Campbell Collections
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| John Clark Collection |
House when execution Goal was herad, PMB |
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| John Clark Collection |
Blood River. Sketch by H. Egersdorfer of the breakout from the laager of the mounted Boers. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Another equestrian group of local notabilities. It is described as a 'Scene near the Umgeni. 16-3-1849. Longfellow fecit'.The people are numbered and named. The coach ascending the hill is that of Henry Cloete, recorder of Natal. |
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| John Clark Collection |
C.J. Cato |
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| John Clark Collection |
Soldiers |
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| John Clark Collection |
Andries Pretorius (1798-1853) An artist's impression of this military hero of the Voortrekkers. Pretorius's spiritual home was always NAtal, although he left for the Transvaal, later becoming its first president. |
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| John Clark Collection |
The Bluff signal station for ships some years after the arrival of the emigrants. No lighthouse was available until 1865 when Peter Paterson, the colonial engineer, erected the first one on the site. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Archaeological excavations in South Africa are yielding a great deal of evidence concerning the lives and habits of the ancestors of the Bushmen. Stone tools, man's basic implements in Africa for two or three million years, had been greatly refined by Later Stone Age times. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Lukas J. Meyer (1846-1902) |
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| John Clark Collection |
Government House. Pietermaritzburg |
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| John Clark Collection |
John Vanderplank house, Camperdown |
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| John Clark Collection |
The schooner William Shaw built at Cato's Creek for George C. Cato, in 1856. It was named after an Eastern Province missionary who was an old friend. Cato used it for coastwise trading. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Erasmus Smit (1778-1863) Missionary and Voortrekker minister. His diary contains accounts of the Trek, the massacre of Retief's party, and the battle of Blood River and is of great historical value. He was the only recognized cleric on the initial trip from the Cape Colony. |
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| John Clark Collection |
The photograph is what remains of General Pretorius's homestead. The building is now being used as a classroom at the Edendale Bantu Community School. October 1959 |
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| John Clark Collection |
The premises of the Natal Witness in its early days at 244 Longmarket Street. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Cato sketch of the early wreck on Durban bar of the French ship Le Paquet, 1847 |
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| John Clark Collection |
C. J. Johnston MPC Natal c. 1850 |
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| John Clark Collection |
St Saviours' Cathedral- Pietermaritzburg |
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| John Clark Collection |
Natal Government House |
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| John Clark Collection |
A.T. Spies (1800-89) Famous Voortrkker commandant and Natal leader. During the Great Trek, he showed leadership qualities in the battles against Dingane. When Weenen was surveyed in 1840 he became its first commandant. |