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Visitors Map of Durban
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Wide Tar-paved Streets
Electric Street Lightning
Town Hall = seating capacity 3,000
Unique Tramway System, 35 miles of Track
Up-to-date ‘Phone Service’
(and a page full of this kind of descriptions).
A year or two ago, a USENET friend whom I never personally met, sent me two books which was bought by his Grandmother (or grandmothers aunt or something to this effect) more than a 100 years ago, when she was on a ship from the Netherlands to Indonesia, and stopped over in Durban, South Africa. ‘Empire Cinema, admission 6d, 1/, and 1/6. The Photographic Specialists was Lennon Limited’
Included is also a fold-open map of the Durban of those years.
He also gave me one for Cape Town, being printed in 1914. The School of Art, Cape town’s fees was
Painting £1 *per quarter* for 1 class per week
£1.10 for 2 classes per week and £3 for 3 classes per week. Teachers under the Department at half fee.
This is single extractions from lots of it with photos.
Right now it get stored in my safe.
I consider making a framed collage of photos photographed from it.
The reason for this writing is that when opening them now, it was as if the pages discolored a bit.
These books are in a, as new condition. When I asked about it, I’ve been told that is was in other books. Now, it is in my safe where it is dark, but how am I going to prevent discoloring of the ink? Will the ink fade if kept under normal indoor light?
Maybe it is valuable because there is lots of photos from those years in it.
Maybe I should keep it out of sharp light, or would light not be a factor? What kind of ink was used those years?
On the first page, somebody wrote a name and date – 1916, (seemingly ballpoint?) and that is as if written yesterday.
Dave
******************
Wide Tar-paved Streets
Electric Street Lightning
Town Hall = seating capacity 3,000
Unique Tramway System, 35 miles of Track
Up-to-date ‘Phone Service’
(and a page full of this kind of descriptions).
A year or two ago, a USENET friend whom I never personally met, sent me two books which was bought by his Grandmother (or grandmothers aunt or something to this effect) more than a 100 years ago, when she was on a ship from the Netherlands to Indonesia, and stopped over in Durban, South Africa. ‘Empire Cinema, admission 6d, 1/, and 1/6. The Photographic Specialists was Lennon Limited’
Included is also a fold-open map of the Durban of those years.
He also gave me one for Cape Town, being printed in 1914. The School of Art, Cape town’s fees was
Painting £1 *per quarter* for 1 class per week
£1.10 for 2 classes per week and £3 for 3 classes per week. Teachers under the Department at half fee.
This is single extractions from lots of it with photos.
Right now it get stored in my safe.
I consider making a framed collage of photos photographed from it.
The reason for this writing is that when opening them now, it was as if the pages discolored a bit.
These books are in a, as new condition. When I asked about it, I’ve been told that is was in other books. Now, it is in my safe where it is dark, but how am I going to prevent discoloring of the ink? Will the ink fade if kept under normal indoor light?
Maybe it is valuable because there is lots of photos from those years in it.
Maybe I should keep it out of sharp light, or would light not be a factor? What kind of ink was used those years?
On the first page, somebody wrote a name and date – 1916, (seemingly ballpoint?) and that is as if written yesterday.
Dave
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