Geographical region north of South Africa

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Transvaal, South Africa: Bray's Golden Quarry on Sheba Reef. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris.

Transvaal, South Africa: part of the town of Heidelberg. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris.

A member of the Royal Scots Fusiliers playing the bagpipes in a camp in the Zulu War; a Zulu man is crouching down with his hands over his ears. Wood engraving by C.Roberts after Melton Prior, 1879.

Sir Leander Jameson ill in bed being visited by Dr. Punch; representing Jameson's involvement with the disastrous Transvaal campaign which heralded the Boer War. Wood engraving after Sir E.L. Sambourne, 1896.

South Africa: a group of Europeans eating a meal beside their wagon in the Transvaal. Photograph by Dudley Kidd.

Mineral extraction: using water to expose gold-bearing rock at the Transvaal gold fields. Wood engraving, 1889.

The Congress of Berlin: Disraeli as a tooth-drawer, assisted by Queen Victoria, operates on Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire, surrounded by political figures from France, Germany etc. Coloured lithograph by J.J. van Brederode after Jan Steen, 1878.

Transvaal, South Africa: a gold mining valley occupied by Union Company and Pioneer United Company, with Barberton in the distance. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris.

N. Transvaal, S. Africa: woman grinding tobacco. Photograph by Alfred M. Duggan-Cronin.

Science and empire : East Coast fever in Rhodesia and the Transvaal / Paul F. Cranefield.

South Africa: an African woman breastfeeding her baby. Photograph by Alfred M. Duggan-Cronin.

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Transvaal region

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The Congress of Berlin: Disraeli as a tooth-drawer, assisted by Queen Victoria, operates on Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire, surrounded by political figures from France, Germany etc. Coloured lithograph by J.J. van Brederode after Jan Steen, 1878.

You get as much out of urine as you put into it, Bili-Labstix : just add blood! Ames/BMI Blood Analyser.

N. Transvaal, S. Africa: woman grinding tobacco. Photograph by Alfred M. Duggan-Cronin.

Science and empire : East Coast fever in Rhodesia and the Transvaal / Paul F. Cranefield.

South Africa: an African woman breastfeeding her baby. Photograph by Alfred M. Duggan-Cronin.

Transvaal region

Images from the collections

Images referencing Transvaal region

Works from the collections

The Congress of Berlin: Disraeli as a tooth-drawer, assisted by Queen Victoria, operates on Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire, surrounded by political figures from France, Germany etc. Coloured lithograph by J.J. van Brederode after Jan Steen, 1878.

You get as much out of urine as you put into it, Bili-Labstix : just add blood! Ames/BMI Blood Analyser.

N. Transvaal, S. Africa: woman grinding tobacco. Photograph by Alfred M. Duggan-Cronin.

Science and empire : East Coast fever in Rhodesia and the Transvaal / Paul F. Cranefield.

South Africa: an African woman breastfeeding her baby. Photograph by Alfred M. Duggan-Cronin.

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