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John Clark Collection

Facsimile of a portion of his journal found on the beach by men from the rescue ship which arrived six weeks later. (From Jesse Page's life of Gardiner).

John Clark Collection

James Green (1821-1906) He was the Anglican dean of Pietermaritzburg. Invited to South Africa by Bishop Robert Gray, he arrived at Port Natal in February 1849 as a colonial chaplain.

John Clark Collection

Sir Michael H. Gallwey (1826-1912) First attorney-general and later chief justice of Natal, emigrated to the colony from Ireland in December 1853. Only 27 years old, he was to create for himself a brilliant career ending in a knighthood.

Girl Guides of South Africa: Miss Agnes Bulley's Own

1st Escourtpack. International doll display. Lorna and Merryl of the 1st Estcourt Brownie pack with the pack's international doll display.

John Clark Collection

Rev. Albert James Allison, a Natal missionary of the 1850s and a pioneer in native education.

Girl Guides of South Africa: Miss Agnes Bulley's Own

Training 47.

John Clark Collection

Lindley's house at the Inanda location.

Girl Guides of South Africa: Miss Agnes Bulley's Own

Training 47.

Girl Guides of South Africa: Miss Agnes Bulley's Own

Presentation of Long service award to Miss Bulley at R.D.L.I Hall on 28th July 1946. After the presentation.

Girl Guides of South Africa: Miss Agnes Bulley's Own

Presentation of long service award to Miss Bulley, at R.D.L.I Hall on 28th July 1946: Provincial Com- Mrs Strachan making presentation.

John Clark Collection

There are in existence very few authentic views of the interiors of trekker houses. This is a reconstruction of a more affluent one made for the Paris Exhibition in 1900. Note the absence of doors and the hunting trophies on the walls. The appointments are very simple.  

John Clark Collection

Fort Mistake

John Clark Collection

Fort Mistake

John Clark Collection

Fort Mistake

John Clark Collection

Fort Mistake

 

John Clark Collection

Another house of the thatched rondavel type was erected by Kritzinger in about 1845 in Weenen.

John Clark Collection

Sketch of an early Voortrekker house occupied by President Pretorius at Groot Mieletuin, Weenen.

John Clark Collection

The statue of Piet Retief by sculptor Coert Steynberg. This imaginative and full-length figure stands in the forecourt of the old Voortrekker Museum, Pietermaritzburg.

John Clark Collection

Rev. D. Lindley (1801-80) was An American missionary who arrived in South Africa in 1835 and after mission work elsewhere came to Natal in May 1837. By the year 1840, he was a minister to the Voortrekkers and had settled in Pietermaritzburg in the Pastorie there.

John Clark Collection

Weenen in 1853, a pencil sketch from the field notebook of John Moreland, Byrne settler agent. It is probably the first drawing of this Vootrekker township

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