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File:Green Point - Cape Town - Boer War - Transit Camp.jpg

Summary

Description
Very old photograph of Green Point Common, Cape Town, during the Second Boer War. The area is being used as a transit camp for prisoners of war to be shipped to remote islands. The Mouille Point Lighthouse can be seen in the background and the beginnings of the old Green Point Stadium are visible on the lower righthand side.
Date 1899–1902 (dates of the war)
Source Unknown internet site containing Boer War records.
Author Unknown
Permission
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Public domain, photograph taken more than 100 years ago.

Licensing

Public domain This work was first published in South Africa and is now in the public domain because its copyright protection has expired by virtue of the Copyright Act of 1978, amended 2002. The work meets one of the following criteria:
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  • It is another kind of work, and 50 years have passed since the year of death of the author (or last-surviving author).

A South African work that is in the public domain in South Africa according to this rule is in the public domain in the U.S. only if it was in the public domain in South Africa in 1996, e.g. if it was published before 1946 and no copyright was registered in the U.S. (This is the effect of 17 USC 104A with its critical date of January 1, 1996.)
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Orientation Normal
Horizontal resolution 72 dpi
Vertical resolution 72 dpi
Software used Adobe Photoshop CS2 Windows
File change date and time 12:31, 14 December 2011
Colour space Uncalibrated
Image height 817 px
Image width 623 px
Date and time of digitizing 13:27, 14 December 2011
Date metadata was last modified 13:31, 14 December 2011

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