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Album of mostly 80 x 54 mm prints. There is a brief list describing items 1-98, which document the trip from Southampton to South Africa, travel in South Africa, and the visit to Southern Rhodesia. Many photos do not appear in the exact numerical order given in the listing. The rest of the images are uncaptioned, but their general locations have been identified by reference to the diary RCMS 353/1.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Album of mostly 80 x 54 mm prints. There is a brief list describing items 1-98, which document the trip from Southampton to South Africa, travel in South Africa, and the visit to Southern Rhodesia. Many photos do not appear in the exact numerical order given in the listing. The rest of the images are uncaptioned, but their general locations have been identified by reference to the diary RCMS 353/1.

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Print at RCMS 353/2/62.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Album of mostly 80 x 54 mm prints. There is a brief list describing items 1-98, which document the trip from Southampton to South Africa, travel in South Africa, and the visit to Southern Rhodesia. Many photos do not appear in the exact numerical order given in the listing. The rest of the images are uncaptioned, but their general locations have been identified by reference to the diary RCMS 353/1.

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55 x 73 mm.

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62 x 83 mm.

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201 x 148 mm. Showing the two storey residency at Pretoria: a verandahed brick building with a corrugated iron roof and tended garden in the foreground.

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192 x 127 mm. Showing Bronkhorst Spruit in the foreground, crossed by the Pretoria - Middleburg Road in the background.

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205 x 152 mm. A viiew looking west along Church Street East towards Church Square with the premises of Haarhoff and Rorke in the left foreground. With ponycabs, cyclists and pedestrians on the street. A single tramline runs along the street towards Church Square.

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192 x 125 mm. A view looking along Church Street East, Pretoria, towards Church Square, with two African women in the foreground.

Scope and Contents 82 x 107 mm. A head and shoulders, full face portrait of Colonel Sir William Owen Lanyon (1842-87), Administrator of the Transvaal, March 1879-1881, when he was instructed to relinquish the office owing to his original misjudgements over Boer strength and feeling. Lanyon’s previous career had been a varied one of soldiering and administration in several countries. Joining the army in 1860, he served in the West Indies from 1865-73 (ADC and private secretary to the Governor of Jamaica...

Scope and Contents 85 x 107 mm. A head and shoulder, three-quarter profile of Colonel (later Sir) William Bellairs (1828-1913) who came to Pretoria after an active military career as Brigadier General in charge of the Transvaal. Bellairs had entered the 49th Regiment in 1846, serving between 1854-73, in the Crimea, the West Indies, Ireland, Canada and Gibraltar. From December 1877-March 1878 he was placed in command of the Eastern frontier of Cape Colony during the 9th Frontier War and in 1879 served on Lord...

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190 x 140 mm. A group portrait of Officers of the Commissariat and Transport Departments, posed against a background of bell tents among which the Union Jack is flying. The printed caption on the print, which possibly supplied identifications of some of the figures seen here, is faded into illegibility.

Scope and Contents The primary function of the Empire Tour was to impress the party with the prosperity and economic potential of the Dominions. Kelsey reported on many visits to farms, agricultural colleges, research stations, industrial sites and commercial centres. As an engineer, he was particularly interested in mines, factories and power stations. The party also toured many sites of natural beauty as well as museums and galleries. Kelsey recorded his impressions of the people he encountered and their...

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128 x 81. Cart drawn by two donkeys.

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87 x 120 mm.

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122 x 84 mm. Group of girls behind a barrier.

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72 x 124 mm.

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127 x 83 mm. Group outside a hut.

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120 x 82 mm.

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190 x 124 mm. Showing the newly completed Dutch Reformed Church in Church square, with a wagon and a span of oxen drawn up in front of the building. The church, which was inaugurated in January 1885, replaced the one which was burned down in 1882.

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191 x 141 mm. Showing the bell tents of Nos. 2 and 3 Coys of the Pretoria Rifles in the Convent Redoubt, with men washing, cleaning equipment or having breakfast in the foreground.

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191 x 124 mm. This is presumably the point at which Church Street East crosses the Apies River.

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189 x 142 mm. A view looking along Church Street East, Pretoria, towards Church Square from the Apies River near Lion Bridge. On the left is a watermill and barn and on the right the house built for Stephanus Meintjes by Landdrost Andries du Toit in the 1850s. Information from ‘Centenary Album. Pretoria’s First century in Illustration’ (Pretoria, 1952).

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141 x 87 mm. Showing a group of men of the 2nd Battalion, 21st Regiment Royal Scots Fusiliers on parade in front of Fort Commeline. Lieutenant Charles Ernest Commeline, who constructed the stone blockhouse situated on the hills to the south of the town, stands in the foreground at the head of the group. See also Y3055A/11.