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Photo, Print, Drawing Pretoria Station, South Africa, 1893. Pretoria Stasie, Suid-Afrika, 1893

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Title

  • Pretoria Station, South Africa, 1893.

Other Title

  • Pretoria Stasie, Suid-Afrika, 1893

Summary

  • This photograph shows the arrival of the first train at Pretoria Station, Pretoria, South Africa, in 1893. Railroad construction in South Africa was spurred by economic development associated with the gold mining industry, following the discovery of gold near present-day Johannesburg in 1886. Pretoria, at the time the capital of the South African Republic, was connected by rail to Cape Town in 1893, and to Durban and Lourenço Marques (in the then-Portuguese colony of Mozambique) in 1895. The photograph is from the Van der Waal Collection at the Department of Library Services at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. The Van der Waal Collection forms part of an archive of South African architecture assembled by architectural historian Dr. Gerhard-Mark van der Waal.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1893.

Headings

  • -  South Africa--Gauteng--Pretoria
  • -  1893
  • -  Railroad stations
  • -  Railroads
  • -  Train depots

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: Printed photograph, black and white.
  • -  Original resource at: University of Pretoria Library.
  • -  Content in Afrikaans.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Source Collection

  • Van der Waal Collection

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021669884

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • image

Additional Metadata Formats

IIIF Presentation Manifest

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Chicago citation style:

Pretoria Station, South Africa. Gauteng Pretoria South Africa, 1893. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021669884/.

APA citation style:

(1893) Pretoria Station, South Africa. Gauteng Pretoria South Africa, 1893. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021669884/.

MLA citation style:

Pretoria Station, South Africa. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021669884/>.