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Umzinto (inhabited place)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

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Christmas 1900 Umzinto, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3058D/3
Scope and Contents

101 x 74mm. Showing a group of 17 people (15 European) in a woodland setting. No identifications have been made, but the white-bearded figure lying on the ground at the right looks similar to the man standing beside the buggy in the preceding print and this may be Robert Armstrong.

Dates: 1900
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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Group of coolies, Umzinto [historic title], 1888

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305C/43
Scope and Contents

190 x 124 mm. A group portrait of South Asian labourers and their families taken at the sugar mining centre of Umzinto.

Dates: 1888
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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Sugar mill and plantation, Umzinto, Natal [i.e. KwaZulu-Natal], 1888

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305C/66
Scope and Contents

192 x 124 mm. A view from a neighbouring hillside looking down on the sugar mill buildings, with cultivated land beyond and the manager's bungalow on the hillside in the background.

Dates: 1888
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).