- Title
- Kaffir fare at Fort Wiltshire (sic)
- Subject
- Fort Willshire -- Alice (South Africa) -- Pictorial works
- Type
- Image
- Identifier
- vital:14116
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018040
- Identifier
- MS 10 542
- Identifier
- CD 55
- Description
- Fort Willshire was built by the Royal Engineers under Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Willshire of the 38th Regiment, on the orders of Lord Charles Somerset, in 1819.
- Description
- From 1824 – 1830 weekly trade fairs were held at the Fort, where licensed British Settlers could trade in ivory, hides etc with Xhosa. At first cattle could not be traded, and trade in fire-arms and liquor was forbidden.
- Format
- jpg
- Format
- Original Glass slide (4 cm x 6 cm) held at Cory Library, Rhodes University
- Contributor
- George Edward Cory, Sir (1862-1935)
- Contributor
- Greaves, Duncan (photographer)
- Publisher
- Rhodes University
- Relation
- Sir George Cory's Glass Lantern Slide Collection
- Rights
- CC BY-NC-SA : Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
- Rights
- © Rhodes University. In order to obtain a licence for the use of any of the images, apply to Cory Library at cory@ru.ac.za.
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