South Africa
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| John Clark Collection |
Lord Chelmsford with his staff. The staff officer on the right is Lieut. Colonel J.N. Crealock |
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| John Clark Collection |
Masonic Hall (first one) Pietermaritzburg |
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| John Clark Collection |
A rare photograph was taken at Government House, Pietermaritzburg, home of Sir George Colley, showing his widow Lady Edith, an attractive woman 15 years his junior, about to travel to Majuba to visit her husband's grave. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Royal Marines froding a Zululand river. Note their uniforms and weapons- lanyards,shady hats, cutlasses, and short carbines. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Iron and Steel factory |
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| John Clark Collection |
Final ship to bring insian to Natal in 1860. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Zulu War 1879: The first Zulu kraal spared |
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| John Clark Collection |
The meeting place of the Volksraad of the Republic Natalia, here shown, stood at the corner of Church Street and Commercial Road in Pietermaritzburg, where the City Hall now stands. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Ifafa beach cottage, 1891 |
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| John Clark Collection |
Fort Napiers earliest strucrure, one of two redoubts built about 1845-4 by Royal Engineers attached to the 4th Regt. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Battle of Isandlwana: Nevill Josiah Aylmer Coghill VC was a British Army officer and recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Langalibalele |
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| John Clark Collection |
Jan Schheper's farm, Biggarsberg, A voortrekker farm seen in 1853 ans sketched by John Moreland, Byrne Settler agent |
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| John Clark Collection |
A Victorian book illustration of some 30 Boer wagons in laager beside a river. Tents have been erected both inside and outside the laager. Black servants are drawing water and the oxen are grazing or drinking. the surrounding area is completely treeless. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Kelso Grove, Umzinto residence |
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| John Clark Collection |
Theophilus Shepstone (1811-93). His first visit toNatal was not a very suspicious one. Not only had he to leave his young bride but when at Port Natal he was physically unwell and 'overcome by melancholy'. In addition he had a narrow escape from being the tale. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Battle of Isandlane: Liet.Teignmouth Melvill VC was an officer in the British Army and recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces |
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| John Clark Collection |
Port & City Hotel, Longmarket Street, Peitermaritzburg |
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| John Clark Collection |
Sir Henry Bale. Deputy Governor Administrator |
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| John Clark Collection |
With the outbreak of the war, a strong vein of Victorian sentiment rose to the surface in the popular press. This picture is entitled 'The last embrace' |