Album containing 100 photographs; 50 are 84 x 84 mm in size and 50 are 60 x 107 mm, and l full-plate 152 x 222 mm. The photographs are numbered 1 to 101but no key or captions are provided in the album.
The pictures appear to be from the guerrilla war period and are possibly of the Imperial Light Horse operating in the Northern Cape or the southern part of the Orange River Colony. One photograph is of the Fortuna Colliery. Another is of recruiting poster for the ILH. The final large photograph is of a group of approximately forty mounted troops – please see illustrations.
The photographs are mounted four to a page on thick card leaves with linen hinges in an album bound with leather and pebble grained-cloth – the spine is missing and the front cover detached.
The leaves are foxed but the photographs are generally in good condition.
- Size: Oblong 4to (225 x 280 mm)
- Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
- Contact Person: Paul Mills
- Country: South Africa
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