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Showing a group of six Europeans gathered in front of the small corrugated-iron Telegraph and Post Office at Palapye with an enclosure of thatched huts in the background. The group of men, all unidentified, are probably in BSA Co. service.

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The caption reads, 'The women and children go round on the outside, clapping their hands and singing in tune with the music. The reeds are held perpendicular and some are six feet long. The natives attend to listen. South Central Africa, 1867. At the full moon more particularly they indulge in this music, a happy people.'

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Showing a group of pioneers in the foreground with grazing oxen and wagons beyond. A forerunner of the British South Africa Company, The Bechuanaland Exploration Company was registered in 1888 to develop the mining concession granted to the Northern Goldfields Exploration Syndicate by Chief Khama of the Bamangwato the previous year. Exact location unknown, probably photographed either at Mafeking in May 1890 or during the trek through Bechuanaland to Macloutsie.

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202 x 156 mm. Showing the small single storey council chamber at Serowe.

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A printed book illustrated by photographic prints. The captions have been used as titles and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. The book resulted from a journey from Cape Town via Kimberley and the Transvaal to the Victoria Falls and back to Port Elizabeth.

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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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203 x 157 mm. Showing two horse-drawn ploughs at work beside one drawn by a tractor.

Scope and Contents Modern copy. A group portrait of the 19 officers in front of a row of wagons, probably at Macloutsie in June 1890. Several of the figures are identified in pencil beneath the print. W.D. Gale in ‘One Man’s Vision: The Story of Rhodesia’ (London, 1935) reproduces this photograph and gives a complete list. Gale’s identifications are as follows: (back row, left to right) Lieut. Farrell, Lieut. Frank Mandy, Dr Tabateau, Dr Lichfield, Capt. Roach, Capt. Hoste, Lieut. Barrow, Lieut. A. Campbell,...

Scope and Contents Modern copy. A group portrait of the British South Africa Company Police Officers attached to the Pioneer Column photographed against a backdrop of foliage. This picture was probably taken at the Expedition base camp at Macloutsie in June 1890, where the police had laid out a camp in anticipation of the arrival of the Pioneer Column. The officers pictured here are identified both beneath the print and by Colonel Colin Harding in ‘Frontier Patrols’ (London, 1937) where the photograph is...

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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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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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202 x 111 mm. A head on view of a goods train on the line through the Lobatse Gorge (in Bechuanaland rather than Rhodesia).

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65 x 41 mm. Showing Hodson’s scotchcart and another wagon

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128 x 102 mm. A view from downriver looking back towards the dam and reservoir. The Tati Concessions, centred around Francistown, were originally part of Matabeleland. Gold was discovered in the area in the mid 1860s and a mineral concession, which passed through many hands, was obtained from Lobengula in 1869 and lasted up to independence.

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128 x 102. Showing two men (one holding a fishing rod) and a dog on the bank of the Tsessebe Dam reservoir.

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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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99 x 122 mm. Showing a derailed locomotive and carriages, with subsided track in the foreground. Taungs lies on the Hartz River 80 miles north of Kimberley.

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98 x 122 mm. Showing a section of collapsed track hanging over the side of an embankment, with groups of labourers at work repairing the line.

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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 a servant, dressed in European clothes and holding a rifle, holding up the head and neck of the dead ostrich. Reproduced in Hodson facing p. 118 where the location is identified as Polanchow; the journey during which this hunting expedition took place is described in Chapter VII.

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85 x 85 mm. Negative only.

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65 x 41 mm. Showing a group of Bakalahadi women grinding a pile of berries laid in an animal skin with a large wooden pestle. Reproduced in Hodson facing p 90, where the location is identified as Ngoatie.

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65 x 41 mm. Showing a captured Gemsbok on a tether.