Zimbabwe and South Africa, 1911-1912

1911. Hardcover. Fair. Worn cloth-covered album. Oblong 22 cm. Contains 58 brown-tint photos which are generally about 7 x 9 cm. The photos appear to be amateur snapshots. Almost all are identified on strips of paper pasted in the margins. Six leaves (half) appear to have been removed from this album. Some minor rubbing, but all photos generally clear with good detail. Seventeen photos show the area around the grave of Cecil Rhodes at Matopos (including views of the dramatic huge boulders). The remaining photos show scenes in and around Germiston, Grahamstown, Maritzburg, Pretoria, Johannesburg, and Durban. The album of a white woman. Most of the people (truncated) in the photos are white women. There are a scenes at a YWCA beach picnic in Durban and of the Durban YWCA under construction. (Inventory #: 60061)