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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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Col. Henry Somerset
College House
College House, completed and in use by 1914, was the first Men’s Residence at Rhodes University.
Colonel John Graham
Commissary General Jacob de Mist
Conference between Col. Hare and Sandilli (sic)
Departure from St. Paul's Cathedral
Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee celebration 1897.
Dick King
Dick King 's Monument in Duban
Didima (Kat Berg Mountain) from Post Retief
Dingaan entertaining Retief to a War Dance before the Massacre
Image taken from the 1916 silent film ‘De Voortrekkers’, directed by Howard Shaw, which was a dramatization of the Great Trek and it’s aftermath.
Double Drift Fort and Fish River
Completed in 1837, the fort at Double Drift protected the important route from Grahamstown to Fort Willshire and the interior.
Dragoon Guards
Troops participating in the celebration of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee 1897.
Drostdy Arch from Drostdy
View of ten uniformed men in the arched gateway to the Drostdy, with the Drostdy itself visible behind them.
Drostdy building back view
Drostdy building from a distance
Drostdy barracks circa 1835 - 1842.
Drostdy building near view
Drostdy building with troops on parade
Durban (?)
Durban harbour
East London
East London (?)
Ensign Hunt's Grave at Kaffir Drift
Entrance to Durban harbour
Entrance to East London
Entrance to East London Harbour on the Buffalo River.
Entrance to Fort Murray
As a result of the annexation of the Province of Queen Adelaide in 1835, Governor D’Urban ordered the building of a series of new forts between the Keiskamma and Kei Rivers, Fort Murray being among them.,View showing one of two entrances (probably north east) and loopholes in wall.