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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). |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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John Clark Collection |
Rev. Albert James Allison, a Natal missionary of the 1850s and a pioneer in native education. |
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Girl Guides of South Africa: Miss Agnes Bulley's Own |
Training 47. |
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John Clark Collection |
Lindley's house at the Inanda location. |
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Girl Guides of South Africa: Miss Agnes Bulley's Own |
Training 47. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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John Clark Collection |
Fort Mistake |
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John Clark Collection |
Fort Mistake |
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John Clark Collection |
Fort Mistake |
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John Clark Collection |
Fort Mistake
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John Clark Collection |
Another house of the thatched rondavel type was erected by Kritzinger in about 1845 in Weenen. |
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John Clark Collection |
Sketch of an early Voortrekker house occupied by President Pretorius at Groot Mieletuin, Weenen. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |