Royal Commonwealth Society : Photographs of the South African High Commission Territories: photographs acquired for the Colonial Office Visual Instruction...

Royal Commonwealth Society

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Contains prints of various sizes with handwritten captions on the reverse and taken by various photographers: E.S.W. Green (Sub-Inspector of Police, Basutoland), R.W. Booth (Clerk and Assistant Resident Magistrate, Bechuanaland), Quartermaster Sergeant Fosdyce [i.e. Fosdyke] (Bechuanaland Protectorate Police), Lieutenant G.B. Moseley (Sub-Inspector of Police, Bechuanaland) and others unidentified. The captions have been transcribed as found and may include language which is inaccurate, outdated or inappropriate. </p><p style='text-align: justify;'>The photographs break down into geographical units thus: Y30546A/1-14 Basutoland [now Lesotho], E.S.W. Green; Y30546A/15-31 Basutoland, R.W. Booth; Y30546A/32-44, Swaziland [now Eswatini], photographer unknown; Y30546A/45-54, photographer unknown; Y30546A/55-60, Bechuanaland [now Botswana], E.O. Butler; Y30546A/61-70, Bechuanaland, Q.M.S. Fosdyke B.P.P.; Y30546A/71-77, Bechuanaland, Lt G.B. Moseley; Y30546A/78-81, Lt G.B. Moseley; Y03546A/82-90, Bloemfontein, Southern Rhodesia [now Zimbabwe], Batchelor.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Digitisation funded through a Smuts library grant, 2019.</p>