Image Number: APN262447
Title: CHEERING FLAG, FORT SALISBURY 13 SEPTEMBER 1890
Path:
african.pictures /
Historic Africa /
William Ellerton Fry Collection
Description: William Harvey Brown commented prophetically on the flag-raising ceremony: "Since the North American continent is narrowing as an outlet for the overcrowded countries of Europe, it is no idle dream to predict that with the attractions of climate, soil, and mineral wealth, and cheap and quick methods of transportation, the tide of migration will soon begin to flow to the Dark Continent, where a prominent part of the world's drama is likely to be enacted during the coming century." From an album "Occupation of Mashonaland - Views by W Ellerton Fry". Cecil John Rhodes commissioned the Pioneers Column, accompanied by the newly formed British South Africa Company Police, to march into Mashonaland and form the core of the civilian population. Lieut. Fry was an Intelligence Officer on the Pioneer Corps and its official photographer.
Collections: Independent Photographers
Subcollections:
William Ellerton Fry
Country: ZIMBABWE
Orientation: panoramic
Pixel Size: 4668 x 2886
Media Id: 283_13
Credit: William Ellerton Fry / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
Model Release: No
Property Release: No