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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.' All photographs by C Akerman except no. 73, which is by 'F. Teschner'.

Scope and Contents 206 x 136 mm. Showing the graves of other ranks at Fort Pearson or Fort Tenedos, the wooden crosses shaded by two trees. These men were probably killed by disease rather than in action. Legible inscriptions on the crosses are as follows: Private N. Jones, 'D' Coy, 99 D.E. Regt. (Duke of Edinburgh's Lanarkshire), died 3 March 1879; W.J. Lumar of H.M.S. 'Tenedos', died at Fort Tenedos 31 January 1879; Private W. Painter, 'D' Coy. 99 D.E. Regt. Died 13 March 1879 aged 20; Private C. Baden,...

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199 x 137 mm. Distant view of an encampment of tents at Bennett’s Drift.

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205 x 133 mm. A view looking over scrubland towards the Tugela River with the tents of the Naval Brigade overlooking the river. Not visible in this print is Fort Pearson, beyond the tents. In the foreground small kraals dot the countryside. The print is stamped 'Lloyd Artist Natal.' [James Lloyd]

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119 x 95 mm. Showing a group of soldiers posed on and beside a loaded ox-wagon. The print is numbered '8507'.

Scope and Contents The early photographs in this section were taken during two visits to Kokstad in the east of the province; the first at the end of 1965 followed John Ewart Marnham's visit to Lesotho; the remainder dated August 1967. A number of purely family photographs have been removed. Following these are a number of scenes in the vicinity of Cape Town and along the southern coast - Somerset West, George, Knysa, Hermanus, the ostrich farm at Oudstchoorn, the mouth of the Storms River and nearby...

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165 x 109 mm. A view from the road showing the small stone church. Exact location unidentified.

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152 x 202 mm. A view looking across rocky gorges to the distant flat-topped Cathkin Peak.

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Correspondence; negatives; press cuttings; reports; Chairman's address to the Liberal Party's Annual Congress, 1955; Alan Paton, 'The Charlestown story', a 26 page pamphlet on the African land issue; notices of eviction; questions and answers in the House of Assembly.

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269 x 240 mm. A group portrait of the large band of musicians and dancers, with the huts of Tetelaka's kraal in the background. The location of the kraal has not been identified, nor has any information about Tetelaka himself been found. The print itself has the caption: 'Chief Tetelaka's band, Natal', and is numbered '157.'

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Photograph by Sapsco Real Photo.

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Photograph by A.R.

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101 x 74mm. Showing a group of 17 people (15 European) in a woodland setting. No identifications have been made, but the white-bearded figure lying on the ground at the right looks similar to the man standing beside the buggy in the preceding print and this may be Robert Armstrong.

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170 x 106 mm. A view looking SW along Church Street.

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191 x 125 mm. A view looking south west along Church Street from its junction with Commercial Road, with St. Peter's Church and the Zulu War memorial in the left foreground.

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203 x 151 mm. A view looking south west along Church Street from its junction with Commercial Road. In the left foreground can be seen the Cenotaph, with the tower of St. Peter's Church beyond.

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201 x 161 mm. Showing young men of this Bantu tribe smeared all over with white clay and dressed in grass skirts and grass headdresses which conceal their faces. During this period they are known as Abakweta or 'white boys', the ceremonies connected with the circumcision rites lasting several weeks.

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197 x 151 mm. Showing piles of coal, cranes and railway track on a wharf on the Bluff, the spit of land situated at the southern entrance to the Bay of Natal.

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198 x 113 mm. Showing a clearing in dense woodland on the KwaZulu-Natal coast. The print is unsigned but is probably by Caney.

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203 x 140 mm. Showing the power station buildings (erected in 1924) with the Tugela River in the foreground.

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203 x 136 mm. Showing tents, boxes and sacks of stores on the bank of the Tugela River below Fort Pearson, with a group of soldiers posed for the photographer in the foreground.

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158 x 111 mm. Showing the solid brick building of the old Court House.

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192 x 125 mm. Showing an ox-drawn wagon crossing a drift on a small river on the Umzinto road.

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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193 x 124 mm. Showing labourers loading harvested cane on to a bullock cart.