Jumbo Guide to Rhodesia
Archival Significance A promotional tourist guide commissioned by Standard Bank and distributed free to customers, reflecting how Rhodesian commercial institutions used tourism literature as a form of corporate goodwill and…
Maps
Student’s Notes on the History of Africa in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Archival Significance post-independence An examination-preparation text reprinted under licence specifically for the Zimbabwean market and restricted from sale outside the country, reflecting how UK educational publishers adapted distribution for post-independence…
A Guide Book to the Victoria Falls
Author Jonah Woods with a Foreward by J. Desmond Clark Publisher Stuart Manning, Bulawayo Publishing date 1960 Printed in the Union of South Africa by Cape Times Limited, Cape Town…
The Commonwealth – A Geography
Author H.R. Storey, B.A. Publisher Longmans of Rhodesia (Pvt.) Limited Beatrice Road, Salisbury, Rhodesia – Associated companies, branches and representatives throughout the world First published 1959 Second edition 1964 Second…
Guide to Rhodesia for the use of Tourists and Settlers with Illustrations Maps & Plans
Archival Significance Issued in 1924 by the Beira and Mashonaland and Rhodesia Railways’ London office, this guide reflects the railway company’s direct commercial interest in promoting both tourism and settlement…
Kariba – The Struggle with the River God
Archival Significance Written by Frank Clements, this 1959 account of the Kariba Dam’s construction addresses both the engineering project itself and the BaTonga resettlement it required, published while the dam,…
Oxford Regional Economic Atlas of Africa
Archival Significance Billed as the first atlas to treat the entire African continent extensively within the Oxford Regional Economic Atlas series, which had previously covered the Middle East and North…
BP Padkaarte – Road maps of Southern Africa
Archival Significance A bilingual (Afrikaans/English) promotional road atlas distributed by British Petroleum, covering the Republic of South Africa, South West Africa, and the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, reflecting the…
Official Yearbook of Southern Rhodesia
Southern Rhodesia Central African Statistical Office Volume No. 4 – 1952 With statistics mainly up to 1950 Published under the Authority of the Ministry of Finance Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia: Rhodesian…
Map of the Zimbabwe Ruins
Archival Significance A tourist-oriented cartographic pamphlet of Great Zimbabwe, produced under its Rhodesian-era name ‘Zimbabwe Ruins’, a naming convention that itself reflects the colonial-era reluctance to attribute the site’s construction…