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John Clark Collection

Sketch of lust settle,emt at Durban attributed to Captain Smitth

John Clark Collection

A sketch by Captain R.F Garden, 45th regt, entitled 'From Sea View, October 8, 1849'. It shows the point with one vessel at anchor, the Bluff, Salisbury Island with mangrove trees, and part of the flat plain on which Durban was sited. Coastal bush is everywhere in evidence.

John Clark Collection

A sketch of Captain Smith's camp under siege. The tents have been riddled by shot and the ground is strewn with debris. In the foreground groups of men are sheltering along with the sick and wounded of whom there were twenty-six.

John Clark Collection

Dr Stanger's cottage on the of between Longmarket and Church streets, Pietermaritzburg. In the left background is Fort Napier with the Union Jack on the Flagstaff. A watercolour.

John Clark Collection

A troop of 17 volunteers made up of young foremen, a photograph taked after they landed in prison.

John Clark Collection

View of the Umsindusi bridge, Swaartkop, and Pietermaritzburg a century ago. The small town in 1854 consisted on only fifteen streets.

John Clark Collection

Front page of the Natal Mercury, 24th February 1853 when the weekly was three months old.

John Clark Collection

Entrance to PMB from Galenso's Ten week in Natal

John Clark Collection

This Pietermaritzburg view, drawn in 1855 as an illustration for Bishop Golenso's book Ten weeks in Natal, shows the town as a long range of buildings of a compact nature, which Swartkop mountain in the background.

John Clark Collection

Bushman's river passing Drakensberg.

John Clark Collection

An amazing cartoon by the Natal artist G. Summer who flurished in the 1860s. His work was so popular that many of his sketches were photographed and sold as cartes de visite for use in Victorian albums.

John Clark Collection

Perhaps the earliest picture of Church Street, with Visagies mill and a few pedestrians, one of them a soldier from the Fort Napier garrison. The sketch was made in 1846 by Colonel Coxon. A water furrow fro the mill-wheel ran down the right-hand side of the street.

John Clark Collection

The front page of the finatique with its motto: 'The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth'. It was established in 1846.

John Clark Collection

This large twin-grabled two-storied house which stood at Pietermaritz street was the temporary official residence or Lieutenant-Govenor R.W Keate. On his arrival in 1867 he refused to live in Pin's Government House because of its 'state' house to rent.

John Clark Collection

Africana Museum Anderson, A.A.

John Clark Collection

Newcastle

John Clark Collection

A unit of the Lancers halting at Curry's Post, about 38 km north-west of Pietermaritzburg.

John Clark Collection

UnIdentified sketch

John Clark Collection

Amahlongwe, Natal

John Clark Collection

The premises of the Natal Witness in its early days at 244 Longmarket Street.

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