South Africa
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| John Clark Collection |
Fort Mistake
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| John Clark Collection |
Another house of the thatched rondavel type was erected by Kritzinger in about 1845 in Weenen. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Sketch of an early Voortrekker house occupied by President Pretorius at Groot Mieletuin, Weenen. |
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| John Clark Collection |
The statue of Piet Retief by sculptor Coert Steynberg. This imaginative and full-length figure stands in the forecourt of the old Voortrekker Museum, Pietermaritzburg. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Rev. D. Lindley (1801-80) was An American missionary who arrived in South Africa in 1835 and after mission work elsewhere came to Natal in May 1837. By the year 1840, he was a minister to the Voortrekkers and had settled in Pietermaritzburg in the Pastorie there. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Weenen in 1853, a pencil sketch from the field notebook of John Moreland, Byrne settler agent. It is probably the first drawing of this Vootrekker township |
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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' |
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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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Indian railway labour in Natal 1876-1895 | |
| John Clark Collection |
Aldin Grout (1803-94) was An American missionary who came to Natal in December 1835 and was one of the few to visit Dingane. His Zululand mission on the whole was successful. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Colenso's home at Bishopstowe, with the Bishop on the verandah. By a bitter coincidence, the building with its contents was totally destroyed by a runaway bushfire shortly after the death of Colenso. In fact, only 15 months elapsed. |
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Indian Employment | |
| John Clark Collection |
Voortrekker Sunhat |
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| John Clark Collection |
An old photograph of St Peter's Cathedral. Its founder Bishop Colenso lies buried beneath its altar. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Rev. William Campbell (1802-73) First minister and founder of the Presbyterian Church, Pietermaritzburg. The building still stands on Church Street but is no longer a church. |
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First Indian Trade Union Congress | |
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The trekkers in Natal spent much of their time with rifles in hand, both for self-protection and for the shooting of game for food. To load their guns at the muzzle they used a metal flask, which released the required quantity of gunpowder. |
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| John Clark Collection |
St Paul's Anglican Church, Durban, where the Byrne settlers and other arrivals worshipped under the Rev. W.H..C. Llyod. |
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| John Clark Collection |
The Ebenezer Chapel, Pietermaritzburg, an old photograph showing how dilapidated it became before restoration. |
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Dismissal of Pravin Gordhan |