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Link to larger image of RCS Y305J/166
Classmark: RCS Y305J/166
Originator: Unknown
Title: Zulu policemen
Description: Showing two uniformed Zulus of the Natal police, carrying knobkerries in one hand and spears in the other.
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Link to larger image of RCS Y3011R/29
Classmark: RCS Y3011R/29
Originator: Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Central Office of Information
Title: Miss Mensah goes to vote
Description: The caption on the reverse reads 'The last stage in Miss Mensah's voting. She drops her marked and folded paper in the sealed ballot box'....
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Link to larger image of RCS Y3011U/405
Classmark: RCS Y3011U/405
Originator: Unknown
Title: Service with the Kenya Police in the north is certainly 'Active'
Description: Showing a group of armed Kenya Police climbing a rock in search of cattle raiders. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'Cattle raiders are well armed, casualties not uncommon'.
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Link to larger image of RCS Y3052L/54
Classmark: RCS Y3052L/54
Originator: Bathurst, Charles, 1867-1958, 1st Viscount Bledisloe
Title: Natives assembled to be taxed, in a native kraal, S.R. [? Southern Rhodesia (i.e. Zimbabwe)]
Description: The Rhodesia-Nyasaland Royal Commission arrived at Bulawayo...
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Link to larger image of RCS Y3052L/55
Classmark: RCS Y3052L/55
Originator: Bathurst, Charles, 1867-1958, 1st Viscount Bledisloe
Title: The tax collection [? Southern Rhodesia (i.e. Zimbabwe)]
Description: Showing a man sitting at a desk in front of a thatched building, with three uniformed men standing in the foreground.
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