191 x 142 mm. Showing editorial staff and soldiers gathered in front of the tents and wagons used as offices by the newspaper. Figures identified beneath the print are: Capt. J.Mc.W. Clarke; Mr. Strecker (foreman printed); Mr. Lys (see also Y3055A/19); C.W. Decker (-1912), joint editor of ‘News of the Camp’ and the founder of the earlier ‘Transvaal Argus’; Charles Du Val; a private of the 94th Regiment; the compositors; Mr. Mitchelson; and Mr Goodwill.

This print is pasted on to the newspaper’s title page with the caption beneath in letterpress. The photograph is used as the basis for an illustration in Du Val's ‘With a show through Southern Africa’ (Vol. II, p 27) and in ‘The Graphic’ (May 28 1881).