Gold Fields : Jameson Raid (1895-1896)

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Title: Gold Fields : Jameson Raid (1895-1896)
Alternative Title: Jameson’s Raid, 1895–1896 — Photograph Collection
Description: The Jameson’s Raid, 1895–1896 — Photograph Collection comprises photographs relating to events surrounding the Jameson Raid, a late nineteenth-century military expedition in southern Africa. The raid occurred between 29 December 1895 and 2 January 1896 and was led by Dr Leander Starr Jameson, who entered the South African Republic (Transvaal) with a force drawn from British colonial territories. The expedition was intended to support an anticipated uprising by British expatriate residents (Uitlanders) against the government of President Paul Kruger. The uprising did not take place, and Jameson and his men were captured by Boer commandos near Doornkop.

The photographs provide visual documentation of people, places, and circumstances associated with the raid and its aftermath, and form part of the historical record of political and military tensions in southern Africa during the period preceding the South African (Anglo-Boer) War of 1899–1902. The collection is owned by Goldfields and is held by the Cory Library for Humanities Research, Rhodes University.
Date Issued: 1895/1896
Provenance: Godfields Collection
Type: Collection; Still Image
Genre: Photographs
Subject: See all item sets with this value Jameson's Raid, 1895-1896; Transvaal (South Africa) — History — 19th century — Photographs; Jameson, Leander Starr, 1853-1917 — Photographs; Boer Forces — Transvaal — Photographs; Uitlanders — South Africa — History — Photographs; Boer Republics — Military campaigns — Photographs; British South Africa Company — Military operations — Photographs; Gold mining industry — Transvaal — History — Photographs; Boer and British relations — Politics and diplomacy — 1890-1900 — Photographs; Doornkop (South Africa) — Photographs
Temporal Coverage: 1895–1896
Format: image/jpeg
Medium: Photographic prints
Extent: Multiple photographic items
Spatial Coverage: Transvaal (South Africa); Zuid-Afrikaansche Republic

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Photograph entitled "Officers of the Reform Committee"

Photograph entitled "Officers of the Reform Committee" showing a large group of people in front of the offices of Charles Leonard, Attorney at Law, who was the leaders of the Uitlanders. Below the photograph are the words "Consolidated Gold Fields".
Photograph entitled "Officers, Australian"

Photograph entitled "Officers, Australian" showing a group of Australian officers, some of whom are on horseback
Photograph entitled "Parade"

Photograph entitled "Parade" showing a large group of men, many armed with rifles, lined up to march on a large field beside some buildings.
Photograph entitled "Police"

Photograph entitled "Police" showing a group of policemen marching down a street. They are in plain clothes and are wearing white bands printed with the word "Police" around their left arms.
Photograph entitled "Pretoria"

Photograph entitled "Pretoria" showing a group of men, mostly armed, and some on horseback gathering a Pretoria street in front of the Civiele Commissaris, Pretoria. There are a few women in the foreground.
Photograph entitled "Pretoria"

Photograph entitled "Pretoria" showing a group of men, some armed and some on horseback, on a Pretoria street.
Photograph entitled "Raadzaal, Pretoria"

Photograph entitled "Raadzaal, Pretoria" showing several people and a wagon in the road in front of the Raadzaal in Pretoria.
Photograph entitled "Rand Club, Johannesburg: Sir Jacobus de Wet addressing the crowd"

Photograph entitled "Rand Club, Johannesburg: Sir Jacobus de Wet addressing the crowd" showing a large group of people in front of, and on the balcony of, the Rand Club in Johannesburg
Photograph entitled "Rebel camp"

Photograph entitled "Rebel camp" showing a group of men marching across an open field.
Photograph entitled "Rebel camp"

Photograph entitled "Rebel camp" showing a group of armed men in the rebel camp.
Photograph entitled "Rebel Outpost"

Photograph entitled "Rebel Outpost" showing a group of men at the Rebel Outpost
Photograph entitled "Rebel outpost"

Photograph entitled "Rebel outpost" showing a number of men behind a makeshift wall with several rifles leaning against it.
Photograph entitled "Rebel: Maxim"

Photograph entitled "Rebel: Maxim" showing two men (presumably two of the rebels) preparing to fire a Maxim gun, a recoil-operated machine gun
Photograph entitled "Roll call"

Photograph entitled "Roll call" showing a group of armed men in a field lining up for roll call.
Photograph entitled "Scotch Brigade"

Photograph entitled "Scotch Brigade" showing a large group congregating in front of the Rosenberg buildings in Johannesburg.
Photograph entitled "The Offices of the Reform Committee"

Photograph entitled "The Offices of the Reform Committee" showing a large group of people in front of the offices of Charles Leonard, Attorney at Law, who was the leaders of the Uitlanders.
Photograph entitled "Troop followers - Village Main Reef Camp"

Photograph entitled "Troop followers - Village Main Reef Camp" showing a group of men in a mining camp containing tents and a wagon.
Photograph entitled "View from Ecksteins"

Photograph entitled "View from Ecksteins" showing a view of the offices of Charles Leonard, Attorney at Law, who was the leaders of the Uitlanders.
Photograph entitled "Village Main Reef Camp"

Photograph entitled "Village Main Reef Camp" showing a group of men in a mining camp containing tents.
Photograph entitled "Volunteers going out to camp"

Photograph entitled "Volunteers going out to camp" showing a large group of men marching down a street (presumably men who were volunteering to fight).
Photograph entitled "Waiting for the worst news"

Photograph entitled "Waiting for the worst news" showing a large group of people in front of the offices of Charles Leonard, Attorney at Law (leader of the Johannesburg Uitlanders in December 1895).
Photograph entitled "Women and children flee in cattle trucks"

Photograph entitled "Women and children flee in cattle trucks" showing a number of women and children on a train ; there are three men in the foreground.
Photograph entitled "Wounded volunteer"

Photograph entitled "Wounded volunteer" showing a group of men carrying a man on a stretcher
Photograph of Church Square, Pretoria

Photograph of a group of men on horseback in Church Square, Pretoria
Photograph titled "5 of Jameson's guns"

Photograph titled "5 of Jameson's guns" showing two men with five of Dr Jameson's machine guns in a tent. Also written on the photograph is "Guns delivered up by Johannesburg. In Fort, Pretoria".