Beschreibung:

W. Ellerton Fry
Occupation of Mashonaland. London: printed by the author, 1891
154 mounted carbon prints, on 41 stiff card mounts, each with caption printed on mount, manuscript list of "Group of Officers | Pioneer Corps" depicted in second image loosely inserted, original green three-quarter morocco gilt folio album (457 x 301mm.), upper cover lettered in gilt, gilt edges, Fry's copyright notice mounted on front pastedown, spotting to mounts, binding detached, extremities rubbed
One of approximately 12 albums believed to have been assembled, of Fry's self-published photograph album, which serves as a remarkable photographic record of British colonial ambitions. The carbon prints depict the landscape and events along the line of march of the Mashonaland Pioneer Column, a military force in the service of Cecil Rhodes and the British South Africa Company, whose aim was to annex Mashonaland and Matebeleland. Fry was this group's official photographer.
[With:]
Green morocco gilt 4to album (296 x 241mm.), containing cuttings from various newspaper reports on the Matabele Revolt, dated 1896-1907, mounted recto and verso on 19 stiff card mounts, one further newspaper cutting, and loosely inserted photograph on card mount
PROVENANCE:Lieutenant R. Beal (one of the officers in the handwritten list); given to Annie Beal: Annie Beal's ownership inscription to front free endpaper of Occupation, dated 1 June 1892, and with Beal's Certificate of Discharge from her occupation as a nurse aboard HMS Centurion, dated 31 October 1898, loosely inserted in album of newspaper cuttings; thence by descent