Album consists of 48 photographs roughly the same size (170 x110mm) with handwritten captions depicting scenes taken at Robinson Deep Gold Mine in 1908. 4 blurred amateur photographs (100 x80mm) are also included.
There are 24 stiff card leaves in the album, with a few blank leaves interspersed, untitled green cloth worn and rubbed along the edges and the spine.
There are photographs of the following: Marie Reeve with the miners Several of Frank Kaufmann One of Arthur Arnold Many of Zulu Warriors and the Zulu War dance One photograph depicts an Empire outing at LangLaagte Deep Mine.
By 1906 the Robinson Deep Mine just off Eloff Street in Johannesburg had become, at 800 metres, the deepest producing gold mine in the world. http://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/all-glitters-glitter-gold-luli-callinicos
- Size: Oblong 8vo (240 x190mm)
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