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206 x 137 mm. A view looking along West Street, Durban, with spans of oxen and wagons waiting on the unsurfaced street outside the hops and commercial premises which line the way. The print is signed 'Caney'.

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206 x 134 mm. A view looking along West Street from the junction with another, unidentified, road, with the general stores of W.H. Darby in the foreground and long spans of oxen drawing loaded wagons along West Street. The print is signed 'Caney'.

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204 x 147 mm. The caption continues: 'They use the small dress shields for these occassions, and sticks. They wear skins, beads and feathers. Near Eshowe.' This photograph may have been taken by Lyn Acutt. It is similar to a photograph in album held by the Killie Cambell Africana Library under the reference Album D07/001-231 Zulu Customs Book I 29500 [309425] and title, 'Royal visit, Eshowe, March 1947'.

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122 x 76 mm. The caption continues: 'wearing the short black kilted skirt and beads, and carrying black umbrellas, to which they have become very attached! A few have the proper dancing sticks, carved or beaded.'

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Collection of monochrome postcards (one card missing from original set of twelve).

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An engraving taken from a newspaper, undated.

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153 x 203 mm. The caption continues: 'Note the cattle kraal within the enclosure for safety at night. Water has to be carried from streams in the valley.' The reference 'E10' is written on the print. The photographer is unknown. An identical appears in an album held by the Killie Campbell Africana Library under the reference: Album D07/001-231 Zulu Customs Book 1 29500 [309425].

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151 x 205 mm. A full-face half-length portrait of a plump Zulu girl with decorative abdominal scarring. The photograph is probably by B.W. Caney, and is numbered '110'.

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77 x 123 mm. The caption continues 'The long black plumes are from the Sakubula. Near Inanda, Natal [i.e. KwaZulu-Natal]'.

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77 x 121 mm. The caption continues: ' Near Inanda, Natal [i.e. KwaZulu-Natal]'.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Collection of negatives, contact prints and enlargements. Mann travelled from London, which he left on 20 June 1935, via Egypt to the Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Belgian Congo, French Equatorial Africa and the Cameroons to South Africa, arriving in Johannesburg on 31 October. 1-516 are enlargements of Mann's photographs and 517-575 are photographic postcards, chiefly of the Sudan. In addition there is a box containing the original negatives 45 x 45 mm with contact prints, but these have...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Collection of negatives, contact prints and enlargements. Mann travelled from London, which he left on 20 June 1935, via Egypt to the Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Belgian Congo, French Equatorial Africa and the Cameroons to South Africa, arriving in Johannesburg on 31 October. 1-516 are enlargements of Mann's photographs and 517-575 are photographic postcards, chiefly of the Sudan. In addition there is a box containing the original negatives 45 x 45 mm with contact prints, but these have...

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151 x 194 mm. The caption continues: 'These men are in gala dress, carrying the small dress shield, and using the feathers of birds, and skins. Near Inanda.'

Scope and Contents 132 x 177 mm. Showing two Zulu warriors dressed in war regalia and armed with shields and assegais. The two men, the one on the left wearing the 'isicoco' or circular headring denoting a married man, the younger one wearing feathered plumes, are members of a 'black' or relatively inexperienced regiment: this is denoted by their shields which are black with a white latticework supporting structure. As the regiment increased in war service so the shields became progressively whiter, until...

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200 x 149 mm. Showing a large group of Zulu maidens gathered in two rows facing one another to perform a wedding dance. The print itself is numbered '52', is unsigned but is probably by B. W. Caney.

Scope and Contents 152 x 206 mm. The caption continues: 'visiting Durban from the Stanger district, wearing the married woman's special skirt of soft black skin, kilted, numerous necklaces, and beaded headdress on her finely plaited hair, rubbed with fat and clay. The children wear only a girdle and necklace of beads. 1948.' Although not credited in this album, an identical photograph by Mignon Herring is held in an album at the Killie Campbell Africana Library under the reference Album D10/001-255 Zulu...

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105 x 153 mm. The caption continues:'the one on the left is married.'

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The print is initialled 'SA'.

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The print is initialled 'SA'.

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The print is initialled 'SA' and also has the number '19' etched into the left hand corner.

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A collection of matt prints, each measuring 129 x 80 mm, mounted on two sheets of paper which have been folded to form a folder. The cover is anotated: 'Zululand - School Feeding Scheme. School - feeding, KwaMagwaza School, Melmoth, Zululand. Photos by Wren Robinson'.

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The print is initialled 'SA'.