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| John Clark Collection |
Cartoon by G.S Summer , a Natal artist, making fun of the newly amied settlers at Durban. The small boy and the women are scarted to death at their final meeting with a Zulu dock worker. The father is prepared to defend himself with an umbrella. The sketch was made in the 1860s. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Today many relics of the Natal campaign exist in the Midlands, particularly around Ladysmith. Pictures show one of two famous mortars which helped to defend the beleaguered town and which the British command later donated to the town. Note the size of the shell. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Perhaps the main cause of emigration in the period of 1849-52 was economic distress that prevailed throughout Britian. Bad Harvests, High rents, unemployment bank failures, the collapse of the railway boom in 1847, etc., Threw artisans and farmworkers alike out of their jobs. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Voortrekker brake shoes or remskoene placed under the wagon wheel to slow it down on steep hills or rocky slopes. |
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| John Clark Collection |
James Saunders King (1795-1828) Born in Halifax, New Brunswick, in 1795, he joined the Royal Navy as a ship's boy in 1806 and left it as a 20-year-old midshipman in 1815. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Byrne - view of misty hills alongside the Church. December 1975 |
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| John Clark Collection |
Silhouette sketch by Daphne Strutt of the ships of Vasco da Gama Portuguese seafarer, who anchored in a bay sheltered by a larger headland, presumed to be the Durban Bluff. The date was 28 December 1497. |
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| John Clark Collection |
This old blind voortrekker J.H. Labuschagne fought at Blood River Picture shows him with his apprehensive wife having their first photograph taken, probably in the 1870s. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Napoleon Eugene Louis Joseph, Prince Imperial, was killed in Zululand only six weeks after he had celebrated his 23rd birthday. |
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| John Clark Collection |
A group photograph of the Uys father and sons. They were the most famous fighters against the Zulus from Blood River onwards to the Zulu War of 1879. Their history is marked by a number of heroic deeds and stark family tragedies. |
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| John Clark Collection |
The Militia reserves on parade. Cartoon - before boer war |
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| John Clark Collection |
Newcastle |
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| John Clark Collection |
The unfortunate Lieut. (later Captain) J. B. Carey, aged 32, nine years older than the Prince. |
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| John Clark Collection |
The Town Guard cartoon |
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| John Clark Collection |
Aubrey Samuel Langley (1871-1939) This unforgettable personality was the headmaster of one of the two great schools of Natal, in this case, Durban High or D.H.S. as it is universally known. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Byrne: house Dimba on site of Cunningham's original house. December 1975 |
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| John Clark Collection |
The British people celebrated the relief of Ladysmith and the press published patriotic but occassionally sarcastic cartoons. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Africana Museum Anderson, A.A. |
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| John Clark Collection |
The Empress Eugine when disembarking in South Africa for her visit to the spot where her son died. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Pears soap |