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A view looking along a streambed at Montshiwa’s Kraal towards a wood and earth bridge resting on wooden piles. Three African youths stand on the bridge facing the photographer.

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A view looking along a streambed at Montshiwa’s Kraal towards a similar bridge to the one seen in Y3052A/12. A group of African children (partially obscured by foliage) stand on the bridge, with the European also seen in Y3052A/11 and 14, and an African woman standing on the bank in the foreground. Photograph taken May 1890.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection consists of a negatives album, produced by Lennon Ltd., Cape Town, containing 125 x 95 mm negatives and an envelope with six further negatives of the same size. Some are poor photographs but many that are apparently very faint contain a good deal of detail. Seven modern prints have also been made and are listed as Y305U/105-111. The images were taken by Albert Ernest Lamb and the captions are from the list in the front of the album. The captions have been used as titles...

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Original print and modern copy. Showing the wagons and tents of the officers of the Pioneer Column on the veld near Mafeking with a group of unidentified Europeans gathered near a camp fire in the foreground.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection consists of a negatives album, produced by Lennon Ltd., Cape Town, containing 125 x 95 mm negatives and an envelope with six further negatives of the same size. Some are poor photographs but many that are apparently very faint contain a good deal of detail. Seven modern prints have also been made and are listed as Y305U/105-111. The images were taken by Albert Ernest Lamb and the captions are from the list in the front of the album. The captions have been used as titles...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection consists of a negatives album, produced by Lennon Ltd., Cape Town, containing 125 x 95 mm negatives and an envelope with six further negatives of the same size. Some are poor photographs but many that are apparently very faint contain a good deal of detail. Seven modern prints have also been made and are listed as Y305U/105-111. The images were taken by Albert Ernest Lamb and the captions are from the list in the front of the album. The captions have been used as titles...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection consists of a negatives album, produced by Lennon Ltd., Cape Town, containing 125 x 95 mm negatives and an envelope with six further negatives of the same size. Some are poor photographs but many that are apparently very faint contain a good deal of detail. Seven modern prints have also been made and are listed as Y305U/105-111. The images were taken by Albert Ernest Lamb and the captions are from the list in the front of the album. The captions have been used as titles...

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Modern copy. Showing part of ‘C’ Troop with field pieces and Maxim guns standing in front of a group of granite boulders. Jack Roach stands right of centre and H. Law at the far right of the print. Photograph probably taken at Mafeking, May 1890.

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An informal portrait showing a group of men from ‘C’ Troop with field pieces in the background. Jack Roach lies on the ground at the left of the print with Gunner Law standing right of centre in the foreground. An unidentified figure in the modern copy has two crosses marked beside his head. Photograph probably taken at Mafeking, May 1890.

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Modern copy. A formal group portrait of 25 uniformed N.C.O.s posed in front of a tent probably at Mafeking in May 1890. Figures identified in the album are Hill, Stoward, Friday Wallace, Deepdale, Ogilvie, Jim Finncare, Binkley, Arthur Eyre, Spreckley and Rice Hamilton.

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196 x 134 mm. Showing the unhitched stage-coach standing in front of the P.M. Fincham's store and the Standard Restaurant, with three young Africans posed near the shafts of the vehicle.

Scope and Contents A group portrait showing the identified figures and eight other Europeans posed beside a row of wagons, the nearest of which bears the legend ‘James Stanton, Builder, Grahamstown’. Rev. John Smith Moffat had left the LMS in 1879 and was at this time the British Representative in Matabeleland. Sir Sidney Shippard was the Administrator of British Bechuanaland. The Civil Commissioner and Resident Magistrate at Mafeking from 1890-2 was A.G. Hatchard. Also identified (beneath the following plate)...

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Modern copy. A similar view to Y3052A/15 but taken from closer in and showing the figures in the photograph in more detail. Photograph probably taken in May 1890.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection consists of a negatives album, produced by Lennon Ltd., Cape Town, containing 125 x 95 mm negatives and an envelope with six further negatives of the same size. Some are poor photographs but many that are apparently very faint contain a good deal of detail. Seven modern prints have also been made and are listed as Y305U/105-111. The images were taken by Albert Ernest Lamb and the captions are from the list in the front of the album. The captions have been used as titles...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection consists of a negatives album, produced by Lennon Ltd., Cape Town, containing 125 x 95 mm negatives and an envelope with six further negatives of the same size. Some are poor photographs but many that are apparently very faint contain a good deal of detail. Seven modern prints have also been made and are listed as Y305U/105-111. The images were taken by Albert Ernest Lamb and the captions are from the list in the front of the album. The captions have been used as titles...

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Original print and modern copy. A view looking towards the thatched huts of Montshiwa’s Kraal, surrounded by a stone perimeter. A group of African boys stand in the foreground. Montshiwa (c. 1814-1896) was Chief of the Ratshidi branch of the Rolong people. He made his capital at Mafeking when he succeeded his father in 1849.

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A view of Montshiwa’s Kraal looking across open boulder- strewn ground towards the settlement of thatched huts. Two African youths in European clothes stand in the foreground.

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Modern copy. A view looking across open ground towards the thatched huts of Montshiwa’s Kraal. A group of Africans and Europeans and a covered wagon stand in the foreground. One of the Europeans (unidentified and dressed in a check jacket and white trousers) also appears in Y3052A/13-14.

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Showing the European seen in Y3052A/11 and 13 seated on a rock near two Africans among the thatched mud huts at Montshiwa’s Kraal.