South Africa
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John Clark Collection |
Grey's Hospital 1870 |
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John Clark Collection |
A large homestead typical of the kind contsructed by the settlers in 1849-51. Built in Shalestone by Dr. C.B.Boast, a relative by marriage of John Moreland, It still stands, now occupied by Black workers, on the farm The Avenue, near New Hanover. |
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John Clark Collection |
Rooikoppies Hotel |
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John Clark Collection |
Mason's Mill-Pietermaritzburg Close-up of the side of Mason's Mill, showing (lower aperture) where the wheel was fixed. 1970 |
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John Clark Collection |
This historical cartoon brings home in a gruesome way the scourge of cholera in London of the late 1840s. Many families from the large cities of Britian emigrated on this account. Details include the swollen bodies of dead dogs floating in the Thames. |
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John Clark Collection |
burnt wood. |
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John Clark Collection |
St. Johns Church |
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John Clark Collection |
Heeut. Gonville Bromhead. |
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John Clark Collection |
Weslyan Church, now demolished, in the York. |
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John Clark Collection |
The Natal Society building opened in February 1878. It is built on shale foundations. Generations of Pietermaritzburg citizens have passed through its doors. |
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John Clark Collection |
Durban City Hall |
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John Clark Collection |
Heavy Greenacre&C delivery van |
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John Clark Collection |
James Burnett, Lord Monboddo. A famous Scottish judge believed that originally men had tails. See the picture on the back wall. |
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John Clark Collection |
In the Cape Colony, the farmers who trekked to Natal had well-organized farmsteads. These the Voortrekkers sought to re-establish as soon as possible and with much success. This is the farmstead of Piet Kemp as John Moreland sketched it on his tour of the Natal midlands in 1853. |
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John Clark Collection |
A picture of Marthinius Jacobus Oosthuizen, hero of the defense of Rensburgkopje. At the time of the Bloukrans massacres, some families were taken unawares in this area near Eskort. |
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John Clark Collection |
Sketch drawing of a river |
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John Clark Collection |
Corner of Natal Training College 1970 |
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John Clark Collection |
Natal Breweries- Long Street Pietermaritzburg. St Mary's Church opposite |
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John Clark Collection |
Lieutenant-Governor Benjamin C.C. Pine, governor of Natal 1850-55. He played a great part in making things easier for the settlers after the bankruptcy of the promoter J.C. Byrne. |
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John Clark Collection |
Sketch- map of the actual attack by the Zulus. |