PHOTO ALBUM OF 32 PHOTOS OF BRIDGE AND RAILWAY DAMAGE DURING THE BOER WAR COLLECTED BY AN ENGINEER (?).

PHOTO ALBUM OF 32 PHOTOS OF BRIDGE AND RAILWAY DAMAGE DURING THE BOER WAR COLLECTED BY AN ENGINEER (?).  Johannesburg, c.1900. Oblong 1/2 leather and cloth photo album with some professional restorations. Album  measures 26.5cm by 18.5cm, edge to edge.   32pages with photographs, (14 unused mounts at the rear).   Mounts are slightly toned with some chipping to the edges. Silver gelatin photographs, some of which appear to be collodion prints. Photos are usually clear and distinct and measure on average 20cm by 13.5cm, each of which is captioned on the mount. First photo in the album shows some glue marks at the margin areas, otherwise the photographs are in very good or better condition. Front board slightly discoloured in one spot.  Overall very good. 

A series of 32 mostly silver gelatin photos mounted on card stock, one per mount, all of which are captioned in ink, chronicling the damage inflicted mostly by the “Boer bitter-enders” to the rail and bridge infrastructure of South Africa in an attempt to slow down the British Army during the "guerilla phase" of the war.  The majority of the photos show damaged or destroyed bridges, tunnels and railway lines, trains and stations as well as repair work.  Locations throughout Eastern Transvaal are depicted including Roodeval Station, Laing’s Nek Tunnel, Ingogo Bridge, other Natal locations, Kaapmuiden, Cape Colony and more. (As one photo is rubber stamped Imperial Military Railways Photographic Department on the verso, along with a hand-written caption, we presume that all photographs are from the Imperial Military Railways Photographic Department, and that the caption on the mount mirrors or is similar to the presumed handwritten one on the verso of each photograph).