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98 x 72 mm. Showing an European passenger and Zulu driver.

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A view of Durban's point, with wharves and shipping in the harbour. The print is initialled 'SA'.

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188 x 141 mm. A view from the town hall looking south-east over the town towards the Bay of Natal and The Bluff. 'View from Town Hall' is also printed on the photograph itself.

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196 x 135 mm. Showing the sailing ship 'Eastern Star' beached on Back (South) Beach, with spectators on the sands watching the efforts of a group of labourers to moor the ship securely. In the background are the North Pier, the harbour entrance and the Bluff. The ship was probably wrecked during the same storm which beached the 'Surprise' in 1880.

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203 x 139 mm. Showing the wide cascades of the Edendale Falls and pool below with hills in the background.

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203 x 137 mm. Showing the military escort and crowds of spectators on the waterfront at Durban on 11 June 1879 to watch the embarkation of the body of Prince Napoleon aboard the tug 'Adonis' (only the funnel of which is here visible) for transportation out to H.M.S. 'Boadicea' lying beyond the bar.

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152 x 101 mm. Showing the military escort and crowds of spectators on the waterfront, at Durban on 11 June 1879 to watch the embarkation of the body of Prince Napoleon aboard the tug 'Adonis' for transportation out to H.M.S. 'Boadicea' lying beyond the bar. The photographers signature 'Kisch' is stamped on the reverse, but shows through the print.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: An album recording the visit of Lord and Lady Hewart to South Africa. The album is inscribed 'To Lord and Lady Hewart: A Momento [sic] of a Trip to South Africa'. It was presumably the work and gift of a friend who travelled with them as it covers the entire journey from leaving Southampton to their return. The photographs are amateur work and are fully described in captions written in white ink, not always easily legible, on the black pages of the album. The captions have been recorded...

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70 x 80 mm. Half tone illustration cut from The Times. Richard Philip (Dick) King, (1813-1871) was a pioneer in Natal who acquired the sobriquet 'Saviour of Natal' in 1842 when he rode to Grahamstown to obtain help for the garrison under Captain Smith, besieged by the Boers near Congella. Annotated in the top left hand corner: 'Times April 17 sent by HFW'.

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

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190 x 135 mm. A view from the garden showing a family group posed on the verandah of a corrugated iron roofed bungalow in The Berea, Durban's residential district. Seated in the deckchair is Charles Lewis Redwood. The woman seated near him is probably his wife, Olivia Elizabeth Redwood (née Lys). The two other men in the photograph are unidentified.

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197 x 132 mm. Showing a family group with Zulu servants outside the bungalow 'Fairleigh'. At the centre of the group are Charles Redwood and his wife. The young man and the three children (two boys, possibly twins, and a girl) in the group are unidentified.

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A commercially published collection of prints housed in a folder. The captions have been used as titles and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. Unless otherwise stated the prints measure 95 x 70 mm.

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203 x 151 mm. Showing the steamer 'Umvolosi' in the floating dock at Durban.

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202 x 137 mm. A view looking south across the Tugela River from Zululand towards Fort Pearson, situated on the summit of the cliffs on the farther bank. The photographer is probably J. R. Mee.

Scope and Contents 200 x 136 mm. A view from the KwaZulu-Natal side looking over the Tugela River into Zululand with the small wooden Fort Pearson situated on the headland overlooking the crossing into Zululand. In the foreground are tents of the Naval Brigade. The forces at Fort Pearson forming the right, or eastern prong of the advance into Zululand were under the command of Colonel Charles Pearson and consisted of a battalion of the 99th regiment, the second Battilion third regiment, a troop of mounted...

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195 x 135 mm. A view looking across Smith Street towards the gardens and the Durban Court House (completed in 1866).

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204 x 154 mm. A view looking over the golf course at Umkomaas, with a player driving off in the foreground and the sea in the distance.

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168 x 109 mm. Showing the unpretentious stone building of Government House from the lawn.

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154 x 105 mm. Showing the front façade of the two storey stone building from the front lawn.

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207 x 152 mm.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

A commercially published collection of prints housed in a folder. The captions have been used as titles and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. Unless otherwise stated the prints measure 95 x 70 mm.

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80 x 60 mm. Oval. Lt. F.S. Roberts, son of F.M. Lord Roberts, was killed at Colenso on 15 December 1899, attempting to save the R.F.A. guns, and was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross.

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97 x 121 mm. Showing the cairn of stones erected in memory of the Natal Carabineers killed during the rising of 1873.

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118 x 95 mm. Showing a group of soldiers and civilians standing around the grave of the men killed in the Boer attack on an armoured train near Frere. The print is numbered '8506'.