London, which he left on 20 June 1935, via Egypt to the Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Belgian Congo, French Equatorial Africa and the Cameroons to South Africa, arriving in Johannesburg on 31 October. 1-516 are enlargements of Mann's photographs and 517-575 are photographic postcards, chiefly of the Sudan. In addition there is a box containing the original negatives 45 x 45 mm with contact prints, but these have...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Collection of negatives, contact prints and enlargements. Mann travelled from London, which he left on 20 June 1935, via Egypt to the Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Belgian Congo, French Equatorial Africa and the Cameroons to South Africa, arriving in Johannesburg on 31 October. 1-516 are enlargements of Mann's photographs and 517-575 are photographic postcards, chiefly of the Sudan. In addition there is a box containing the original negatives 45 x 45 mm with contact prints, but these have...

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140 x 83 mm. A view from above looking down into the Lobatsi Gorge south of Serowe and showing a railway locomotive drawing freight trucks along the side of the valley. Beneath the railway is the Lobatsi Dam.

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65 x 41 mm. The term Bushmen was used to describe a group of Khoisan-speaking hunter-gatherers who lived in the Kalahari Desert. Reproduced in Hodson facing p 49.

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65 x 41 mm. Showing a posed group of Damara refuges (see introduction) standing in rocky scrubland. A photograph taken during Hodson’s May 1905 expedition (see Hodson p 91ff).

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Showing a group of pioneer officers posed in front of the wagon behind which a flag (probably the BSA Co. flag, a Union flag in the centre of which stands a lion guardant passant holding a tusk of ivory) flies on a pole. The figures are too indistinct for positive identification, but Heany, Pennefather, Johnson and Selous can be made out. Photograph probably taken at Macloutsie camp, June 1890.

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65 x 41 mm. Showing a group of Damara refugees (see introduction) walking through grassland. Reproduced in Hodson facing p 93 where the location is identified as Otse. Hodson found about 250 refugees at Otse, many of whom were suffering from smallpox and on the verge of starvation. After destroying their arms and giving strict instructions that the group should isolate themselves, Hodson arranged for their transfer to Kgentsa.

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65 x 41 mm. Showing an African servant holding an oxen’s bridle, with a European figure standing behind the animal.

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204 x 156 mm. Showing a row of small government houses with a family working on a vegetable patch in the foreground. A more lengthy caption summarises the physical and human geography of the Bechuanaland Protectorate.

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142 x 83 mm. Showing a group of Africans being addressed by a European officer of the Bechuanaland Protectorate Police at a camp in the veldt.

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Showing thatched huts within a wooden enclosure at Palapye.

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204 x 157 mm. Showing a line of women, with babies on their backs, walking across rocky scrubland in the Bamangwato Reserve. A more lengthy caption summarises the physical and human geography of the Bechuanaland Protectorate.

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An index to newscuttings on Abyssinia, Protectorates (RCMS 334/7/3) and the Union of South Africa (RCMS 334/7/6). The Abyssinia entries are for newscuttings of 1936, but the collection does not include cuttings from this year. There is no indication of when the index was produced.

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201 x 156 mm. Showing a worker feeding a length of hide into machinery at Sashi Tannery.

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65 x 41 mm. Showing oxen being hitched in a camp in the Kalahari.

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188 x 156 mm. Showing African workers operating pipe bending machinery with factory buildings and plant in the background.

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140 x 83 mm. A view from the riverbank looking towards the junction of the two rivers.

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65 x 41 mm. Showing cattle in the pan at Kakea between Kooi and Kokong, with a brushed shelter in the foreground. Photograph taken during Hodson’s first trek, August 1904. Reproduced in Hodson facing p 24.