Photographs selected from the Gemini Photograph Library related to Zambia.
GP348 Kay Sifuniso, the first black, female, Zambian, journalist posing in a dress in Lusaka. Black and white photo.
GP436 - GP439 Portraits of Zambian women showcasing and doing different Zambian hair styles. Black and white photos.
GP445 Ted Cunneen of Zambian Diary Produce Board with his 'magic' High Protein Milk Biscuits. ZA2-1F70 written on the description. 7617/1 written on back of photo. From the Zambia Information Service. Black and white photo.
GP441 Mporokoso, Northern Zambia: School in the Valley of the Blind run by Sisters of the Infant Jesus. The boys school band practice, playing their instruments. Photo from the Zambia Information Service. Black and white photo.
GP442 Young Charles Pascal [Mulenga] a blind boy part of the School in the Valley of the Blind run by Sisters of the Infant Jesus in Mporokoso, Northern Zambia, plays the piano for the first time with the help of Father Carriere. The piano was donated by the Lasaka Lions club and flown to the school by the Zambia Air Force. Photo from the Zambia Information Service. Black and white photo.
GP440 and GP371 (Identical negatives) 'Chinese Engineers of the Tanzam Railway being escorted to State House, Lusaka, for a talk with President Kaunda'. ZA2-2J70 written on negative GP440. Negatives. Original black and white print photo on next page. For copied photo see GP330.
GP345 President of Sri Lanka Junius Richard Jayewardene talking to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher beside President of Australia Robert Hawke and President of Zambia Kenneth Kaunda. Credit RCS written on back. Black and white photo.
GP443 Zambian star actor Edwin Manda as Othello next to woman co-star. Black and white photo and negative.
GP389 'A typical African herbalist displaying his herbs and tools for healing the sick in Lusaka'. Has a sign as well that says 'African Doctor'. Black and white photo.
GP392 'British wildlife artist David Shepherd, a member of Washington headquartered Wildlife Conservation International, next to a helicopter presented to the Zambian government to hunt poachers, with President Kaunda'. Women in the background. Zambia Information Services stamp on the back of the photo with 8174/6. Black and white photo.
GP391 Transparency of an image of a stack of books that says: URGENT: Ranfurly Library Service Round the World. 'Sheet says 'Campaign to save a sacred initiation camp'. PH 3 Zambia.
GP390 The Jackson family outside their Zambian home. Jamaican engine driver Wilston Jackson, once Britain's only black engine driver, gets handed a lunch bag by his Burmese (now Myanmar) wife Mrs. Jackson, while their three children Pauline, Maurine and Victor wave. Dog in the picture as well. Black and white photo.
GP393 The closing of the East and Central African heads of state summit conference. President Kaunda leading members in the singing of the UNIP (United National Independence Party) national anthem "Tiyende Pa Modzi" ("Let's March Together") in the conference hall. Dedicated before to the revolution in Zambia, and now to the revolution in Africa, said Kaunda. Stamp of Zambia Information Services on the back. Black and white photo.
GP394 Miss Gwen Konie with a model of Zambia's Pavilion. She was Zambia's first woman MP. 12ZA-1C70. Black and white photo.
GP380 A nutrition team gets a friendly welcome in a village. The teams took good care to explain exactly what they were up to. ZA5-2H70. Photographer: Edith Dahlschen. National Food and Nutrition Commission, Lusaka stamp. Black and white photo.
GP381 A little boy surrounded by kitchen pots, looks into a pot. 'Zambia's intensive food survey will supply the national nutrition programme with information vital to its success'. ZA5-1H70. Negative.
GP387 Portrait of Lombe Chibesakunda Zambia's High Commissioner to the UK. Black and white photo.
GP388 Portrait of Simon Kapwepwe, the former Vice-President of Zambia, now leader of the United Progressive Party (UPP) also Minister of Local Government and Culture. Black and white photo. For negitive, see the next page.
GP345 Kay Sifuniso Gemini correspondent for Zambia in 1960s - early 1970s. Black and white photo.
GP377 Dr. and Mrs. Kaunda. ZA1-3M71. Sepia photo.
GP331 Part of illustration of Tanzam Railway line (small). Transparency.
GP347 Part of Tanzam Railway line illustration (large). Transparency.
GP379 Group of men in front of President Kaunda's Georgian-style palace. Millionaire [A.H.] Stauge (on the left), President Kaunda and Daivd Shepherd and other game-conservation enthusiasts, on the grounds in front of Kaunda's palace in Lusaka. Zambia Information Services stamp on the back with 817[A]/11. Black and white photo.
GP375 'Commonwealth Youth Ministers Meeting, Lusaka. January 1973. Leaders of delegation with President Kaunda centre and Secretary General Arnold Smith to his right'. 32 men (ministers) posed sitting in front of a building for the meeting. Zambia Information Services stamp with 8861/1 on the back. Black and white photo.
GP330 Two photographs. One repeat of 'Chinese engineers being escorted to State House, Lusaka, for a talk with President Kaunda'. ZA2-2J70. For original print and negatives see GP440 and GP371. Second photo, portrait of Crown Prince Carl Gustaf of Sweden. SW9-1J70. Sepia photos.
GP328 Two Zambian women, one a Zambian herbalist serving medicine in a pitcher and glasses on a tray. Flowers in the background. Photographer: Tim Chigodo, correspondent in Lusaka. Black and white photo.
GP372 A picture of a man uncovering the blanket covered body of a victim of the April 1968 bombing of three villages in the Kalabor district, Western Zambia, near the Angolan frontier by the Portuguese. Zambia Information Services stamps on the back of phot with a number 1. Black and white photo.
GP342 Copy of portrait of President Kenneth Kaunda Peter Clarke (Gemini & later Guardian). Orignal portrait taken out to Kaunda and was on his wall. ZA2-17 I 70. Drawing
GP322 and GP323 Lusaka Summit, 1979. GP322 Summit Leaders, Presidents Kaunda of Zambia and Tito of Yugoslavia in Lusaka, ZA1-1H70. GP323Prime Minister Forbes Burnham of Guyana in London on his way to the Lusaka summit GU1-2I70 written on photo. Sepia photos.
GP326 'Zambian District Governor Hugh McEnery (a new type of administrator in Black Africa) chats to a widow who feeds and clothes 12 children from proceeds of vegetables grown at graddroots self-help scheme promoted by this Englishman'. Also pictured are two children and another woman along with a cattle animal. Chris Parker typed caption, lived in Zambia, Gemini correspondent in Zambia. Black and white photo.
GP327 Mr Metrication - Roger N'Gombe in information division of government, appeared on tv every morning when Zambia went metric (early 1970s). Three different graphic sheets explaining the changes to the metric system. One advertising the switch, one describing meters and one describing litres. Zambian Metrification Board. Transparencies.
GP324 and GP325 'The Rising Stars'. A performance of Zambian dance and music by young boys. On stage with their traditional dress, accordians, drums and other instruments. Zambian by musicians touring europe. All between the ages of 9 and 13. GP324 says 1ZA9-5/71. Black and white photos.
GP395 'President Kaunda of Zambia walks under a stilt dancer during his visit to Guyana earlier this year. This Christmas preview was staged to mark the president's visit'. People dressed up in the streets. Black and white photo.
GP346 Kapita Nguluwe (who once used his saving sto buy 3 bicycles for a fish transporting business), helped by a relative, Abiuti Nguluwe, checks over a stock of cycles in one of his two general stores. The two men are surrounded by cycles and clothing. Horizon RST Group Magazine #243 stamp on the back. Another stamp says 27 November 1967. Black and white photo.
[No Reference Number] Portrait of President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia, sitting in traditional dress at a desk. Negative.
GP374 'President Kaunda continually tours Zambia to urge his people to develop the land', in Mkushi district he was surrounded by people and presented with a eight-foot python's skin by Chief Mosha. 8356/9 written on the back of photo. Black and white photo.
[No Reference Number] 'In the Zambian CApital of Lusaka, support for the campaign to save a sacred initiation camp from demolition at Kitwe, came from a medicine man who, in full regalia, amrched into the Times of Zambia newspaper office to make known his strong feelings'. The medicine man in full dress inchluding a mask, by a table with fedora hats on it, with people watching behind him. Negative.
[No Reference Number] An ailing mother climbs aboard a light plane, with the words Zambia's Flying Doctor service on it, at Mushangashi, with three men waiting behind her, on the first air strip carved out of the bush for Zambia's flying doctor service. Negative.

Notebook, written mostly in longhand with some shorthand, containing notes on Antigua, Barbados and Guyana including: cricket broadcasts in Antigua; the labour exchange programme between Barbados and UK and USA, October-December 1973; and wildlife, environment, economy, health care, crime, indigenous peoples and the 1969 Rupununi uprising in Guyana. The notebook also contains brief notes on the manatee population in Florida, USA and Dugongs in Sri Lanka.

Names featured include: Forbes Burnham, Lionel Luckhoo, Pat Cameron, Dr Harry and [Philip] Duncan.

Pitman shorthand content from this notebook was transcribed by Sylvia Stirling in 2021 as part of the Clyde Sanger shorthand transcription project with funding from The National Archive’s Collaborate and Innovate Testbed Fund. The PDF transcription document also contains a digitised copy of the notebook.

Photographs selected from the Gemini Photograph Library related to Guyana.
GP268-9 Mr S S Ramphal, Foreign Minister of Guyana
GP855 Mr Mahaica, weighing gems
GP856 Prime Minister Forbes Burnham. Gemini News Service GU1-B70
GP857 Dr P.A. Reid, First Vice President & Prime Minister of the Co-operation Republic of Guyana
GP859-63 Guyana, By Derek Ingram. Minister were sent to help build the road, [though still not built or was not maintained]
GP864-68 Road Project (not by Derek Ingram)
GP869 Couple being interviewed by Derek, carried off to war from village, fought in the battle to take Jerusalem in 1917
GP870 A water-weed eating manatee
GP871 Miss Guyana
GP872-75 Jones Town suicides

Correspondence concerning subscriptions and potential subscriptions to Gemini News Service as well as usage surveys, requests for contributing writers, offers of articles, correspondence relating to a suggested Commonwealth information conference, copies of newspapers, maps, foreign trip itineries and requests for country information from High Commissions, produced by newspapers, magazines, press agencies, research centres, television stations, government departments and NGOs from the Crribean (1966-1993), including The Advocate, The Bermuda Press Ltd., The Royal Gazette Ltd., Grenada Publishers Ltd., West Indian Publishing Co. Ltd., Cayman Daily Compass, Guyana Publications Ltd., 21st Century Communications Ltd., Guyana Chronicle, Guyana National Newspapers Ltd., Guyana High Commission, Guyana Graphic, Jamaica's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Gleaner, The Star, The Natal Witness, University of the West Indies, Caribbean Contact, The Governor of the Cayman Islands, Office of the Adviser on Information and Broadcasting in the Seychelles, The Royal Gazetter & Mid-Ocean News, High Commission for Antigua & Barbuda, The Nation, ODA Corporation, Tribune Publications Limited, Jamaica Institute of Political Education, Nassau Guardian, The Grand Bahama Sun, Jamaica Resort Hotels, Caribbean News Agency, Voice of St Lucia, Nevis Daily Bulletin, The Workers Voice, The West Indian, Nevis Daily Bulletin, Trinidad Express Newspapers Ltd., Sunday Guardian, The Trinidad Guardian, Trinidad Evening News, Trinidad Publishing Co. Ltd., Barbados Advocate, Thomson Newspapers, The Bahamas Tribune,

Photographs selected from the Gemini Photograph Library related to Canada.
Expo 67, Montreal:
GP78 Australian Pavillion
GP79 Ethiopian Pavillion
GP80-88 Africa Place artworks, photos by Monica Mugan
GP89 Barbados/ Guyana Pavillion
GP90-91 Ceylon Pavillion
GP92 Cuban Pavillion
GP93 German Pavillion / Canadian Pavillion / French Pavillion / British Pavillion / US Pavillion
GP94 Moshe Safdie, designer of Expo's Habitat 67
GP95-98 Habitat 67
GP99-101 Indian Pavillion
GP102 Jamaican Pavillion
GP103 Plaza of the Americas
GP104 Mauritius Pavillion
GP105 Taiwan Pavillion
GP106-109 Man the Explorer Pavillion and Man the Producer Pavillion models
GP110 Trinidad and Tobago Pavillion
GP111 Thailand Pavillion
GP112 La Ronde model
GP113 Asbestos rock fountain model
GP114 Metro rails and vehicles
GP115 The Gyrotron model
GP116 The Expo stadium model
GP117 The village model
GP118 The Youth Pavilion model.
GP119 Mackay Pier, Habitat and Community and Health Pavillion models
GP120 International Trade Centre Pavilion
GP121 Christian Pavilion model
GP122 Pavilion model
GP123 Sculptures
GP124 Baule and Bini masks and Basonge figure
GP125 Bird mask
GP126 Jean Drapeau, Mayor of Montreal, is interviewed
GP127 Jewish community pavilion
GP128 UN pavilion model
GP129 Expo 67 photo brochure
Other photos:
GP 536 Maurice Strong: Director General of UN (1971)
GP 537 Flora McDonald, Foreign Minister of Canada circa 1969
GP 538 Joey Smallwood: District Prime Minister of Newfoundland
GP 539 Expo 70: Model of Canadian Pavillon
GP 540 Jester of city of Canada circa 1970
GP 574 Simplified keyboard for Arabic Script processor
GP 575 Dr Hyder with his Simplified keyboard for Arabic Script processor
GP 577 Dr Robert Baird McClure with the CBC crew in Ratlam Christian hospital
GP 578 Dr Robert Baird McClure
GP 579 Davidee Kagvik and Iyola discussing their carvings at the London Museum of Mankind Exhibiton
GP 580 John McKenzie, Commonwealth Arts Festival coordinator
GP 581 Eskimo women - North Western Territories
GP 656 Colour photograph of Mr Yogrsh Varhade, President of the Ambassador Centre for Justice and Peace, Toronto.

Notebook, written mostly in longhand, containing notes on BG [British Guiana, now Guyana] including: the economy; aid from the USA; politics; independence and decolonisation; education; land settlement; and the Booker Group and sugar refining. Also contains brief notes on European immigration into Canada from late 18th century.

Names mentioned include: Arthur Lewis, Forbes Burnham, Gavin Kennard, [Anthony] Tasker, [Cheddi] Jagan, [Eric] Williams, Milton Gregg, Richard Luyt, [Anthony] Greenwood, Brindley Benn and [Ralph] Grey.

Pitman shorthand content from this notebook was transcribed in 2021 as part of the Clyde Sanger shorthand transcription project with funding from The National Archive’s Collaborate and Innovate Testbed Fund. The PDF transcription document also contains a digitised copy of the notebook.

Notebook, written mostly in longhand with some shorthand, containing notes on: the civil rights movement in Alabama and Mississippi including the 1966 Alabama gubernatorial election campaign, Voting Rights Act (1965) and Meredith March Against Fear, June 1966; Guyana's independence from the United Kingdom; UN Security Council discussions on the Vietnam war, nuclear power, UK policy in Southern Rhodesia, peaceful use of outer space, Central American unity, UN forces in Cyprus and UN membership; and Canada including provinces, industry, environment, health services, tourism, religion and education.

Names mentioned include: GW [George Wallace], MLK [Martin Luther King], Carl Elliott, Lurleen Wallace, [John Malcolm] Patterson, [Richmond] Flowers, U Thant, [Lester] Pearson, Lord Russell Brain, C. Max Lane, Michael Harrington, [Simon] Kapwepwe, [Harold] Wilson, Eirene White, [Simeon] Adebo, [Hugh Foot] Baron Caradon, [Nikolai] Fedorenko, U Thant, Dr Ralph Abernathy, William Fitzpatrick, Kwame Ture (born Stokely Carmichael), [JTF] Iyalla, [Jesse] Jackson, [Dick] Gregory, [James] Meredith, SDJr [Sammy Davis Jr], Lyndon B. Johnson, Whitney Young, Andy Young and [Floyd] McKissick.

Transcribed by Lauraine Newcombe and another volunteer in 2021 as part of the Clyde Sanger shorthand transcription project with funding from The National Archive’s Collaborate and Innovate Testbed Fund. The PDF transcription document also contains a digitised copy of the notebook.