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Railway Travel in South Africa, c1900?. Creator: Unknown.

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Railway Travel in South Africa, c1900?. 'There are usually not many incidents to relieve the monotony of railway travel in long journeys through South Africa, except at one or two places en route to Bulawayo or Johannesburg. As in England urchins follow coaches and carriages along country roads, throwing "cartwheels" and clamouring for coppers, so in South Africa, at various points on the railway, several swarthy little natives, clad in rags, or sometimes with no clothes on at all, wait and shout for backsheesh or scraps of food thrown out by passengers, who take pleasure in witnessing the excited scramble which inevitably takes place'. From a photograph by D. Edwards.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

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HRM25A46_167

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Droits gérés

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58,1Mo (7,3Mo) / 42,0cm x 34,6cm / 4960 x 4091 (300dpi)

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travel transport transportation Europe Africa female Caucasian women woman people black male boy boys child children girl girls man men South Africa railways laughing country naked nude white guy continent European railway African passengers passenger South African poor poverty location Victorian collection century Colonial laughter begging travellers traveller concept controversy B&W beggar beggars nudity europeans archive africans ripped controversial torn nakedness RAGGED racism tattered 19th century black & white black and white B W 1900s 20th century nineteenth century racist colonialism imperialism Unknown The National Archives Heritage Art 19th-century implied racism racial stereotype The National Archives UK TNA