Cory Library and Historical Archives

Items

• Sawyes cyanide works
• Ship in Table Bay
• Soldiers assembling for breakfast
• Soldiers cleaning their guns
• Soldiers of Herbert's Column posing with a Twelve Pounder gun
  Glass negative : View of soldiers of Herbert's Column posing with a Twelve Pounder gun.
• Soldiers relaxing on a field
• Soldiers sitting around a pot, Jeppestown, Johannesburg
• South of Gow Corporation Coal Mine
• Sp. W S Smith
• Spion Kop : area of operations Jan 17th to 26th 1900
  Spion Kop : area of operations Jan 17th to 26th 1900.
• Taking the heavy naval guns across the Vet River - Lord Roberts' advance on Pretoria
• The Edgar Demonstration
  In December 1898 Transvaal police shot an Uitlander called Tom Edgar. The officer responsible said that it was in self-defence, but the Uitlander community reacted as if it was a political incident. This made the franchise issue an important factor in the outbreak of the war because political tension between Boers and British subjects in the Transvaal became worse. The death of Tom Edgar, an Uitlander working in the Transvaal, in 1898, signalled another definite lurch towards war. Edgar was shot by Zarps (a colloquialism for the South African police) after a drunken brawl, in seemingly cold blood (at least this was how it was portrayed at the time, although evidence suggests that he was trying to attack the policemen at the time of death). This prompted a demonstration by some five thousand Uitlanders to assert their rights as British subjects after having been treated "like Helots", and then with their leaders arrested, launched another demonstration.
• The Edgar Demonstration
  In December 1898 Transvaal police shot an Uitlander called Tom Edgar. The officer responsible said that it was in self-defence, but the Uitlander community reacted as if it was a political incident. This made the franchise issue an important factor in the outbreak of the war because political tension between Boers and British subjects in the Transvaal became worse. The death of Tom Edgar, an Uitlander working in the Transvaal, in 1898, signalled another definite lurch towards war. Edgar was shot by Zarps (a colloquialism for the South African police) after a drunken brawl, in seemingly cold blood (at least this was how it was portrayed at the time, although evidence suggests that he was trying to attack the policemen at the time of death). This prompted a demonstration by some five thousand Uitlanders to assert their rights as British subjects after having been treated "like Helots", and then with their leaders arrested, launched another demonstration.
• The Market Square - Heidelberg
• Thi Gradigi
• Town Guard shooting match with James Marburg, Easter 1900
  Glass negative : View of the Town Guard shooting match with James Marburg, Easter 1900.
• Traction machine
• Transkei,Imperial map of the Cape Colony
  This map forms part of the Imperial map of the Cape Colony.,"South Africa having never been properly surveyed, this map must necessarily contain many inaccuracies." The map shows main roads, branch roads, farm roads, rivers, hills, pans, railways, telegraph lines, farm names, farm boundaries, divisional boundaries, outspans and homesteads in the Transkei region.Compiled and lithographed by Mapping Section, F.I.D., Cape Town, under the superintendence of P.H. du P. Casgrain from farm surveys and all other available information.
• Transport teams and oxen watering in the Velch River - on the march to Pretoria
• Trekking from Vaalkop
• Vaal River
• View of the Transport Camp, Cradock, 1900
  Glass negative : View of the Transport Camp, Cradock, 1900, showing tents and animals.
• Wagon Hill, from Manchester Hill (British), lower hill in distance held by Boers, siege of Ladysmith
• Wagon stuck in mud
• War soldier post card to Mr. T.T. Robertson (back)