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Correspondence, articles and other papers, including material concerning Zululand and Mrs Robinson's 1981 visit to Lesotho.

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207 x 152 mm. Glossy print by Camera Craft, Pietermaritzburg. The photograph has been signed on the back by those present.

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A collection of photographs of Basutoland (now Lesotho) and Zululand taken or collected by Wren Robinson while engaged in educational and welfare work. Most have handwritten captions by Mrs Robinson either underneath or on the back.

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203 x 155 mm. A view looking south-west along Church Street from the junction with Commercial Road, with pedestrians, horses and oxcarts in the roadway. The tower of St. Peter's Church can be seen on the left of the street. The Zulu War memorial is on the left.

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204 x 147 mm. A view looking down onto the market square with Market Hall at the left of the print.

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201 x 148 mm. A view looking north-east along Church Street from the tower of St. Peter's Church, with the Commercial Road junction and the top section of the Zulu War Memorial in the foreground. Beyond is the open space of Market Square, with the Dutch Reformed Church on Voortrekker Street in the background.

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

Scope and Contents 172 x 114 mm. A view from the top storey of a building looking south-west along Church Street, Pietermartzburg. In the right foreground, at No. 22, are the premises of the wine and spirit merchant Edward Rance (1827-1876). This dates the picture to before 1879, by which year Rance is no longer featured in Vietzen (1963). He may have moved to these premises in 1975/6. This photograph was previously titled 'Durban, Natal', but 'Durban' has been crossed out by the original hand and...

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200 x 142 mm. Showing the Town Hall, in Renaissance style, standing at the junction of Church Street and Commercial Road. Opened in 1901 by the Duke of Cornwall and York (later George V) during his visit to the city, the building replaced the previous Town Hall, destroyed by fire in 1898.

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An engraving taken from a newspaper, undated.

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203 x 152 mm. Showing a large field planted out with pineapples.

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144 x 135 mm. A view from a neighbouring hill looking down on the small town of Pinetown ten miles north-west of Durban, with a military encampment of bell tents at the right of the print.

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Photograph by A.R.

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203 x 123 mm. Showing a steel girder bridge across the Mgeni River, probably near Pietermaritzburg.

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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.

Scope and Contents An album containing albumen prints, measuring approximately 190 x 130 mm, with handwritten captions beneath the plates. 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 their creation. The album contains views of Durban and Pietermaritzburg as well as Zulu War Scenes (at Fort Pearson, Isandhlwane and Rorke's Drift).Natal and Zululand in 1879.The photographs in this...

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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.'

Scope and Contents The collection comprises four small photograph albums and assorted loose photographs. The albums are labelled. The photographs have been grouped together loosely or in envelopes, labelled and arranged by year by R.F. Rainsford's daughter, Mrs Downend, prior to donating the material:1868-1919. Portraits of RFR and family.1910-11. Collection taken during Police work in 1911-13.1918. Kismayu during the Aulihan expedition 1917-1919. 1920. Kisumu jail; Nairobi Police...

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Photograph by A.R.

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205 x 154 mm. A view looking along the Umkomaas River at Umkomaas with a train crossing the river in the middle ground.

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173 x 108 mm. Showing the small chapel with a more substantial residential building to the right. Exact location unidentified.

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Reports on the prayer meeting held on 1 September 1963; petitions; press cuttings; letter from the Northern Natal African Landowners' Association.

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Showing a general view of Mission buildings. The print is initialled 'SA'.

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195 x 134 mm. A view looking across the Buffalo River from Zululand into Natal with the road from Isandhlwana to Helpmakaar crossing the drift at the left of the print.

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The print is initialled 'SA'.