Album of 284 Kokak photographs, each 60 x 85 mm, contained in a Kodak album bound in half black leather with brown cloth sides - the spine is missing, with a hand written index to the photographs the first entry dated November 1899, ten pages on lined foolscap paper.
Many officers carried portable Kodak cameras which enabled them to take more informal photographs of life on campaign. Lt. Massey\'s pictures are particular interesting as many show the construction of blockhouses and how the lines were defended.
With five letters written to his sister Olive; 1. Modder River Camp, 19th January 100, a hurried note to catch the mail. 2. Glen Railway Station, Wednesday, March 28th, 1900, in which he describes an attack by the Boers on Colonels Crabbe, Coddrington, Trotter and Lygon near Glen Station; 3. Bloemfontein, May 6th, 1900, in which he describes the medical conditions in the town and a meeting with Winston Churchill. 4. Hanover Road, Cape Colony, 4. February 25th 1901, in which he describes being posted to railway protection duty for some time. 5. Pretoria, June 18th 1900; and one to his mother dated at Pretoria, June 27th, 1900.
1899 -1900
- Size: Album size: 210 x 330 mm
- Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
- Contact Person: Paul Mills
- Country: South Africa
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