Man building railway planned by Cecil Rhodes near Broken Hill, Rhodesia – Vintage Photo Print
![Man building railway planned by Cecil Rhodes near Broken Hill, Rhodesia, [between 1890 and 1923] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/06/06180c830b52-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Man building railway planned by Cecil Rhodes near Broken Hill, Rhodesia. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Man building railway planned by Cecil Rhodes near Broken Hill, Rhodesia
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A lone man at work on the line near Broken Hill, in Rhodesia, shows the railway that Cecil Rhodes planned to push north through the territory that bears his name. Rhodes envisioned a route from the Cape to Cairo, and track laid through what is now Zambia depended largely on African laborers working under European supervision, often in harsh conditions. Broken Hill took its name from the lead and zinc ore found there, and the town grew into a stop on the route and a mining center. The photograph, dated somewhere between 1890 and 1923, records the manual labor behind imperial ambitions that were rarely shown from the workers' side.
| Created / published | [between 1890 and 1923] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1890-1930. |
| Notes | Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. LOT subdivision subject: Uganda. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress). |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,164 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-119117 |
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