Scope and Contents A volume containing albumen prints, most measuring approximately 190 x 140 mm., with captions either on the prints or written beneath in the hand of Charles Du Val. The captions have been recorded as found and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. The 'News of the Camp' was published under the editorial partnership of Du Val and Charles William Deeker during the siege of Pretoria. After the war...

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Collection of modern copies (circa 1932) of original prints circa 1896, which are uncaptioned. The whereabouts of the originals of these copies has not been traced.

Scope and Contents Collection of loose prints showing the three pages of the Proclamation issued by S.J. Burger and L.J. Meyer to the Burgomaster of Pretoria on May 29 1900, placing the city under his authority as the Boer Government quitted Pretoria in the face of the British advance. The document, in Afrikaans but accompanied by a letterpress English translation, instructed the Burgomaster to 'call up inhabitants for special services to preserve peace and order,' 'to remove all undesirables out of the...