BOER WAR AFRIKANERS IN EXILE IN PATAGONIA C. 1910 PHOTO ALBUM.
Photo Album (Buenos Aires, Argentina).
(Argentina): np., nd. 24p., photos, decorated cloth, oblong 4to (24x32cm) Hardcover 96 8 X 11 cm black and white photographs loosely inserted four to a page in a c. 1910 Art-Nouveau designed photo album (24 x 32 cm). This interesting collection of photographs was purchased in Buenos Aires and is of happy fair skinned Europeans, possibly Dutch in Argentina. The only locale that has been identified as a setting for some of the photos is the Jardin Botanico in Buenos Aires. Other settings appear to be the arid plains of Patagonia and its port. There are ten photos of Blacks who are uncommon in Argentina. They might be the servants of the Whites. Interestingly enough, the Blacks appear quite well dressed and happy and are posed along with the Whites. Most of the photos are of people in pairs and groups. In some photos the males and one female are posed in uniforms similar to that used by the Boers. Many Afrikaners were exiled to Argentina from 1902 to 1906. There are similarities between the Patagonian plains and the South African "Karos" which permitted their adaption. Both are lands of scarce vegetation and water as is evident in the photos. There is an interesting book on the Boer exile to Southern Argentina which was consulted- EN LA TIERRA DEL VIENTO...ULTIMA TRAVESIA BOER 1902-2002 by Liliana Esther Peralta and Maria Lauro Moron, published in Comodoro Rivadavia, Chubut, Argentina in 2002 which is included with the album. The book has photographs but only one of them depicts a black person-a hottentot. 600 Afrikaners came to Argentina and over half were repatriated in the 1930's. The possibilty exists that the album's settings was South Africa before the exile of the unidentified family (Item ID: 104126)
$727.30
