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Camps de Pilgrim’s Rest (Mines d’Or), 1874 - 1875

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3055B/14

Scope and Contents

190 x 141 mm. A view from the east looking down on the small settlement of tents and wooden houses at Pilgrim’s Rest, with two Africans standing on the hillside in the foreground. The size of the camp seen here would support a date around 1874-75 for the taking of this photograph and this accords with the engraving of the settlement published in the ‘Illustrated London News’ of July 3 1873. It is certainly considerably smaller than the town as Rowland J. Atcherley describes it in 1877 in ‘A trip to Borland’, (London, 1879). Probably by H. Ferdinand Gros.

Dates

  • Creation: 1874 - 1875

Conditions Governing Access

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Language of Materials

English

Date information

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Finding aid date

2012-04-17 14:31:20+00:00

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Repository Details

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