[The Harbor of East London, South Africa - Called Buffalo Harbor - Buffalo River] – Vintage Wall Art
![[The Harbor of East London, South Africa - Called Buffalo Harbor - Buffalo River], 1898 — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/87/871c9f795ff7-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 [The Harbor of East London, South Africa - Called Buffalo Harbor - Buffalo River]. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The river mouth in this view was known to early British settlers as Buffalo Harbor, a name that predates the town's later title of East London. The harbor sits where the Buffalo River meets the Indian Ocean, and its shifting sandbar made entry difficult for ships, which shaped how the port grew. Benjamin S. Agnew's 1898 photoprint, numbered 26, shows the waterfront at the close of the nineteenth century, when the port handled wool and goods from the surrounding Eastern Cape. The caption card is unverified, so its details should be read with that in mind.
| Created / published | 1898 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | Photoprint by Benjamin S. Agnew. No. 26. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Africa--South Africa--East London--1898; Geogr.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,232 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-151887 |
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