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- 1885 - 1930 (Creation)
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228 items
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Correspondence, diary, telegrams, reports, notes, printed items, scrap-book, photographs, share certificates and photograph albums relating principally to Rhodesia, the Charter Company, the gold mining concession from Lobengula and the Matabele Rebellion. Other subjects are the Warren expedition to Bechuanaland 1885 and a visit to Tunisia by Maund in 1887. The scrap-book relates to gold mining on the Witwatersrand 1896-1898 including items on the Barnato Group of Companies (J.C.I.), Chamber of Mines, Black labour, the Gold Law, the cyanide process and a report of the Industrial Commission of Enquiry, 1897, appointed by the Volksraad.
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Correspondents include G. Baden-Powell, G. Cawston, G. Dawson, P.W. Forbes, Lord Gifford, H.M. Hole, Sir L.S. Jameson, F. Johnson, Chief Khama, Lord Knutsford, Chief Lobengula, J.G. McDonald, Sir C. Warren.