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| John Clark Collection |
An 1875 photograph of West Street looking west from Field Street. Spans of oxen on their way to the harbour pull wool wagons through the water-logged sand. On the corner is a general dealer's shop selling Kaffir pots, metal canisters, and vegetables. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Alexandra Road barracks of the Old Natal Mounted Police |
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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 |
A quick sketch of John Dunn drawn in the field by a war artist. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Victorian bustle chair and Bible used by Lindley |
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| John Clark Collection |
A famous team known as the Wasfs Soccer |
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| John Clark Collection |
Original Durban chemist known as W. Stranack despensing chemist. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Memorial gravestone to Martin West. Commercial Road Cemetery, Pietermaritzburg. West, the first governor of Natal, died in 1849 |
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| John Clark Collection |
Lindley's house at the Inanda location. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Sir Henry Rider Haggard as a young man |
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| John Clark Collection |
Another view of West Street with loaded ox-wagons. Note the shop fronts on the opposite side. The facades helped to create an illusion of large solid buildings. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Church Street, Pietermaritzburg showing Natal Bank and the present site of Standard Bank |
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| John Clark Collection |
Voortrekker Sunhat |
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| John Clark Collection |
Henry Francis Fynn (1803-61). One of the greatest of the early Natal settlers and one of the few Europeans who could speak from personal acquaintance with the great Shaka. |
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| John Clark Collection |
The present Durban post office opposite Farewell's original camp site in 1824. Behind it can be seen the roof towers of the railway station. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Natal in Shaka's time by Lloyd |
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| John Clark Collection |
The centre of Durban about 1879, showing St Paul's Church and the public library. Note behind the church the Natal Government Railway sheds and some rolling stock. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Meerlust- Cape Town |
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| John Clark Collection |
The opening of the Legislative Council by Lieutenant Governor Keate in 1868. This building was originally the Government School Room, and in it was held the Church of England Services prior to the erection of St Peter's Cathedral which was opened about 1868 |
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| John Clark Collection |
Jean-Baptiste Sabon (1819-85) was Durban's first parish priest who arrived in 1852. His ministry embraced care for Indian and Mauritian workers as well as Europeans and he also set up a small school. He was responsible for the building of a fine church in Durban, completed in 1881. |