Botswana (nation)
Found in 209 Collections and/or Records:
Tsessebe Dam, Tati Concessions, 1910 - 1911
128 x 102 mm. A view from downriver looking back towards the dam and reservoir. The Tati Concessions, centred around Francistown, were originally part of Matabeleland. Gold was discovered in the area in the mid 1860s and a mineral concession, which passed through many hands, was obtained from Lobengula in 1869 and lasted up to independence.
Tsessebe Dam, Tati Concessions, 1910 - 1911
128 x 102. Showing two men (one holding a fishing rod) and a dog on the bank of the Tsessebe Dam reservoir.
[Unidentified aerial view], 1965
Contains Kodachromes originally arranged in two sequences, which have been listed by processing number: 1-37 (numbers 11, 19 and 31 mare missing).
Washaway near Taungs, 1910 - 1911
99 x 122 mm. Showing a derailed locomotive and carriages, with subsided track in the foreground. Taungs lies on the Hartz River 80 miles north of Kimberley.
Washaway near Taungs, 1910 - 1911
98 x 122 mm. Showing a section of collapsed track hanging over the side of an embankment, with groups of labourers at work repairing the line.
Wild ostrich shot near German border. One of my Hottentots [Khoekhoe], 1904 - 1905
65 x 41 mm. Showing a servant, dressed in European clothes and holding a rifle, holding up the head and neck of the dead ostrich. Reproduced in Hodson facing p. 118 where the location is identified as Polanchow; the journey during which this hunting expedition took place is described in Chapter VII.
Women going to the pits for water, Serowe 1907, 1907
85 x 85 mm. Negative only.
Women grinding berries for food, 1904 - 1905
65 x 41 mm. Showing a group of Bakalahadi women grinding a pile of berries laid in an animal skin with a large wooden pestle. Reproduced in Hodson facing p 90, where the location is identified as Ngoatie.
Young Gemsbok, 1904 - 1905
65 x 41 mm. Showing a captured Gemsbok on a tether.