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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, New York : Underwood & Underwood, c1900. — historic photograph
South African Light Horse, coming down Adderly St., to entrain for the front, Cape Town, New York : Underwood & Underwood, c1900.. 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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A window into the past: South African Light Horse, coming down Adderly St., to entrain for the front, Cape Town, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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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, Cape Town's main commercial thoroughfare, is the setting here as a body of South African Light Horse rides down it to board trains bound for the front. The Light Horse was a volunteer mounted regiment raised during the Second Anglo-Boer War, which began in October 1899, and the card was issued by the New York firm Underwood & Underwood around 1900. Like all stereographs, it holds two nearly identical photographs side by side, so a viewer using a stereoscope sees the horses and street with a depth a single print cannot give.

Created / publishedNew York : Underwood & Underwood, c1900.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
GenrePhotographic prints 1900.Stereographs 1900.
NotesD9426 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood.
SubjectsSouth Africa.--Army.--Light Horse Regiment. Streets--South Africa--Cape Town--1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,287 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-193227

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