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Matopo Hills (hills)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:

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A picnic party at the Matapos, 1928-07-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 353/2/86
Scope and Contents

Lto R. Major Smith, Mr Voss, Major Gordon, Mr Smailes & Mr Tucker

Dates: 1928-07-09
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Another group at the Matopos, 1928-07-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 353/2/87
Scope and Contents

L to R: Mr & Mrs Tucker, Miss Smith, Mrs Smith, Major Smith, Mr & Mrs Voss, Miss Yeadon, & Major Gordon.

Dates: 1928-07-09
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Bulawayo picnic, 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/9/71
Scope and Contents

75 x 52 mm. A group of people in the Matopos Hills.

Dates: 1929
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Cecil Rhodes grave in Matopo Hills, 1924 - 1931

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047B/89
Scope and Contents

80 x 85 mm. A view showing the grave of Cecil Rhodes on the hill top in the Matopo Hills about 30 miles south of Bulawayo.

Dates: 1924 - 1931
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Cecil Rhodes' grave on the Matopos Hills, 1928-07-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 353/4/18
Scope and Contents

The inscription is 'Here lie the remains of Cecil Rhodes.' Print at RCMS 353/2/84.

Dates: 1928-07-09
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Cecil Rhodes' grave on the Matopos Hills, 1928-07-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 353/2/84
Scope and Contents

The inscription is 'Here lie the remains of Cecil Rhodes.'

Dates: 1928-07-09
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Group at Matopos Hills], 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/9/70
Scope and Contents

120 x 73 mm.

Dates: 1929
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Group at Matopos Hills], 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/9/69
Scope and Contents

122 x 74 mm.

Dates: 1929
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Matopo Hills, Rhodes' grave, 1902 - 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCS/XII/19
Scope and Contents From the File:

Nothing is known of the provenance of this collection of lantern slides and glass plates. The images likely were created to illustrate lectures given at the RCS.

Dates: 1902 - 1930
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Matopos Hills, 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/9/65
Scope and Contents

73 x 118 mm. A group of people on the top of a hill.

Dates: 1929
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Matopos Hills], 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/9/68
Scope and Contents

77 x 51 mm. A woman seated on rocks next to a river, probably at the Matopos Hills.

Dates: 1929
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Royal Commission, with Staff and others, at Matopo Hills, S.R. , 1938-05-16

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052L/1
Scope and Contents

Twenty persons are showing in the photograph. The Royal Commission comprised Viscount Bledisloe (Chairman), Patrick Ashley Cooper, Ernest Evans, Thomas Fitzgerald, William Henry Mainwaring, and Ian Leslie Orr-Ewing, with George Frederick Seel as Secretary.

Dates: 1938-05-16
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Shangani Memorial, 1903 - 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052E/5
Scope and Contents

Showing the stone monument inset with a bronze relief of members of the Shangani Patrol erected in the Matopos Hills.

Dates: 1903 - 1904
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The hill on which Rhodes is buried. He called the view from the top "The Worlds view", 1928-07-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 353/4/19
Scope and Contents

Print at RCMS 353/2/85.

Dates: 1928-07-09
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The hill on which Rhodes is burried. He called the view from the top "The Worlds view", 1928-07-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 353/2/85
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Album of mostly 80 x 54 mm prints. There is a brief list describing items 1-98, which document the trip from Southampton to South Africa, travel in South Africa, and the visit to Southern Rhodesia. Many photos do not appear in the exact numerical order given in the listing. The rest of the images are uncaptioned, but their general locations have been identified by reference to the diary RCMS 353/1.

Dates: 1928-07-09
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The place where Rhodes' coffin spent the last night on its way to the Matopos, 1928-07-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 353/2/88
Scope and Contents

During his life he held a number of receptions here. It is quite close to his own farm.

Dates: 1928-07-09
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Xmas Card prepared by myself for the staff, Bulawayo-Rhodesia's largest centre, 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052D/12
Scope and Contents

A photograph of a Christmas card composed of a montage of 6 photographs showing the Alan Wilson Memorial ( Shangani Patrol Memorial, see Y3052E/6); the Victoria Falls; Cecil Rhodes' grave in the Matopos; Rhodes Statue, Bulawayo; the Telegraph Office, Bulawayo; and the Telegraph Staff, Bulawayo.

Dates: 1904
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).