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A view looking up the steep boulder strewn hillside towards the thatched huts of the village of the Karanga chief Mugabe which stands on the summit. An unidentified pioneer stands in the foreground. Photograph taken between August 13th – 19th.

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A panoramic view of the walls of the circular ruins with a breech in the centre and thick vegetation growing within the enclosed area. Ellerton Fry and a few companions visited and photographed the Zimbabwe ruins at some period between August 13-19 while the column was resting at Fort Victoria after the trek through the veld.

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203 x 151 mm. Showing the conical tower and walls at Zimbabwe.

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A view of the conical tower which stands at the south-eastern end of the circular building. Photograph taken between August 13th-19th.

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Showing part of the outer wall of the Elliptical Building at Great Zimbabwe, decorated with two rows of chevron patterns worked into the stonework near the top.

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Showing ruined walls overgrown with vegetation, probably at the western foot of Zimbabwe Hill. Photograph taken between August 13th – 19th.

Scope and Contents Showing two circular ‘daga’ and thatch huts with a stone wall beyond and the Union Jack flying in the background. ‘On the plateau near the head of the Pass, the Column laagered, and on rising ground a short distance away Colonel Pennefather ordered the construction of a fort. Strong stakes were driven into the earth to stand about six feet above the ground, and branches were woven into the interstices between them. At a distance of about twenty feet from the stockade a ditch five feet deep...

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Collection of loose prints, most mounted on card and measuring approximately 205 x 150 mm with typewritten captions pasted to the mounts. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Prints 3 and 7 are by Ronald D.K. Hadden and British Overseas Airways Corporation (B.O.A.C.) respectively.

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202 x 151 mm. A view from the Hill ruin looking out over the surrounding countryside, with the Elliptical Building at the right of the print.

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185 x 219 mm. A view looking towards the huge half dome of the Savana Buli Rock from the flat bush land at its base. A group of Pioneers with their horses can be seen in the long grass in the foreground. The photograph was taken about August 2.

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Showing a group of Karanga men seated on the ground on a level piece of land near the Summit of Zimbabwe Hill. Photograph taken between August 13th – 19th.

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Showing a street in the village lined with circular ‘daga’ and thatched huts interspersed with tall cactus trees. A few villagers stand in the foreground. Photograph taken about August 20th.

Scope and Contents Showing a wooden stockade with tightly packed thatched huts beyond and on the granite outcrop above. The exact location of Zimonto’s (Somoto’s) Kraal is not specified, but it presumably lay a short distance north of Fort Victoria. See Y3052B/8-9 for F.H. Surridge's photograph of the village, which he described in ‘Mashonaland and Matabeleland’ R.C.I. Proceedings, Vol XXII, 1890-1, 'Somoto's village, by the soft red rays of a tropical setting sun, was a picture not soon to be forgotten. In...

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A view of Somoto’s Kraal from a different angle and showing the entrance gateway in the wooden stockade. Photograph probably taken about August 20th.

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240 x 183 mm. Showing outspanned oxen grazing on the bank of the Lundi River. The photograph was taken about August 2.

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152 x 202 mm. A view looking along the curving passage between two high stone walls on the inner face of the outer wall of the Elliptical building at Zimbabwe.

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Showing part of the wall with a double row of chevrons patterned into the brickwork near the top. This chevron pattern is found at the south-eastern and north-eastern end of the circular ruins. Photograph taken between August 13th-19th.

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A view showing some of the ruined walls at Zimbabwe, probably taken from the east of the site. Photograph taken between August 13th – 19th.

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A view from the hill ruins looking south out over the valley towards the elliptical building (see Y3052A/110). Photograph taken between August 13th–19th.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Collection of prints inserted in a bound copy of the Rhodesia-Nyasaland Royal Commission Report (Cmd. 5949) 1939. Written on the title page is 'Illustrated with the Chairman's snapshot photographs.' Plate 1 is inside the front cover; the remainder are in pairs on sheets of paper bound into the volume at intervals. They are prints of sharp definition and high quality, mostly 140 x 90 mm, but numbers 5, 17, 18, 44, 46 and 47 are approximately 95 x 120 mm. All have hand-written captions. ...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Collection of prints inserted in a bound copy of the Rhodesia-Nyasaland Royal Commission Report (Cmd. 5949) 1939. Written on the title page is 'Illustrated with the Chairman's snapshot photographs.' Plate 1 is inside the front cover; the remainder are in pairs on sheets of paper bound into the volume at intervals. They are prints of sharp definition and high quality, mostly 140 x 90 mm, but numbers 5, 17, 18, 44, 46 and 47 are approximately 95 x 120 mm. All have hand-written captions. ...

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A view looking towards the hill ruins situated on a site to the north of the elliptical building (see Y3052A/110). A section of the old walls can be seen at the right of the print, with the thatched huts of the latter-day inhabitants dotted among the huge granite boulders of the north side (see Y3052A/114). Photograph taken between August 13th – 19th.