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Contains Kodachromes originally arranged in two sequences, which have been listed by processing number: 1-37 (numbers 11, 19 and 31 mare missing).

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Contains Kodachromes originally arranged in two sequences, which have been listed by processing number: 1-37 (numbers 11, 19 and 31 mare missing).

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207 x 133 mm. view of the town from a promontory.

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207 x 133 mm. view of the town taken from above, but from much closer than Y30549E/2. The photograph is numbered 217.

Scope and Contents This broad heading has been used to cover a substantial collection of loose prints, dating chiefly from the period 1960-1982, but including a few of earlier date. The majority come from the files of the RCS journal known successfully as ‘United Empire,’ ‘Commonwealth Journal,’ and ‘Commonwealth,’ in which some were published, but there are also items obtained for inclusion in the exhibition ‘Commonwealth in Focus’ in 1982 and these are indicated by CIF and the catalogue number in the...

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Water colours and pen and ink sketches documenting Anderson's travels in southern Africa, accompanied by his original captions and explanatory notes. The original titles and captions have been enclosed in single quotation marks, and have been transcribed in the catalogue as found, with the exception of an egregiously offensive term used in some titles, which has not been transcribed. Where possible, modern place names have been supplied.

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Water colours and pen and ink sketches documenting Anderson's travels in southern Africa, accompanied by his original captions and explanatory notes. The original titles and captions have been enclosed in single quotation marks, and have been transcribed in the catalogue as found, with the exception of an egregiously offensive term used in some titles, which has not been transcribed. Where possible, modern place names have been supplied.

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65 x 41 mm. Showing an orderly on horseback with a gun carriage in the background. Photograph probably taken at Gabarones.

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65 x 41 mm. Showing a group of African servants and three horses eating from a pile of wild Kalahari melons. Reproduced in Hodson facing p 90, where the location is identified as Ngoatie.

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65 x 41 mm. Showing Hodson’s orderly riding on an ox and armed with a rifle.

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65 x 41 mm. Showing the span of oxen grazing, with Hodson’s small scotchcart in the background.

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207 x 133 mm. view of an African woman and children in front of a hatched clay hut. The photograph is numbered 219.

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Showing the LMS missionary Rev. James Davidson Hepburn and an unidentified European standing in front of the waterfall in the wooded gorge near Hepburn’s house at Palapye. Photograph probably taken October 1890.

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[From the air].

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Contains Kodachromes originally arranged in two sequences, which have been listed by processing number: 1-37 (numbers 11, 19 and 31 mare missing).

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Showing the earth and boulder stockade at the BSA Co. base camp near the Macloutsie. Photograph probably taken in October 1890.

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The caption reads, 'My driver asleep after a good dinner. Outspanning place at the pan six miles from bend of Crocodile going to Mongwater.'

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82 x 78 mm. Showing a campsite in the bush with a group of outspanned oxen standing near a wagon and a European squatting beside fire in the foreground.

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65 x 41 mm. Showing Hodson’s span of oxen eating melons (see Y30549A/4) at a camp site, with a group of Africans and a scotchcart in the background.

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65 x 41 mm. Showing an oxen being loaded up with the wild melons to be used as water during a journey. Reproduced in Hodson facing p 39, where the location is identified as Otse, visited during Hodson’s October 1904 trek. See also Y30549A/4.

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Showing a troop of mounted pioneers in formation on cleared ground at Macloutsie Camp. The review, which took place in mid-June, was inspected by Major Gerneral the Hon. Paul Methuen, Adjutant-General of the Force in South Africa and later Governor of Natal, who pronounced the column properly prepared for the trek.

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Showing part of the line of tents seen in Y3052A/31 with a troop of mounted pioneers (blurred) at the left of the print. See Y3052A/31.

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Showing a troop of mounted pioneers with light field pieces in the background. See Y3052A/32.

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Showing a troop of mounted pioneers, probably obscured by a tree in the foreground. See Y3052A/32.

Scope and Contents Three photographs of the town, now part of Botswana, and one perhaps taken in its environs, by the South African photographer Thomas Daniel (T.D.) Ravenscroft. The captions have been used as titles and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. They have been retained to reflect the context of their creation.Ravenscroft began working as a photographer in the late 1880s and established a studio at Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa. All four photographs are...