South Africa Souvenir Album
name: label: Photographer
content: Mittlebrook, J.E.
place: label: Place
content: Matoppo Hills (South Africa)
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content: Pietermaritzburg (South Africa)
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content: Buluwayo (South Africa)
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content: Johannesburg (South Africa)
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content: Pretoria (South Africa)
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content: Zambezi River
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content: Quilimane (South Africa)
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content: CMP Company's Carisbrook Castle
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content: Cape Town (South Africa)
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content: Barberton Proper (South Africa)
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content: Queen's River (South Africa)
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content: Chinde (South Africa)
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content: Beira (South Africa)
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content: South Africa
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content: Delaoa Bay (South Africa)
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content: Inhambane (South Africa)
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content: Grahamstown (South Africa)
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content: Port Elizabeth (South Africa)
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content: Durban (South Africa)
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content: East London (South Africa)
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content: Africa
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content: Zambezi River -- Photographs
topic: label: Topic
content: Chief Khama of the Batlapina (South Africa)
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content: USS Company's Briton
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content: Zulu (African people)
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content: Rickshaws
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content: Gold mines and mining
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content: Steamboats
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content: Colonists
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content: Indigenous peoples
creator: label: Photographer
content: Mittlebrook, J.E.
abstract: label: Summary
content: Fifty photographs taken by J.E. Mittlebrook and published by D'Urban and Kimberley in 1898 in an album entitled, South African Souvenir.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 50 Platinum prints (1 album, black & white, 20 x 26 cm)
label: Extent
content: 50 Photographic prints (dupe prints (1 v.), black & white, 8 x 10 in.)
label: Extent
content: 50 Photographic prints (black & white, 4 x 5 in.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1898
container: label: Container
content: Item 50
label: Container
content: Box 1
label: Container
content: Volume 1
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Purchased, 1992. Conserved through a preservation grant funded by the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee, 2006.

The album was the second edition.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1992-007
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Platinum prints
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content: Photographic prints
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content: Black-and-white photographs
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Images indexed by negative number. The fifty-two platinotypes are arranged by the photographer following the itinerary of a route from Capetown up the eastern coast of South Africa, through Port Elizabeth, Grahamstown, and East London, to Durban, and Pietermaritzburg, and provide views of the churches, parks, harbors, and main streets of these cities. Also included is a portrait of a Zulu boy, wearing animal horns on his head, with his rickshaw. Continuing up the coast into what is now Mozambique, Middlebrook photographs Delagoa Bay, and the towns of Inhambane, Beira, Chinde, at the mouth of the Zambezi River, and Quelimane. As he crosses west into the Matoppo Hills towards Bulawayo, he records "Mr. Rhodes' Farm Buildings," with a photo of "C.J.R."--Cecil Rhodes--in the entrance of one of his conical "huts". Shots of Kimberley include a bird's eye view of the city from the De Beers Floors, and the Kimberley Sanitorium built by Rhodes. In Johannesburg, Middlebrook records a bird's eye view of the city, the imposing new post office, Commissioner and Pritchard Streets, Joubert Park, the vast produce market, and processing buildings of the Randt Gold Mining Companies. There are also views of Pretoria--including a scene of "Naachtmaal," when Boer farmers and families come to town for church services, and camp out in the town square--and the hills near Barberton, where Sheba G.M. Company mines quartz. Seven of the photographs portray native people, such as Chief Khama of the Batlapins, well-known for his friendship with Livingstone; Zulu men wearing head gear of rickshaw pullers in Durban; Zulu families in front of their homes in Natal, Zululand; an Amaxosa family in Cape Colony (Cape of Good Hope); a Matabele cane seller; a woman from Swaziland in native garb; and an east coast man, known as a Zanzibaree. The final two photographs are steamships: U[nion] S[steam] S[hip] Company's "Briton"; and C[astle] M[ail] P[ackets] Company's "Carisbrook Castle."
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content: Photographic prints
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content: Black-and-white photographs