Rhodesia and Nyasaland
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
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Found in 53 Collections and/or Records:
Native Associations, 1935-1971
File — Box CLX-A-23: Series Coll-490/20; Series Coll-490/21
Identifier: Coll-490/20/2
Scope and Contents
Letters, memos, etc. Most refer to The Royal Commission.
Letter: Roger Tangri, Free Town, Sierra Leone, to Professor Shepperson. Sends papers from Isaiah Murray Jere's collection. 28 June 1971. The Representative Committee for Northern Province Native Associations, Zomba, Nyasaland.
Subjects suggested by the Committee for the consideration of Native Associations. June 1935.
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Dates:
1935-1971
Newspaper Cuttings, 1953-1954
File — Box CLX-A-17: Series Coll-490/8; Series Coll-490/9
Identifier: Coll-490/9/2
Scope and Contents
Newspaper Cuttings, 1953-1954.
Dates:
1953-1954
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 and Correspondence of Professor George Albert Shepperson
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-490
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of papers, articles, correspondence, publications, photographs, audio-visual material, and artefacts of Professor George "Sam" Shepperson, a prominent scholar of African and American African history, and Malawi specialist. This includes, among other things, papers and correspondence relating to central and eastern Africa with special reference to Malawi and Tanzania (including correspondence of Julius Nyerere); papers on nationalism in Nyasaland (Malawi), including...
Dates:
late 19th-century - late 20th century
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
Papers of Dorothy Webb relating to Southern Rhodesia
Fonds — Box CLX-A-386
Identifier: Coll-2050
Content Description
Papers relating to the settling and occupation of lands and farms by British settlers in Southern Rhodesia from the 1890s to the 1960s, compiled and saved from destruction by Mr Webb when Robert Mugabe was destroying records in Zimbabwe.The first file is entitled "Lomagundi - S. S. Ranch Ext.", and has two bundles labelled "notices / gazettes" and "blank forms". The first bundle contains advertising pamphlets, gazettes, and paperwork relating to the purchase of land by settlers...
Dates:
1892-1962
Papers of Kenneth Mackenzie
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-64
Scope and Contents
Contains material relating to Central Africa, 1958-64, and to Rhodesia, 1965-70. There is material on South Africa particularly on apartheid, the Springbok tour, and arms for South Africa; Congo; race relations; colour and citizenship; the United Nations; the UK; and, Sweden and other countries. There are newspaper cuttings and also pamphlets, the latter on African independence, the Church, Sweden, the rule of law, politics, immigration, Rhodesia, South Africa, and international agencies. In...
Dates:
1958-1971
Parosse Natives in Dug-Outs on Zambesi, Rhodesia, 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1019
Scope and Contents
Photograph of Parosse natives standing in dug-outs or canoes on the Zambesi River in Rhodesia in the early 20th century.
Dates:
1870s-1930s
Photographs, late 19th century-1982
Series — Box CLX-A-34: Series Coll-490/Phot.
Identifier: Coll-490/Phot.
Scope and Contents
This series contains photographs, mostly black and white. Most depict missions in Nyasaland/Malawi, and their people (both African and European).
Photographs of missions, of African people, and of European people. No captions.
Photographs sent and captioned by Josephine Cunningham Edwards, featuring missions in Malawi, with Malawian and European people. See "Coll-490/22/COR3".
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Dates:
late 19th century-1982