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203 x 151 mm. A view looking over a hilly landscape , with a track leading from a building on the summit of a steep hill down into the valley.

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207 x 152 mm. Showing miners standing beside wooden sluicing equipment on a riverbank near Barberton.

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205 x 152 mm. A view looking along the wide unsurfaced street with the premises of Chester and Co. in the left foreground and an unidentified building with a small onion-shaped dome futher down.

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175 x 125 mm. Showing a section of the mining town of Pilgrim's Rest.

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113 x 153 mm. Showing a Transvaal farmer watched by a young boy, attaching a heavy block of wood to strips over ox hide hanging from a wooden framework. It is unclear whether E. John Butler is the photographer or the person photographed.

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113 x 152 mm. Showing the farmer seen in the Y305J/141 tightening and stretching the strips of ox-hide using a length of wood inserted above the weight as a lever to twist the bunch of reins. It is unclear whether E. John Butler is the photographer or the person photographed.

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205 x 153 mm. Showing rapids on the Crocodile River in the eastern Transvaal pouring over a massive formation of broken rocks. This is not the Limpopo, also known as the Crocodile River.

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170 x 120 mm. Showing a herd of tsesseby, a kind of large antelope, in a woodland clearing.

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177 x 139 mm. Showing a pair of waterbuck in light woodland.

Scope and Contents 206 x 152 mm. A general view showing the plant and workings of the Sheba Gold Mining Company. The Sheba mine was discovered in 1884 by the brothers Barber after whom the town was named, '...one of the two, while at rest on trek, crashed his hammer on a rock by which he sat. Knowing something of geology, he immediately saw that the exposed quartz was exceptionally rich in the metal of which they were all in search. His thoughtless stroke was the nucleus of the famous Sheba mine, which,...

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127 x 192 mm. Showing mine workings on the steep hillside of the Sheba Reef.

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124 x 192 mm. Showing mine workings on the steep hillside of the Sheba Reef.

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The majority of these were taken in the north of the province; at Magoebaskoof (two visits); Tzaneen (including a sequence showing sisal growing and processing); Vendaland in the extreme north and a few coming south to Orhigstad and Graskop. A group taken at Mala Mala camp is assumed to be in the Transvaal, though the precise location has not been found. The section concludes with a visit to a fishing lodge at Dulstroom in December 1969.

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The majority of these were taken in the north of the province; at Magoebaskoof (two visits); Tzaneen (including a sequence showing sisal growing and processing); Vendaland in the extreme north and a few coming south to Orhigstad and Graskop. A group taken at Mala Mala camp is assumed to be in the Transvaal, though the precise location has not been found. The section concludes with a visit to a fishing lodge at Dulstroom in December 1969.

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The majority of these were taken in the north of the province; at Magoebaskoof (two visits); Tzaneen (including a sequence showing sisal growing and processing); Vendaland in the extreme north and a few coming south to Orhigstad and Graskop. A group taken at Mala Mala camp is assumed to be in the Transvaal, though the precise location has not been found. The section concludes with a visit to a fishing lodge at Dulstroom in December 1969.

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193 x 124 mm. Showing a large group around the step of the Transvaal Share and Claim Exchange, a single storey corrugated iron building run by the Trust and Agency Company Limited.

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202 x 151 mm. A view looking along the line towards the tunnel through a large spur of rock.

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153 x 206 mm. A view looking down on to the face of the waterfall on the Elands River after which Waterval Boven and Waterval Onder are named.

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Collection of 12 monochrome postcards of the Transvaal and Orange Free State.

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206 x 148 mm. A view looking down on a curving section of track climbing the side of a steep hill on the Laurenco Marques line near Waterval Onder. The tunnel in the sheer cliff face can be seen in the background. The line here features a central rack meshed into cogs on the underside of the locomotive to provide purchase on the steep gradient. The only rack railway in South Africa, it became obsolete with the advent of more powerful engines.

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206 x 147 mm. Showing the rack railway running between sheer rock faces towards the entrance to the tunnel near Waterval Boven. Founded as a railway camp around 1894, Waterval Boven was used by the Boers as a prisoner of war camp in the South African war.

Scope and Contents 211 x 154 mm. A view looking down on to and along the Crocodile River, with thick woodland on either bank. NZASM was the initials of the Nederlands Zuid-Afrikaanse Spoorweg Maatskappij or Netherlands South African Railways Company, formed in Holland in 1884 to build a railway from Laurenco Marques to Pretoria. The first line, from Johannesburg to Boksburg was completed in 1889, but the link with Delagoa Bay was not finished until 1895 after many delays and much loss of life through...

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203 x 152 mm. Showing the waterfall, cascades and pool on the Elands River at Waterval Boven.

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203 x 152 mm. A view looking along the Elands River Valley at Waterval Onder with a road bridge in the foreground and a section of the Lourenco Marques Railway following the course of the river along the side of the valley.