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

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

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

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.

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

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

120 x 73 mm.

122 x 74 mm.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Print at RCMS 353/2/85.

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.

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

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.