Scope and Contents 190 x 141 mm. A view from the east looking down on the small settlement of tents and wooden houses at Pilgrim’s Rest, with two Africans standing on the hillside in the foreground. The size of the camp seen here would support a date around 1874-75 for the taking of this photograph and this accords with the engraving of the settlement published in the ‘Illustrated London News’ of July 3 1873. It is certainly considerably smaller than the town as Rowland J. Atcherley describes it in 1877 in ‘A...

Scope and Contents 189 x 142 mm. A view looking across one of the claims at Pilgrim’s Rest, with heavily excavated land and piles of top soil in the foreground. In a trench in the foreground stand European miners with a gang of African labourers. At the start of the rush there were no native diggers and A.P. Cartwright attributes their introduction to one Alois Nellmagius. Men from the Kimberly diamond diggings introduced further batches of African labour. The wooden houses seen in the background of the print...

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190 x 142 mm. Showing an excavated trench, water sluice and tents in the foreground with a group of huts and tents (probably part of the main settlement of Pilgrim’s Rest) on a rise beyond. Probably by H. Ferdinand Gros.

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175 x 125 mm. Showing a section of the mining town of Pilgrim's Rest.

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190 x 142 mm. A view looking along the gully with excavated land, water channels for gold separation and miners’ tents in the foreground. The name may have some connection with an attempted suicide at Pilgrim’s Rest described by W.C. Scully. Probably by H. Ferdinand Gros.