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58 x 81 mm. A man with a cart, probably at the Kimberley mine.

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51 x 76 mm. Probably at Kimberley.

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328 x 233 mm. A view looking down from the upper storey of a building on to the busy scene in the market place below. Long spans of oxen drawing wagons loaded with timber and other produce stand in the foreground while an auction of some kind appears to be taking place in the market square itself. The far side of the square is lined with commercial premises with the buildings of the town beyond.

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203 x 152 mm. A view looking along Old De Beers Road towards the portico of the city hall which faces on to Market Square. In the left foreground motor cars are being repaired outside Holmes' Garage.

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190 x 123 mm. Showing the ornate facade of the Queen's Hotel, a brick building with an elaborate wrought ironwork verandah. On the gables, fashioned after Dutch Cape Colonial style, the legend '1881 Queen's Hotel' is carved in relief on inset panels. A group of men pose on the step, with a carriage and a team of horses in the roadway.

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205 x 154 mm. A view looking along a series of plots intersected by narrow roadways supported on wooden piles. On viewing this print it is easy to understand the accidents that took place as miners dug into the weakly shored structures bordering their plots.

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78 x 52 mm. A group of people inside a room, probably at the Kimberley mine.

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A printed book illustrated by photographic prints. The captions have been used as titles and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. The book resulted from a journey from Cape Town via Kimberley and the Transvaal to the Victoria Falls and back to Port Elizabeth.

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203 x 165 mm. A view looking along an excavated pit at Kimberley, honeycombed with individual square plots of varying depths and with connecting roadways running along either side.

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212 x 157 mm. A view looking along an excavated pit with a roadway and a group of miners to the left. Similar to Y3059L/1.

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216 x 157 mm. A view looking along a series of individual claims (more deeply excavated than those seen in the preceding prints), with rope ladders hanging down into the plots from the roadway at the right.

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192 x 126 mm. A view looking down on washing machinery and plant at the Kimberley mines.

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191 x 124 mm. Showing the washing machinery at the Bultfontein mine with a large group of miners posed on the hillside for the photographer. It was one of the larger Kimberley mines.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection consists of a negatives album, produced by Lennon Ltd., Cape Town, containing 125 x 95 mm negatives and an envelope with six further negatives of the same size. Some are poor photographs but many that are apparently very faint contain a good deal of detail. Seven modern prints have also been made and are listed as Y305U/105-111. The images were taken by Albert Ernest Lamb and the captions are from the list in the front of the album. The captions have been used as titles...