Africa (continent)
Found in 20095 Collections and/or Records:
The Club, Durban, 1916-05
137 x 86 mm. Monochrome post card (original print) dated in Bell's hand 'May 1916'.
The Club, Graaff Reinet, 1880 - 1889
321 x 185 mm. A view from the street showing the single storey flat roofed building, with two groups of men watching the photographer from the stoep, roofed in decorative ironwork. With Spandau Kop in the background. The Graaff Reinet club was established in 1876; the building seen here in Church Square which still serves as the clubs's premises, was built in 1881.
The Club, Lourenço Marques, 1899 - 1908
204 x 155 mm. View of the substantial verandahed premises on Avenida Aguiar which opened in 1899. Within a few years it became a private hotel. Signed ‘J. Lazarus Photo’.
The C.M.S. Mission House at Ibwijili (Bugiri) after it was remodelled and given a corrugated iron roof, circa 1910, 1910
162 x 118 mm. General view of the new mission house built by T.B.R. Westgate. It was used by the Germans as an internment camp in the First World War and burnt down in 1915.
The C.M.S. Mission House at Ibwijili (Bugiri) after it was remodelled and given a corrugated iron roof, circa 1910, 1910
162 x 118 mm. General view of the new mission house built by T.B.R. Westgate. It was used by the Germans as an internment camp in the First World War and burnt down in 1915.
The C.M.S. Mission House at Ibwijili (Bugiri) after it was remodelled and given a corrugated iron roof, circa 1910, 1910
162 x 118 mm. General view of the new mission house built by T.B.R. Westgate. It was used by the Germans as an internment camp in the First World War and burnt down in 1915.
The Cobbo plain near Allomata [i.e. Alamat’a], 1943
130 x 120 mm. General view.
The coco-de-mer palm in the grounds of Government House, 1880 - 1889
116 x 163 mm. View showing Sultan Abdullah of Perak standing beneath the coc-de-mer tree in Government House, Port Victoria. Abdullah was Sultan of Perak from 1872 to 1875 when he was deposed by the British for his complicity in the murder of the British Resident James Birch. He spent the years 1875-95 in exile in the Seychelles before being permitted to return to Perak. A note on the reverse of the mount gives details of the life cycle of the coco-de-mer palm.
The Cole family at Mpwapwa, 1902
165 x 110 mm. Shows the Rev. and Mrs Cole, their two children and Westgate.
The College Library, 1945
The College Printing Press, 1945
Showing a student selecting type in the college printing offices. The typewritten caption on the reverse continues 'which takes on outside orders, as well as fulfilling College requirements. It is particularly well equipped for printing in Vernacular languages'.
The Colonel and the widow, 1902
The Colonel, etc. interviewing Matabele spies, 1890
Showing Dr Jameson and Canon Balfour seated in camp chairs with four Matabele warriors sitting on the ground in front of them. In the background are wagons loaded with equipment. A photograph probably taken on July 20th.
The Colonel rests, 1902
The Colonel’s tent, Lundi River, 1890
Showing Pennefather’s tent in the foreground (with washing draped over the guys) and the laagered wagons of the pioneer column beyond. Photograph taken about August 2nd.
The colonnade, Island of Philae, 1857
226 x 155mm. A view looking south along the colonnade on the western side of the island which leads to the Great Temple, with the Nile beyond and the granite formations on the Island of Biggeh in the background.
The Colours of the 94th Regt and 2.21st Royal Scots Fusiliers-trooped in the Garrison Square, Pretoria after ‘Bronkhorst Spruit’, 1880 - 1881
190 x 141 mm. Showing the colours of the 94th Regiment and 2nd Battalion of the 21st Royal Scots Fusiliers placed in front of a tent in the camp at Pretoria. The colours were saved after the disastrous opening hostilities of the war in the engagement at Bronkhorst Spruit (December 20 1880).
The Commanding Officers of the Cape Town Volunteers, 1960 - 1980
114 x 140 mm. Group portrait of Colonel Eustace, Captain Porter, Colonel Dupray and Colonel Tucker. Various handwritten annotations, in both ink and pencil, can be found on the reverse of the print. Photograph by Arthur Green.
The Commissioner's Camel Escort, 1908
Half-plate (landscape format). Capt. H.E.G. Cordeaux, the Comissioner, inspecting.
The Commissioner's Camel Escort, 1908
Half-plate (landscape format). Capt. H.E.G. Cordeaux, the Commissioner, inspecting.
The common bushbuck (Natal), 1920 - 1929
Collection of monochrome postcards printed in collotype showing stuffed animals in the Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg. Accompanying the postcards is a four page printed leaflet by the Director of the Natal Museum, Ernest Warren, dated April 1924 and entitled 'The need for the International protection of the African fauna.' All photographs by C Akerman except no. 73, which is by 'F. Teschner'.
The common waterbuck (Zululand), 1920 - 1929
Collection of monochrome postcards printed in collotype showing stuffed animals in the Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg. Accompanying the postcards is a four page printed leaflet by the Director of the Natal Museum, Ernest Warren, dated April 1924 and entitled 'The need for the International protection of the African fauna.'
The compensation showery, 1934-10
40 x 65 mm.
'The Congo L-of-C route to the Victoria Falls', Aug. - Sept. 1943
The cover of the album continues ... 'Photographs and text by R.D. Simon.' Depicting road, lake steamer and rail from Gilgil, Kenya, via lakes Victoria and Tanganyika, and the Belgian Congo, to Ndola, Lusaka and Victoria Falls.
The construction of the Dam - Gebel Aulia, 1930 - 1937
115 x 120 mm. Showing machinery, cranes and many men constructing the dam.