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South African Light Horse, coming down Adderly St., to entrain for the front, Cape Town – Vintage Print

South African Light Horse, coming down Adderly St., to entrain for the front, Cape Town, c1900 Feb. 26. — historic photograph
South African Light Horse, coming down Adderly St., to entrain for the front, Cape Town, c1900 Feb. 26.. Historic photograph from the Horses collection.

(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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South African Light Horse, coming down Adderly St., to entrain for the front, Cape Town comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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South African Light Horse, coming down Adderly St., to entrain for the front, Cape Town

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Adderley Street, one of Cape Town's main thoroughfares, is the setting here as a column of South African Light Horse troopers rides toward the railway to board trains for the front. The record dates the scene to February 26, 1900, during the South African War, when the Cape ports and rail lines were central to moving British forces north. Underwood & Underwood issued the view as a stereograph, a pair of nearly identical photographs meant to be seen together through a stereoscope, a popular parlor entertainment that brought distant conflicts into middle-class homes.

Created / publishedc1900 Feb. 26.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
GenrePhotographic prints 1900.Stereographs 1900.
NotesCopyright by Underwood & Underwood. Exhibited: Churchill and the Great Republic, Library of Congress, 2004.
SubjectsSouth Africa.--Army.--Imperial Light Horse Regiment--1900. Cavalry--South Africa--Cape Town--1900. South African War, 1899-1902--Campaigns & battles.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 751 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-163888

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