Charles F. Kimble & Sons, Ltd.
Charles F. Kimble & Sons, Ltd.
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Charles F Kimble & Sons, Ltd was a London based publishing firm. Although there are little details about this publisher, the earliest date attributed to their existence is the The Heart of a Nation (1945) with illustrations based on photographs by J. Phillip Kimble.
Charles F Kimble is also noted as a commercial photographer that was active in Southern Africa during the 1950’s trading as Charles F Kimble & Sons (South Africa) Ltd.
Postcards
The business produced a range of postcards of Southern African subjects, often using the photographs of local photographers. The letter-prefaced series related to the Rhodesias and other parts of Africa. Only the Rhodesias are listed.
Kimble Productions
Charles F Kimble/Tokim
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- Greetings & Best Wishes II – Redfern
- Type I
- Type II – VF Series
- Letter Series:
- B – Bulawayo (B&W)
- B – Bulawayo (Colour)
- BH – Broken Hill
- G – Gwelo
- K – Kitwe
- L – Lusaka
- LY – Luanshya
- N – Ndola
- NR – Northern Rhodesia
- NR – Greetings and Best Wishes III
- RN – Rhodesian Natives
- S – Salisbury (B&W)
- S – Salisbury (Colour)
- SR – Southern Rhodesia
- U Series – Umtali
- VF – Victoria Falls
- VF – Victoria Falls (Colour)
- VF – Greetings and Best Wishes I
- VF – Greetings and Best Wishes II
- VF – Greetings and Best Wishes III
- VF B Series – Victoria Falls
- WA – Wildlife Africa
- Z – Zimbabwe
- Z – Greetings and Best Wishes IV
Other Cards
- Clark’s Curio Store – Type I
- Clark’s Curio Store – Type IA
- Clark’s Curio Store – Type II
- E T Brown – Type I – Umtali
- M. Shapiro
Reference
Contributors
- Richard Barnett
- Geoff Brakspear
- Terry Cowlard
- John Irving
- Keith Harrop
- Stuart Lawson
- James Gavin
- Andrew Wilkie