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John, holding a pipe sitting on a rock across from the Victoria Falls.

A view along the gorge towards the cascade of water.

John looking across the gorge to the Victoria Falls. He is wearing long woollen socks, shorts and a shirt with the sleeves rolled up. He has a watch on his wrist and has a camera slung from his shoulder.

Cascades of water into the gorge.

Harry sitting on the edge of the gorge opposite the cascade of water.

A panoramic view of the hotel and grounds. The hotel has two stories under a pitched tile roof. The lower half of the windows have open shutters and there are single storey buildings adjoining with am open colonnade showing doors beyond. There are…

Two men and two women swimming in the hotel pool. On the reverse 'John in the swimming pool of the Fall Hotel John Harry and the two girls'.

Two women wearing swimming costumes and two men in trunks by a swimming pool. The pool has a high wall to one side with arched entrances to a curtained area. The other sides are open onto trees. John is standing second right. On the reverse 'The 2…

A pool with a high wall to one side and open on another. There are two people in the pool with two women, wearing day dresses, standing to one side and three young men in shorts on the other side. The pool is set in gardens with trees and a lawned…

The two storey hotel with a tiled roof, a portico entrance and a balustrade at first floor level. The ground floor windows have shutters and there are palm trees and a pond in the formal front garden at the front.

Cascades of water falling into a gorge

A sign for the falls, describing its height above sea level and distances to Cape Town, Beira and Bulawayo.

A postcard sent by John to his parents showing three views of the falls and one view of the fall's bridge. Describing his arrival at the Falls Hotel and wishing his family a merry Christmas.

View of falls in the distance. On the reverse 'Victoria Falls (or part of it) July 1942'.

Top left - front quarter view of a de Havilland Dove surrounded by personnel. In front a truck with men in the rear. Captioned 'Refuelling at Luluaburg Belgium Congo'.
Top right - view of clouded sky from the air. Captioned 'Looking out of…

Captioned 'Victoria Falls (Main Falls)

Captioned 'Eastern Cataract Victoria Falls'.

Photograph of part of the Falls, captioned 'Victoria Falls'.

A lake with small floating pontoon and launch in foreground.

Four small photographs, first captioned 'Sebakwe Poort [Gorge].
Second captioned 'Sebakwe River'.
Third captioned 'Rhodesia, near Umtali'.
Fourth captioned 'Boating on Zambezi'.

Two prints of same picture of two airmen, wearing shorts and shirts standing at the foot of statue of David Livingstone with trees in the background. Ben Openshaw is on the left. On the reverse of first photograph 'Dr Livingstone I presume'.

Ben Openshaw (left) and an airmen by a cliff. The man in front is sitting wearing shorts, short sleeved shirt and side cap. In the background a huge waterfall.

A lone baboon sitting on grass in an open area. On the reverse 'Baboon, Victoria Falls hotel 1942'.

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A man in short sleeved shirt, shorts and side cap standing in a river by the edge of a cataract. In the distance the river disappears over a fall. On the reverse 'Pedro Walker, Victoria Falls. July 1942, (Devils Cataract)'.