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(SOUTH AFRICA--NATAL & DURBAN) A rare album with approximately 59 photographs of the then British colony and home to the Zulu people.
The rare imagery in this album centers largely around the province of Natal and the city Durban. This region is the home of the Zulu people. Natal was a British colony until 1910 when it was combined with other colonies to form the Union of South Africa. The images include Natal's numerous natural and manmade wonders, including waterfalls, fording the Tugela River, mountain ranges, railroads, views of Durban, Majuba, a market in Johannesburg, the Vaal River (towards gold fields), and a tobacco garden. Figural images include striking portraits of Zulus, including two young men dressed in uniform, a Zulu band, and women. Albumen (31), silver (25), and printing-out paper (3) prints, the images measuring 6x8 inches (15.2x20.3 cm.), and the reverse, mounted recto/verso, some with captions in the negative and/or with captions, in ink, on the mounts. Oblong 4to, 1/2 leather over cloth, worn; partially disbound; with a Durban cigar store hand stamp on the front free endpaper. Circa 1901
