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John Clark Collection |
Boer trench at Pieters Hill |
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John Clark Collection |
Corner Longmarket Street and West Street, Pietermaritzburg |
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John Clark Collection |
Dr Stanger's original cottage, later Leut. Governor's residence |
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John Clark Collection |
Piet Retief and Curt Steynberg Sculpture |
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John Clark Collection |
Gert Maritz |
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John Clark Collection |
Restored 'Church of the Vow' |
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John Clark Collection |
Lower Church Street in 1880 showing the new market hall standing on the square, the High Court on Commercial Road, the McFie butcher shop (believed to have been the old Dutch Raadsaal and later the Supreme Court from 1845 onwards) on the corner of Commercial Road. |
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John Clark Collection |
Voorktrekker Museum, Pietermaritzburg |
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John Clark Collection |
Combination of the parking meter and house hitching rail- Pietermaritzburg |
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John Clark Collection |
Overpark –Loop Street, Pietermaritzburg |
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John Clark Collection |
Witness Lane. Pietermaritzburg |
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John Clark Collection |
Prince of Wales Hotel. Pietermaritzburg |
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John Clark Collection |
Church Street in 1880, with at least three hitching rails in view on an earthen surface. Although most of the buildings here are gone, the general appearance of the street is easily recognizable by a modern citizen. The best building is the double-storied block of Edward Stantial the chemist. |
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John Clark Collection |
The Prince of Wales Hotel, proprietor G. Salomon, as it looked in the period 1875-80. Originally built about 1840 as a 4-roomed cottage, it was owned by J.N. Boshof, a civil servant in the new colonial government, who later became president of the Orange Free State. |
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John Clark Collection |
An 1864 view of two important buildings long since gone. The one on the left is the Colonial Bank of Ntal complete with customers' hitching rail and the other is the original Plough Hotel. |
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John Clark Collection |
A satirical cartoon entitled Compensation from Dushani by G. Summer ridicules the meager compensation - a few goats - obtained by military action against an ill-behaved tribal chief. |
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John Clark Collection |
Another view of the Government School Room on the occasion of the opening of the 1858 session of the legislative council by Lieutenant-governor R.W. Keate (1867-72). |
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John Clark Collection |
An early street lamp suspended above the door of Caltert's Printing Works in Printing Office Street. In its day it supplied illumination by paraffin, gas, and electricity. It dates back to 1878-80 when the original building was probably erected. |
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John Clark Collection |
An interesting picture of the 1890s showing the facade of the Standard Bank and its two guardian oak trees, David and Jonathan. Note the four-wheeler cabs with their sun-canopies. |
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John Clark Collection |
The old muzzle-loader at the base of the Zulu War memorial. |