South Africa
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| John Clark Collection |
Army headquarters of General Sir George White. The house received a direct hit from a 100 1b shell, forcing the general and his staff to find other accommodations on Francis Road. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Armstrongs Garden |
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| G. H. Rennie |
G. H. Rennie "S. S. Inkosi" |
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| John Clark Collection |
This kind of Hindu temple, beautiful though small, may be seen on the outskirts of Natal town in the Coastal area. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Casualties at the battle of Colenso were so heavy that trainloads of wounded men were transported to Pietermaritzburg where they were placed in makeshift hospitals-the Native High Court, The legislative Assembly building, Maritzburg College, and St George's Garrison Church |
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| John Clark Collection |
Sketch by John Mondand |
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| John Clark Collection |
Sketch of lust settle,emt at Durban attributed to Captain Smitth |
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| John Clark Collection |
A sketch by Captain R.F Garden, 45th regt, entitled 'From Sea View, October 8, 1849'. It shows the point with one vessel at anchor, the Bluff, Salisbury Island with mangrove trees, and part of the flat plain on which Durban was sited. Coastal bush is everywhere in evidence. |
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| John Clark Collection |
A sketch of Captain Smith's camp under siege. The tents have been riddled by shot and the ground is strewn with debris. In the foreground groups of men are sheltering along with the sick and wounded of whom there were twenty-six. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Dr Stanger's cottage on the of between Longmarket and Church streets, Pietermaritzburg. In the left background is Fort Napier with the Union Jack on the Flagstaff. A watercolour. |
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| John Clark Collection |
A troop of 17 volunteers made up of young foremen, a photograph taked after they landed in prison. |
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| John Clark Collection |
View of the Umsindusi bridge, Swaartkop, and Pietermaritzburg a century ago. The small town in 1854 consisted on only fifteen streets. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Front page of the Natal Mercury, 24th February 1853 when the weekly was three months old. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Entrance to PMB from Galenso's Ten week in Natal |
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| John Clark Collection |
This Pietermaritzburg view, drawn in 1855 as an illustration for Bishop Golenso's book Ten weeks in Natal, shows the town as a long range of buildings of a compact nature, which Swartkop mountain in the background. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Bushman's river passing Drakensberg. |
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| John Clark Collection |
An amazing cartoon by the Natal artist G. Summer who flurished in the 1860s. His work was so popular that many of his sketches were photographed and sold as cartes de visite for use in Victorian albums. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Perhaps the earliest picture of Church Street, with Visagies mill and a few pedestrians, one of them a soldier from the Fort Napier garrison. The sketch was made in 1846 by Colonel Coxon. A water furrow fro the mill-wheel ran down the right-hand side of the street. |
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| John Clark Collection |
The front page of the finatique with its motto: 'The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth'. It was established in 1846. |
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| John Clark Collection |
This large twin-grabled two-storied house which stood at Pietermaritz street was the temporary official residence or Lieutenant-Govenor R.W Keate. On his arrival in 1867 he refused to live in Pin's Government House because of its 'state' house to rent. |