Drakensberg (mountain)
Found in 33 Collections and/or Records:
On an officers' patrol : [illegible] Rock at the foot of Nomahadi Pass, 1910 - 1911
122 x 96 mm. Showing two Africans of the Basutoland Mounted Police standing with a group of pack horses in front of a large split domed rock.
On the Drakensberg, 1910 - 1911
81 x 138 mm (loosely mounted on foolscap paper with notes beneath the photograph). Showing a sheer cliff face in the Drakensberg Mountains in south-eastern Basutoland.
'Part of the Drakensberg Mountain slowing in the distance on the left, Giant's Castle and on the right Champayne Castle, both 10,000 feet above sea level', 1869 - 1877
Water colours and pen and ink sketches documenting Anderson's travels in southern Africa, accompanied by his original captions and explanatory notes. The original titles and captions have been enclosed in single quotation marks, and have been transcribed in the catalogue as found, with the exception of an egregiously offensive term used in some titles, which has not been transcribed. Where possible, modern place names have been supplied.
Source of the Tugela (not Tagela) in the Drakensberg Mountains, 1910
A series of watercolours commissioned from the Rhodesian artist Mrs Gilbert Stephenson to be used in colouring lantern slides to illustrate the fifth handbook, A.J. Sargent, 'South Africa: seven lectures (London, 1914). Stephenson had been recommended by the British South Africa Company.
'The Buttress' on Mount Aux Sources, 1910 - 1911
82 x 140 mm (loosely mounted on foolscap paper with notes beneath the photograph). A view looking towards the Buttress, all but the summit of which is concealed by mist. Mount Aux Sources lies in the Drakensberg Mountains near the Transvaal-Basutoland border and was, until 1951, thought to be the highest peak in South Africa.
'The Cathedral', Drakensberg Mountains, 1910 - 1911
141 x 80 mm (loosely mounted on foolscap paper with notes beneath the photograph). Showing the Cathedral Peak in the Drakensberg Mountains.
Typical inland border scenery, 1910 - 1911
120 x 97 mm. A view looking along a valley floor along which a small river runs with a flat-topped mountain on the skyline.
View in the Drakensberg Mountains, 1910 - 1911
82 x 140 mm (loosely mounted on foolscap paper with notes beneath the photograph). Showing a sheer rock face in the Drakensberg Range. Caption under photograph reads: 'The above photograph shows the extraordinary natural boundary between Natal and Basutoland formed by the Drakensberg. The sheer drop continues for a distance of about 70 miles broken at intervals by passes into Natal.'