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Drakensberg (mountain)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 33 Collections and/or Records:

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An officer of the Basutoland Mounted Police on 'trek', 1910 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30546A/2
Scope and Contents

83 x 141 mm (loosely mounted on foolscap paper with notes beneath the photograph). Showing an unidentified police officer standing beside his tent in an overcoat in a snow-covered landscape in the Drakensberg Mountains.

Dates: 1910 - 1911
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Ascending Mohlesi Pass from Natal, 1910 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30546A/22
Scope and Contents

122 x 96 mm. Showing a group of pack horses and a few men climbing the steep grassy pass from Natal into Basutoland.

Dates: 1910 - 1911
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Birds and flowers, 1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham Z
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds: Slides of South Africa created by John Ewart Marnham, the British Consul-General in Johannesburg from 1967 to 1970. They are arranged in 10 groups (Q-Z). The earlier photographs (Q-S) however, date from a visit to what were then the High Commission Territories of Swaziland, Bechuanaland and Basutoland towards the close of 1965.The first photographs from Marnham's term of office in South Africa date from April 1967 and show scenes in the garden of his Johannesburg house, which...
Dates: 1967
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Border scenery between Langalabelele and Macemoholu Passes, 1910 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30546A/19
Scope and Contents

97 x 121 mm. Showing a spur of sheer cliffs jutting out over the valley floor.

Dates: 1910 - 1911
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Cathkin Peak, Drakensberg, Natal [KwaZulu-Natal], 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305E/110
Scope and Contents

152 x 202 mm. A view looking across rocky gorges to the distant flat-topped Cathkin Peak.

Dates: 1925
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Chief Rafalakasi and his brother (?) Khucle on visit to Mokhoblang [i.e. Mokhotlong?] Camp and his followers, 1910 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30546A/31
Scope and Contents

121 x 97 mm. Showing the Chief and his brother, mounted on horseback, with a retinue of followers riding behind.

Dates: 1910 - 1911
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Drakensberg : border country in vicinity of Redi Passes, Basutoland-Natal border, 1910 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30546A/18
Scope and Contents

96 x 121 mm. Showing a rock face composed, like much of the Drakensberg Range, of sheer cliff interspersed with broken scree.

Dates: 1910 - 1911
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Drakensberg, krantzes in vicinity of Mokhoblang Passes, Basutoland-Natal border, 1910 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30546A/16
Scope and Contents

121 x 96 mm. Showing precipitous krantzes (high rock walls encircling a valley) in the Drakensberg Mountains.

Dates: 1910 - 1911
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Drakensberg Mountains, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC South Africa/42
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Collection of monochrome postcards (one card missing from original set of twelve).

Dates: 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Drakensberg Mountains, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC South Africa/43
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Collection of monochrome postcards (one card missing from original set of twelve).

Dates: 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Drakensberg, Natal [i.e. KwaZulu-Natal], 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305D/43
Scope and Contents

207 x 159 mm. A view looking along a valley and river gorge towards the Drakensberg Range, with the flat topped Cathkin peak in the centre of the print. A figure on horseback stands on the path in the foreground. On the print itself is written '?Cathkin Peak, Natal' and 'Drakensburg', and it is also signed 'B.W. Caney, Durban.'

Dates: 1880 - 1889
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Drakensberg, Natal [KwaZulu-Natal] - Mont-Aux-Sources, Cathedral Spires, 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305E/112
Scope and Contents

203 x 151 mm. A view looking along a river gorge towards the vertical pinnacles of the Cathedral Spires.

Dates: 1925
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Drakensberg, Nomahadi Pass, leading to (?) Wilzies Hoek, C.R.C, 1910 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30546A/15
Scope and Contents

96 x 122 mm. A view looking along the track which clings to the lower slopes of the rock faces at the edge of the Nomahadi Pass in the Drakensberg Mountains.

Dates: 1910 - 1911
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Drakensberg Range: main Tugela Gorge, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC South Africa/44
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Collection of monochrome postcards (one card missing from original set of twelve).

Dates: 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Drakensberg Range, Natal: view of Mont aux Sources , 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468N/504
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Collection of negatives, contact prints and enlargements. Mann travelled from London, which he left on 20 June 1935, via Egypt to the Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Belgian Congo, French Equatorial Africa and the Cameroons to South Africa, arriving in Johannesburg on 31 October. 1-516 are enlargements of Mann's photographs and 517-575 are photographic postcards, chiefly of the Sudan. In addition there is a box containing the original negatives 45 x 45 mm with contact prints, but these have...
Dates: Other: 1935
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Drakensberg Range, Natal: view of Mont aux Sources, 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468N/505
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Collection of negatives, contact prints and enlargements. Mann travelled from London, which he left on 20 June 1935, via Egypt to the Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Belgian Congo, French Equatorial Africa and the Cameroons to South Africa, arriving in Johannesburg on 31 October. 1-516 are enlargements of Mann's photographs and 517-575 are photographic postcards, chiefly of the Sudan. In addition there is a box containing the original negatives 45 x 45 mm with contact prints, but these have...
Dates: Other: 1935
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Drakensberg Range, Natal: view of Mont aux Sources, 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468N/506
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Collection of negatives, contact prints and enlargements. Mann travelled from London, which he left on 20 June 1935, via Egypt to the Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Belgian Congo, French Equatorial Africa and the Cameroons to South Africa, arriving in Johannesburg on 31 October. 1-516 are enlargements of Mann's photographs and 517-575 are photographic postcards, chiefly of the Sudan. In addition there is a box containing the original negatives 45 x 45 mm with contact prints, but these have...
Dates: Other: 1935
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Drakensberg Range, Natal: view of Mont aux Sources, 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468N/507
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Collection of negatives, contact prints and enlargements. Mann travelled from London, which he left on 20 June 1935, via Egypt to the Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Belgian Congo, French Equatorial Africa and the Cameroons to South Africa, arriving in Johannesburg on 31 October. 1-516 are enlargements of Mann's photographs and 517-575 are photographic postcards, chiefly of the Sudan. In addition there is a box containing the original negatives 45 x 45 mm with contact prints, but these have...
Dates: Other: 1935
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Drakensberg Range, Natal: view of the Howick Falls , 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468N/508
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Collection of negatives, contact prints and enlargements. Mann travelled from London, which he left on 20 June 1935, via Egypt to the Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Belgian Congo, French Equatorial Africa and the Cameroons to South Africa, arriving in Johannesburg on 31 October. 1-516 are enlargements of Mann's photographs and 517-575 are photographic postcards, chiefly of the Sudan. In addition there is a box containing the original negatives 45 x 45 mm with contact prints, but these have...
Dates: Other: 1935
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Drakensberg showing Natal in distance, 1910 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30546A/17
Scope and Contents

121 x 96 mm. A view looking past a rock face in the Drakensberg Mountains, towards the lower lying land of Natal.

Dates: 1910 - 1911
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Grave of Natal Carabineers killed in Langalabelele Rebellion at the top of Langalabelele Pass, Basutoland-Natal border, 1910 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30546A/23
Scope and Contents

97 x 121 mm. Showing the cairn of stones erected in memory of the Natal Carabineers killed during the rising of 1873.

Dates: 1910 - 1911
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Mohlesi : showing barrier fences, Basutoland-Natal border, 1910 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30546A/21
Scope and Contents

121 x 96 mm. Showing a group of trek horses grazing on a slope in the pass, with the barrier fence visible at the right of the print.

Dates: 1910 - 1911
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Mont-Aux-Sources,The Sentinel, 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305E/111
Scope and Contents

203 x 139 mm. A view looking along a grassy valley towards Mont-Aux-Sources, the second highest peak in the Drakensberg Mountains.

Dates: 1925
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Mt Aux Sources in the Drakensberg, 1910 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30546A/12
Scope and Contents

134 x 81 mm (loosely mounted on foolscap paper with notes beneath the photograph). 10, 763 feet above sea level. A view looking towards the flat topped peak of Mount Aux Sources, in fact 10, 822 feet above sea level.

Dates: 1910 - 1911
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Officers' patrol : on the border. A snow blizzard, 1910 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30546A/25
Scope and Contents

121 x 97 mm. A slightly blurred view showing pack horses grazing on snow covered land, with a tent and two figures at the left of the print.

Dates: 1910 - 1911
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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