THE OLD TRANSVAAL. 1834-1899. AP Cartwright & N Cowan
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1978. Hard cover. 154 pages. Very good condition. Short inscription on front. Rust spots in front and back. Under 1kg.
Wonderful collection of historic photographs of the old South African Republic (Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek) and its people put together by Mr Nat Cowan, Custodian of the Bensusan Museum of Photography in Johannesburg.
Mr Cowan notes that the art of photography and the very young republic established by the Voortrekkers beyond the Vaal, were both born at approximately the same time, 1839. This led him to a search for the first photographs ever taken in the new country. He found what he was looking for in the work of some of the itinerant photographers who made their way from the Cape to "the interior" in the 19th century. Here are these early pictures, many of them published for the first time.