South Africa
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John Clark Collection |
The small steamer Sir Robert Peel, first mail steamship to enter the harbour at Durban. She crossed the bar successfully on the 15th August 1852. |
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John Clark Collection |
The term 'murder' used in Boer War grave North of Natal |
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John Clark Collection |
Maritzburg College |
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John Clark Collection |
Barrack Room- For Napier |
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John Clark Collection |
De Natalier, the first Natal newspaper |
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John Clark Collection |
Gandhi standing outside his hut at Phoenix Settlement, during the first passive resistance struggle initiated in 1906 to protest against racial discrimination against Indians. Phoenix, together with the Tolstoy Farm in Johannesburg, (a donation from Mr. |
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John Clark Collection |
The memorial to honour the first 34 settlers of New Germany who landed in Durban on the 28th of March 1848 |
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John Clark Collection |
The memorial to honour the first 34 settlers of New Germany who landed in Durban on the 28th of March 1848 |
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John Clark Collection |
The memorial to honour the first 34 settlers of New Germany who landed in Durban on the 28th of March 1848 |
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John Clark Collection |
The memorial to honour the first 34 settlers of New Germany who landed in Durban on the 28th of March 1848 |
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John Clark Collection |
The old cemetery, New Germany |
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John Clark Collection |
Cornelis Moll (1815-80) was the twenty-fourth child of his parents. Set up as a printer in Cape Town but eventually became insolvent. In 1844 he came to Natal bringing with him his printing press. |
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John Clark Collection |
This dilapidated building with peeling plaster and narrow windows was constructed in the early 1840s as the Supreme or High Court of the district of Natal. It was dark, badly ventilated, stifling hot in summer, and deadly cold in winter. |
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John Clark Collection |
Post Office: Pietermaritzburg |
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John Clark Collection |
G. S. Preller |
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John Clark Collection |
Government House- Maritzburg |
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John Clark Collection |
No photograph of its interior exists but this contemporary sketch shows the layout of its furniture. On the right-hand side is the layout of its furniture. |
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John Clark Collection |
Henry Cloete (1792-1870) was the first Recorder of Natal and very learned in Roman-Dutch law as used in Natal. The British government regarded him highly because of his services to them in conducting a kind of census of all the original farms granted to the Voortrekkers between 1839 and 1843. |
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John Clark Collection |
Sambuca Buchanan |
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John Clark Collection |
Charlotte Evelyn Shepstone was born 29 March 1869 |