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198 x 137 mm. A view looking towards the narrow, cliff-surrounded channel where the St John's River, also known as the Umzimvubu or Elephant River, enters the Indian Ocean at Port St John.

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161 x 119 mm. Showing small farms and homesteads at Jamestown (30 miles south east of Aliwal North in the foothills of the Drakenberg range) with hills on the horizon.

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Showing an African man, clothed in a blanket, standing in front of his thatched hut with a young child behind him.

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Showing the thatched, circular huts of an African village about 27 miles from Port Elizabeth.

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A colour engraving of a picture by T.W. Bowler published by Day & Son, Lithographers to the Queen, London, 1864.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A printed book containing tipped-in reproductions from photographs, all measuring 140 x 100 mm, with brief letterpress captions beneath the prints. The captions have been recorded as found and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. The prints are grainy with high contrast. Consequently, the images are listed rather than described in detail, although occasional notes and cross-references on points of interest have been added. The process used in the reproductions has not...

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190 x 124 mm. A general view from a neighbouring hill looking over King William's Town on the Buffalo River.

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The print is initialled 'SA'.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A printed book containing tipped-in reproductions from photographs, all measuring 140 x 100 mm, with brief letterpress captions beneath the prints. The captions have been recorded as found and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. The prints are grainy with high contrast. Consequently, the images are listed rather than described in detail, although occasional notes and cross-references on points of interest have been added. The process used in the reproductions has not...

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196 x 129 mm. Showing the unsurfaced market square in King William's Town with outspanned ox teams and wagons in the centre.

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The print is initialled 'SA'.

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The print is initialled 'SA'.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A printed book containing tipped-in reproductions from photographs, all measuring 140 x 100 mm, with brief letterpress captions beneath the prints. The captions have been recorded as found and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. The prints are grainy with high contrast. Consequently, the images are listed rather than described in detail, although occasional notes and cross-references on points of interest have been added. The process used in the reproductions has not...

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153 x 104 mm. The caption continues: 'wearing the extremely heavy skirt made from the bashee palm. This headdress represents cattle horns and the dances are portraying a bull defeating his enemies. It is accompanied by snorts, and the sound of beating heels and clattering skirts. It is an extremely exhausting and intricate dance, and forms part of the initiation ceremonies.'

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152 x 134 mm. The caption continues: 'This is the costume worn just after the initiation ceremonies: white blankets with red stripes. It is death for any woman of their own race to see them, and they cover their faces with the blankets if a woman should appear. The women are warned by children when there are Kwetas about. One defiant woman paid the death penalty in 1946, and those responsible were not punished for this act. 1948.'

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137 x 86 mm. A view looking out over the town of Lady Grey, situated near the Lesotho border and named on its establishement in 1858 after Lady Elizabeth Grey, who had married the Governor Sir George Grey. In the background the mountains of the Wittebergen rise steeply. The photograph forms, with the following print, a panoramic view of the town.

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137 x 86 mm. The second half of a panoramic view of the town formed with Y305J/46.

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Landscape format.

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Landscape format.

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[No print]. [Missing].

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Landscape format. [Showing bridge over the river to the left of hill].

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Landscape format. [Mountain peaks rising up above clouds].

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Landscape format.

Scope and Contents From the File: Though the album is inserted here to avoid a gap in the numbering, it is not part of the Fisher Collection as such. It is however an album of the same type as those containing Fisher's own photographs and is labelled on the spine 'VIC South Africa Lectures IV, V, VI'. It appears to be a record album of the lantern slides used to accompany the Visual Instruction Committee lectures. From the captions it originally contained illustrations for the three lectures mentioned: Lecture IV: Karoo...

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76 x 99 mm. Showing a motor vessel in East London Harbour.