The Town Hall, struck by a Boer Shell during the Siege, Ladysmith, South Africa
Underwood & Underwood
Category
Photographs
Date
1890 - 1910
Materials
Card
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520673.51
Summary
An albumen print stereograph depicting The Town Hall, struck by a Boer Shell during the Siege, Ladysmith, South Africa. The print is mounted on stiff, curved, grey card with rounded corners. The images have arched tops and square bottoms. Recto: printed in black ink on the right lower margin: "The Town Hall, struck by a Boer Shell during the Siege, Ladysmith, South Africa" Copyright 1901 by Underwood & Underwood. Also embossed with the number 86. In the left hand margin printed in italic print in black ink Underwood & Underwood Publishers New York, London, Toronto- Canada, Ottawa- Kansas In the right hand margin: Works and Studios Arlington N.J. Littleton N.H. Washington D.C. Verso printed in black ink: The Town Hall, struck by a Boer Shell during the Siege, Ladysmith, South Africa written in English, French, German, Spanish, Swedish and Russian.
Provenance
Part of the Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986.
Makers and roles
Underwood & Underwood, photographic studio