An album of 40 half plate photos with written descriptions - being a record of a holiday tour, folio half leather with matching brown boards titled in gilt on upper cover, the leather is scuffed and worn on the spine and the corners, the photographs are in very good condition.
Beginning with a photo of the mail vessel R.M.S.Scot, views in Pretoria including Boer wagons outspanned by the church, De Beers Diamond Mines showing the workers compound, diamond sorting shed, a day's results £60,000 of diamonds, a photo of the Jagersfontein Diamond - then the largest in the world, a view of Queenstown; Hove's Drift, a view of Grahamstown; Coolies at work amongst the Sugar Cane; view of the Market Square Pietermaritzburg, Port Elizabeth – Zwartkop.
- Overall Condition: Very Good
- Size: Folio (320 x 260 mm)
- Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
- Contact Person: Paul Mills
- Country: South Africa
- Email: [email protected]
- Telephone: 021 794 0600
- Preferred Payment Methods: Visa & Mastercard via PayGate secure links and Bank transfers.
- Trade Associations: ABA - ILAB, SABDA
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