Janus: Edward John Dunn Collection

RCS/Y305L contains:
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12	Granny Dunn
13	Captain Van der Ven, Cape Town
14	Dr Ross, Cape Town
15	M. Jackson, Border Magistrate. Kenhart [i.e. Kenhardt]
16	Revd. Jas [sic] Thompson, Independent Minister, C. Town [i.e. Cape Town]
17	A. de Smidt, Surveyor General, C. Town [i.e. Cape Town]
18	McGibbon, C. Town [i.e. Cape Town] Bot. Garden
19	Dr G.A. [sic] Atherstone
20	Sir H. Barkly, Governor, Cape Town
21	Richard Southey, Col. Secretary, Cape Town
22	Commandant Bowker, King William's Town
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Edward John Dunn Collection

Title	A. de Smidt, Surveyor General, C. Town [i.e. Cape Town]
Reference	Y305L/17
Creator	Barnard, Samuel Baylis, fl 1841-1916, photographer
Covering Dates	circa 1869-circa 1889
Extent and Medium	Fair condition, slight fading.

Content and context

50 x 64 mm. (Oval image). A carte de visite head and shoulders studio portrait of Abraham de Smidt (1829-1908). A surveyor and amateur artist, de Smidt entered the Cape Civil Service as a clerk in the Commissariat Department in 1846 and was admitted as a government surveyor in 1848. During the years 1849-1850 and 1853-1856 he served on the re-survey commissions in the eastern districts of Cape Colony and was Surveyor-General from 1873-1889. He retired to England and died in Brighton. The backmark reads: 'Under the patronage of H.M. The Queen. H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh R.N. H.E. The Governor and Co. The Capetown Photographic Gallery , S.B. Barnard, Adderley Street, Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope. The negative is kept. Further copies can be ordered by this number'. The handwritten number '9277'' is inserted here. Abraham de Smidt's signature is beneath the print.

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Western Cape, Province of the

Barnard, Samuel Baylis (fl 1841-1916) photographer

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