Skip to main content

Rhodesia and Nyasaland

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For =

Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:

Ankole-Watusi Cattle, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/777
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a herd of Ankole-Watusi cattle in northern Rhodesia in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Cattle Essexvale, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/468
Scope and Contents

Photograph of [Nguni] cows and a calf in a field in Essexvale [Rhodesia] (now known as Esigodini, Zimbabwe) in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Correspondence relating to Copper Mining in Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), 1960-1962

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-688
Scope and Contents

This material is incoming correspondence relating to Coleman's research into Northern Rhodesian (Zambian) copper mining. There are also 4 photographs, three of which are copies of an image of Nchanga incline shaft in 1927, and one of Nchanga football team.

Dates: 1960-1962

In a Rhodesian Forest, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3237
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a man holding a rifle standing next to a large, fallen tree in a Rhodesian forest in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Interior Dining Car Rhodesia Railways, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1017
Scope and Contents

Photograph of the interior of a dining car on the Rhodesia Railways in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Letter to Dr Mary Gardner Grierson from Stewart Hore-Brown, 07 August 1952

 Item
Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L2054
Scope and Contents

Letter, 7 August 1952, Rhodesia, Stewart Hore-Brown to Mary Grierson. Recollections of Tovey. Holograph signed, with envelope.

Dates: 07 August 1952

Marriott's, Mazoe [Rhodesia], 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2605
Scope and Contents

Photograph of [H. H.] Marriott's tobacco farm in Mazoe, [Rhodesia] in the early 20th century. The image shows a group of African men, women and children standing on a hill in front of a farm house or barn.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Output of Gold, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1044
Scope and Contents

Text and figures discussing the output of gold in Souther Rhodesia between 1891 and 1907 - total of 2,601,830 ounces at a value of £9,300,000. It also notes the amounts of silver, lead, coal, copper, wolfarmite ore, scheelite, chrome iron ore, antimony, diamonds and other precious stones produced.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Papers of Colin Legum

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-693
Scope and Contents This collection comprises the papers of Colin Legum, an Anti-Apartheid activist and political exile, and later newpaper political correspondent. It includes correspondence files, committee minutes, freelance articles, files in legal document wallets labelled alphabetically, office filing, published periodicals, journals, research files, press cuttings, notes, publications, and newspapers relating to the post-colonial history of many countries mostly in Africa, but also in the Middle East and...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1950s-1970s

Papers of David Clement Ruffell Scott

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-223
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of nineteen letters from Scott to his close friend the Reverend James Robertson written mainly from Blantyre, Nyasaland (Malawi) from the time of his arrival in 1881 to 1895, the year in which his wife and brother died. They describe in some detail the work of the mission and his experiences in Africa.

Dates: 1881-1895