Archival Significance
Draws on the photographic archive of DRUM magazine, one of the most influential mid-twentieth-century African news and lifestyle publications, to construct a visual history of Zimbabwe spanning over a century.
Institutional Context
Compiled from Bailey’s African Photo Archives, the photographic collection built around DRUM founder Jim Bailey’s publishing operations, edited by Tom Hopkinson and Tim Couzens.
Content Summary
A photographic history spanning colonisation in 1890 through to the early 1990s, drawing on decades of DRUM magazine’s visual documentation of the region.
Research Utility
Useful for researchers of visual history and African print media, and as a source of photographic documentation spanning a century that is otherwise scattered across periodical archives.
Abantu Archives Note
Held in-house.