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Heeut. Gonville Bromhead.

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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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Sketch of the battlefield and its surroundings.

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Cetshwayo (1826-84), the last Zulu king. He entered the war reluctantly but his people expected him to maintain the tradition of Shaka and thus he had to fight.

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Tennis at Government house, 1884. Governor Sir Henny Bulwer.

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The early newspapers carried no illustrations but sometimes used a block engraving to indicate what a column of type was about, for example, the 'Shipping Intelligence' was marked by a small picture of a ship. Agriculture , too, carried an engraving of a cow.

Industrial and Commercial Union (ICU)
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Collefiat School. Tennis in a Girls School, 1887

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Lord Chelmsford, commander-in-chief of the British troops. He won the final battle but despite modern weapons suffered many disasters in fighting the courageous Zulus.

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Sir Bartle Frere, High Commissioner at the Cape, the man who carried most responsibility for the invasion of Zululand and subsequent hostilities. The cost of the war was R24 million but the price in human suffering incalculable.

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Start of Marathon walking race, Durban, early 1900s

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Governor Havelock

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Governor Havelock

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Mr. Ridley 

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H. E. McCullum

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Don Moodle

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Sir Henry Bale. Deputy Governor Administrator

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