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76 x 52 mm. Three Africans playing crapps, possibly at Kimberley.

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78 x 52 mm. Probably at the Kimberley mine.

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Envelope containing monochrome postcards (set of twelve plus additional card) showing views in Cape Province.

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192 x 126 mm. Showing miners and company employees grouped around the main shaft at the base of the Big Hole.

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191 x 125 mm. Showing winding gear and mining plant at the edge of the Big Hole, Kimberley.

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 The captions have been recorded as found and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms.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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The print is initialled 'SA'.

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The print is initialled 'SA'.

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The print is initialled 'SA'.

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The print is initialled 'SA'.

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191 x 123 mm. A view looking along an unidentified street in Kimberley lined with the small single -storey premises of diamond brokers. Most of the owners are standing on the steps outside their offices posing for the photographer.

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190 x 138 mm. Showing a long row of freight wagon trolleys outside the concentrating plant buildings at Kimberley.

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151 x 202 mm. A view looking down into the 'Big Hole' at Kimberley.

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191 x 139 mm. A view showing machinery inside the Pulsator House at Kimberley.

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203 x 152 mm. A view inside the Pulsator House, showing the trays on which diamonds are separated from other material by vibration.

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190 x 101 mm. Showing a pile of uncut diamonds on a table.

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190 x 139 mm. Showing mining buildings and hoisting gear.

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191 x 124 mm. Showing a sorter grading diamonds into piles of various sizes onto a long table, with a figure beside him entering details into a ledger.

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77 x 50 mm.

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207 x 152 mm. Showing a collection of small piles of diamonds of various grades laid out on white paper on a long table in the valuing and classifying room at the De Beers head office.

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127 x 86 mm.

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87 x 128 mm.

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190 x 124 mm. Showing excavated land, with winding gear on the lip of the hole in the background at the Du Toits Pan Mine in south east Kimberley.

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212 x 158 mm. A view looking along the top of an area of plots with a group of miners posing for the photographer beside a donkey cart in the foreground. Beyond is a busy scene of miners working at their claims, with branches delineating the borders of individual plots and hills of excavated earth in the background.

Scope and Contents A set of seven spearheads of various sizes crafted in the early 1930s by the indigenous people of Kimberley District, Western Australia. They are made from recycled glass bottles and insulators removed from telegraph poles and continue a three thousand year-old tradition of making spearheads. Their distinctive serrated edges were made by ‘pressure flaking’—a technique which involves applying a pointed stick or a shaped piece of animal bone at a very slight oblique angle to the flat of the...