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Slide set: Kaffirs, Boers, and Britons in South Africa: or, Jameson's dash to the Transvaal (lecture: Walter Tyler, 60 slides, 1896)

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Types of Native Races

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Kaffir Chief

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Slide 35

Cutting Telegraph Wires

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Fighting the Boers

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First Meeting with the Boers

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Charge of the Three Hundred

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Troopers and Maxim Gun

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State Artillery coming up by Train

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The Surrender

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Battle Field at Doornkop

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Lost Battles -- Majuba Hill, Laing's Neck

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Delagoa Bay

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Number of slides

Walter Tyler, England

Other related organisations

in stock of E.G. Wood, , dates unknown (item ref. 37011-37070)

in stock of Riley Brothers, 1896-1914 (item ref. 896)

in stock of Wrench & Son, 1898

in stock of J. Lizars, 1909 (item ref. 719)

in stock of Walter Tyler, 1909 (item ref. 190d)

Main type of image

drawing / painting / print

Main usage of set

lecture

Date of first manufacture

1896

Source of slide images

Illustrated London News (1842-2003)

Reading or song

Kaffirs, Boers and Britons in South Africa: a story of British enterprise in the Dark Continent (London: Walter Tyler, 1896)

Related slide set

contained in [Lecture on colonial South Africa] (lecture: privately assembled, 24 slides, n.d.)

People involved in slide production

FORESTIER, Amédée (1854-1930) – creator of source image(s), slide 35

People appearing in slides

JAMESON, Dr L.S. (1853-1917) – slides 40, 46

Notes

The images are credited in the reading to the Illustrated London News, including 'sketches taken at the scenes of actions'. The 'Jameson Raid' took place between 29 December 1895 and 2 January 1896.

Collections

9 slides known to exist in private collection

3 slides in EYE Film Institute Netherlands

Subject keywords

South Africa
imperialism – British Empire
JAMESON, Dr L.S. (1853-1917)

Lucerna ID 3001166

Record created by Richard Crangle and Sarah Dellmann. Last updated 30 April 2024

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