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Sir George Cory Lantern Slide Collection

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Title: Sir George Cory Lantern Slide Collection
Alternative Title: George Cory Lantern Slides
Creator: Cory, George
Description: The George Cory Magic Lantern Slide collection is part of Sir George Cory’s large and varied research collection that he donated to Rhodes University Library. Sir George Cory (one of the four founding fathers of Rhodes University) had these slides made to accompany his public lectures, on Eastern Cape history and the 1820 Settlers. There are 270 lantern glass slides altogether, and some of the places included are Grahamstown, Graaff Reinet, Port Elizabeth, Bathurst, and Port Alfred, as well as many of the frontier forts. The slides illustrate life in the early days of the Eastern Cape.
Language: English
Type: Collection
Genre: Image albums

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Boma Pass plaque
The wording on the stone is as follows – Boma Pass Road constructed December 1853 by order of His Excellency Lt. Gen. the Hon. Sir Geo. Cathcart KCB Governor, by the Royal Engineer Department. The working party consisted of Detachments of the 6th Royal Regt. and 60th Royal Rifles under the direction of Lieut. HR Siborne, Royal Engineers.
Boma Pass road
Botha's Post
Botha's Post and Tower
Botha's Post Fort (entrance)
Botha's Post Fort from distance
Botha's Post Fort stables
Botha's Post stables (?) or Fort Peddie
Bridge near Alice
British troops in action in action somewhere in Kaffir Land (sic)
Presumably British Kaffraria.
Buffalo River
Burns Hill Mission
Children and two men appear in the middleground, with chapel and huts in the background.
Burns Hill Mission from Fort Cox hill
Burns Hill Mission House
Bushman & European skeletons
Bushmen cave near Coldspring
Bushy country around Fort Wiltshire (sic)
Fort Willshire was built by the Royal Engineers under Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Willshire of the 38th Regiment, on the orders of Lord Charles Somerset, in 1819.
Bushy country around Fort Wiltshire (sic)
Fort Willshire was built by the Royal Engineers under Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Willshire of the 38th Regiment, on the orders of Lord Charles Somerset, in 1819.
Cape Corp Camp, Grahamstown
Cape of Good Hope Mounted Troops
Troops participating in the celebration of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee 1897.
Cape St Blaize
Cathcart
Cattle at Eland’s Post/Seymour
Charge on the Gwanga, 8 April 1846
Chief Kama's old house with Middle Drift village in distance