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John Clark Collection

Photograph showing the massive accumulation at the ports of army stores for the coming battles.

John Clark Collection

Anglo-Boer War II 

Another picture of buglers, this time of Boer War period.

John Clark Collection

Long tom used by Boers in Siege of Ladysmith

John Clark Collection

These three hard-faced men - two drill sergeants and a sergeant-major- are Scots Guardsmen. They represented the old British army of Kipling's day. Note their padded chests, ramrod backs, and fine mustaches.

John Clark Collection

A cow cart being hailed across a Natal River.

Anglo Boer War II

John Clark Collection

Sunshine 8 shadow in the courtyard of this old school which dates back to the early colonial days of Natal. The first portion of the school was built in 1866. Boys' Model Oldest School

John Clark Collection

Old post office building- Pietermaritzburg

John Clark Collection

Picture taken of material salvaged from the first City Hall, gutted by fire in July 1898. The photographer is unknown. Picture lent by Mr. Lucius Rhind.

John Clark Collection

Gert Maritz

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Witness Lane. Pietermaritzburg

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Prince of Wales Hotel. Pietermaritzburg

John Clark Collection

Church Street in 1880, with at least three hitching rails in view on an earthen surface. Although most of the buildings here are gone, the general appearance of the street is easily recognizable by a modern citizen. The best building is the double-storied block of Edward Stantial the chemist.

John Clark Collection

The Prince of Wales Hotel, proprietor G. Salomon, as it looked in the period 1875-80. Originally built about 1840  as a 4-roomed cottage, it was owned by J.N. Boshof, a civil servant in the new colonial government, who later became president of the Orange Free State.

John Clark Collection

An 1864 view of two important buildings long since gone. The one on the left is the Colonial Bank of Ntal complete with customers' hitching rail and the other is the original Plough Hotel.

John Clark Collection

Another view of the Government School Room on the occasion of the opening of the 1858 session of the legislative council by Lieutenant-governor R.W. Keate (1867-72).

John Clark Collection

An early street lamp suspended above the door of Caltert's Printing Works in Printing Office Street. In its day it supplied illumination by paraffin, gas, and electricity. It dates back to 1878-80 when the original building was probably erected.

John Clark Collection

Although no documentary proof is available, according to Hendrick Cloete it was under this acacia tree in Pietermaritzburg that the decision of the republican Volksraad of 5 July 1842 to capitulate was taken. It was a fine example of the ukahamba tree with a spreading flat top.

John Clark Collection

An interesting picture of the 1890s showing the facade of the Standard Bank and its two guardian oak trees, David and Jonathan. Note the four-wheeler cabs with their sun-canopies.

John Clark Collection

The old muzzle-loader at the base of the Zulu War memorial.

John Clark Collection

The Natal Museum. A lady's bedroom at about the time of 1887. 

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