Campbell Collections
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| Girl Guides of South Africa: International conference head at Foxlease 1930 |
Highcliff castle. |
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| Amos Family Photograph |
Amos family photograph of two mountains. |
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| Steam Train |
Steam train turning on the mountain. |
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| Amos Family Photograph |
Amos family photograph. |
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| Amos Family Photograph |
Amos family photograph. |
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| John Clark Collection |
A painting by James B. West, an early Natal artist, shows Durban as it was in 1852. The view is taken from the approach on the road to Pietermaritzburg. The whole area is embowered in the, as yet, unspoiled bush |
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| John Clark Collection |
A famous picture by Thomas Baines shows the schooner Conch running gently before the wind as she enters the Bluff channel at Port Natal. With all sails set she tows behind her five or six boats crammed with soldiers of the 27th Regiment. The occasion is of course the relief of Captain T.C. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Durban, embowered in natural bush, as seen by the artist James B. West in 1851. Note how thickly covered the Point and the Bluff. The road in the foreground is the beginning of the Berea. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Early sketch of Zulu Village : Zulu Kraal near Umlazi, Natal', 1849. Plate 27 from The Kafirs Illustrated, 1849. Artist George French Angas. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Another view of Dr. Stanger's thatched cottage, perhaps showing upper Church Street 120 years ago. An equestrian group with the ladies riding side-saddle. A pencil sketch. |
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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 |
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 |
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 |
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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| Untitled |
Scene of modern house next to a rondavel, a cow's kraal and a man doing a garden, with others drinking beer next to a chicken coop. |
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| John Clark Collection |
A sketch of West Street, Durban, in 1850 appeared in the Illustrated London News. It is a reasonably accurate representation of the main street with its one-storied houses and shops. The unpaved street shows deep wheel marks in the loose sand. |
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| Untitled |
Monochrome scene of the three wise men, looking at the shining star with three sheep behind them . |
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| " The official is in the post Office" |
Monochrome scene of a riot in front of a post office with the crowd turning a car upside down. ( Plate mask) |
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| John Clark Collection |
This picture by T.W. Bowler, printed in 1865, shows Durban's first tug Pioneer, a small steamer of 40 horsepower, coming out from the harbor to collect mail from a ship lying in the roadstead. (by permission of W.H. Ward, Vereeniging) |
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| "Rain Queen" |
Monochrome abstract, figures of old man, child and an old woman. ( Type: Linocut) |