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Description: | Early black and white prints (including fading albumen prints) relating to South Africa and the Boer War taken between 1860s-1920s. Many images record Port Elizabeth in the 1860s including the rowing club and a single panorama, other shots show General Smuts on the 'Isle De France' in a cabin interior portrait on the ship, a view of Colenso and the Bridge over Revaal River. other images depict British Army parades, native villages at Dar es Salaam (East Africa) in June 1918, British tented encampments, South african Kilamanjaro mountain ranges, native homes and village life, troops on leave pictured by waterfalls, a British cemetery, British troops mounted on horses led by Africans on foot, British officers overseeing african working parties, and British forces being offloaded at the harbourside Dar es Salaam and a single print of a 'Bartal Tree' used as machine gun emplacements when hollowed out. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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