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| John Clark Collection |
Macrorie House. This fine old building in Loop Street stood in a once-fashionable area near Government House, It was the home of the well-to-do Macrories during their twenty-odd years in the capital. It is now restored as a museum of Victorian art and culture. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Alan Paton 1963 Alan Stewart Paton (11 January 1903 – 12 April 1988) was a South African writer and anti-apartheid activist. |
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| John Clark Collection |
The Supreme Court building at Pietermaritzburg being prepared as a laager for the townspeople, with timber barricades, boarded and loopholed windows, and temporary wells improvised. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Tea Farm |
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| John Clark Collection |
J. M. Deane's relatives boarded an S.A steamer at about 1903 |
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| John Clark Collection |
This fine Victorian Clock and Fountain Memorial was erected in 1898 on the occassion of the 400th anniversary of Vasco da Gama's discovery and naming of Natal. The actual date was Christmas Day, 1497. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Graaff Reinet |
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| John Clark Collection |
George Challinor 's grave. Pietermaritzburg Cemetery |
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| John Clark Collection |
James Allison (1802-75) was a Wesleyan Methodist missionary and catechist who worked among the Griquas and other groups in his early days. In 1847 he moved to Natal with 1000 converts, settling at Indaleni on land granted by the government. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Boer camp scene The photograph is believed to show Boer soldiers and their wives encamped near Majuba. Sitting on a bed inside the tent a child plays with a dog. In the foreground is a simple field-kitchen. |
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| John Clark Collection |
J. C. Byrne, emigration promoter 1849 |
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| John Clark Collection |
Zulu WAr: Sir Garnett Woseley's attempt to land at Port Durnford. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Umhlathuze Church. |
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| John Clark Collection |
John Moreland and sons |
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| John Clark Collection |
Durnford's grave |
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| John Clark Collection |
Mpanza sketch plan, showing the attack on Magistrate's (3rd) and Ambuscade (4th April) |
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| John Clark Collection |
West Street Bridge 1910. Maritzburg College in the background |
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| John Clark Collection |
A Boer cartoon of 1881- the British lion with a crown tied to its tail runs for safety to the Natal coast. (The artist had apparently never visited the seaport of Durban judging by the details of the seascape). President Brand of the Orange Free State is the figure in the foreground. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Natal Judge H.L. Phillips |
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| John Clark Collection |
Sketch of Durban in 1825- Farewells Camp |