South Africa
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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 |
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| John Clark Collection |
St Vincent Whitshed Erskine (1846 - 1918), Surveyor General of South Africa |
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| John Clark Collection |
Killie Campbell |
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| John Clark Collection |
Professor Alan Frederick Hattersley (1893-1976) was born in Leeds, England, in 1893. He studied History at Cambridge and on completing his degree was invited to come out to South Africa and lecture in history at the new Natal University College (NUC) in 1916. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Chas Barter |
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| John Clark Collection | ||
| John Clark Collection |
Lieutenant F.G. Farewell (1793-1829), one of the two exnaval officers who pioneered the opening-up of Natal as a trading-station. No pictyre exists of his partner in the trading venture, James Saunders King, who later died of dysentery in Durban and is buried on the Bluff. |
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| John Clark Collection |
From Gardiner's "Journey to the Zoolu Country" |
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| John Clark Collection |
Scene at the VictorianDocks, of men bringing thier kit aboard the ship, the S.S. Pretoria |
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| John Clark Collection |
Victoria Dock. Horse's stalls on deck. |