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An 1893 photograph of early prospectors at the Witwatersrand gold mines in Transvaal, Southern Africa. Mechanical Curator Collection, British Library

Paul Kruger (1825-1904), the Boer statesman who served as Prime Minister of Transvaal from 1883 to 1902, photograph by Elliott & Fry, 1883.

The Charge of the Three Hundred at Doornkop, a sketch by Captain Thatcher depicting the Jameson Raid, Time Inc., 1896. The Jameson Raid was a failed coup d'etat against the Boer Republic of Transvaal in 1895. The raid was led...

The Battle of Majuba Hill on 27 February 1881, illustration by Richard Woodville, Jr., Illustrated London News, 5 March 1881. The battle was won by the Boers during the First Anglo-Boer War (1880-1).

A chunk of quartz with gold from the Witwatersrand mines in South Africa. Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

Members of a Boer commando during the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) in Southern Africa, c. 1900.

A 1908 photograph of the rough Cullinan diamond which was discovered in Transvaal, South Africa in 1905. The diamond weighed 3,106 carats. Nine large stones and 96 smaller ones were cut from the diamond. Cullinan I is now...

A 1908 photograph of the nine largest stones cut from the Cullinan diamond which was discovered in Transvaal, South Africa in 1905. The stones are each named Cullinan I to IX after the owner of the mine in which it was found...

A photograph of Cecil Rhodes (1853-1902) and Dr Leander Starr Jameson (1853-1917) who conspired to launch the Jameson Raid, a failed coup d'etat against the Boer Republic of Transvaal in 1895. National Photo Company Collection...