Reference code
ZA UCT BC_S_BCS618
Title
South African War Concentration Camp Photograph Album
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Fonds
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Single item/Small Collection
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Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Donated by Martin Plaut, 2015.
Scope and content
Photographs of inmates, medical personnel and servants in various refugee concentration camps during and shortly after the South African War. Some photographs are of inmates of the Tweespruit refugee camp, and some include Captain Panton, who seems to have run the camp.
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Fragile condition
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Note
The album has been examined by Dr Elizabeth van Heyningen, an authority on the concentration camps, and her notes about it are on the administrative file. The provenance remains unclear but it can be surmised that either the photographs had a philanthropic (possibly Quaker) connection with someone travelling around the country, or were connected with Captain Panton, who may have been running the Tweespruit refugee camp for people who had no farm to return to after the war.