National Army Museum

British Field Telegrapher sending news of victory at Klip Drift (Feb. 12th) - South Africa

photograph, stereoscopic, photograph

Accession Number

NAM.1998-01-135-51

Description

Stereoscopic card captioned: British Field Telegrapher sending news of victory at Klip Drift (Feb. 12th) - South Africa. From a box of 89 stereoscopic cards entitled, ‘South African War through the Stereoscope Pt 2 Vol 1’. Published by Underwood and Underwood and produced by Works and Sun Sculpture Studios, 1900 (c). Caption is translated in French, German, Spanish, Russian on the back of the card. Associated with the Boer War (1899-1902).

Campaigns

Boer War (1899-1902)

Units

British Army

People

Underwood and Underwood

Works and Sun Sculpture Studios

Inscriptions

Inscribed on the front of the card: ‘British Field Telegrapher sending news of victory at Klip Drift (Feb. 12th)-South Africa. / Copyright 1900 by Underwood & Underwood.’ Inscribed to the left of the card: ‘Underwood & Underwood, Publishers / New York. London. Toronto-Canada. Ottawa-Kansas.’ Inscribed to the right of the card: ‘Works and SUN SCULPTURE TRADE MARK Studios / Arlington. R. J. Littleton. R. H. Washington. D. C.’

Associated collection