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A photograph of the top of wild sorghum grass. It is 1/15 of its natural size.

Shows very large callas, flower stems three feet, flowers 6 inches across. These flower sellers were rapidly exterminating the wild flowers and certain restrictions have been placed on them - however they collect almost everything since Dr. Marloth…

Flower market showing Adderley St. from sidewalk. Bracken, calla, blue gladiolus, heath, violets, daffodils, protea. [Shantz travel journal, Aug. 23, 1919]

Flower market from street side. [Shantz travel journal, Aug. 23, 1919]

Flower market showing Adderley St. from sidewalk. Bracken, calla, blue gladiolus, heath, violets, daffodils, protea. Early in morning went down to the flower market which stretches for a hundred yards or more along Adderley Street on the east side at…

A photograph in palm canyon, where the palms are mainly the wild date palm, phoenix reclinata. H.C. Raven is shown in the background on the right.

Shows the wild date palm, Phoenix reclinata - one of the most attractive palms I have seen. Distribution not general - usually limited to one or two streams. [Shantz travel journal, May 20, 1920]

Shows the wild date palm, Phoenix reclinata - one of the most attractive palms I have seen. Distribution not general - usually limited to one or two streams. [Shantz travel journal, May 20, 1920]

A photograph of the wife of an askari, the name applied to indigenous soldiers. Her face shows a type of face scarification.

A photograph of white quartz in the foreground as well as strychnos pungens and brushy or tree covered koppie in the background. The trees are mostly acacia and combretum.

A photograph with detail of one of the koppies that shows white quartz rock and strychnos pungens.

White kaffir corn? in the fore - m'tama, and an occasional head of Androp[ogon] sorg[hum] halap[ensis]. Grass & trees (Androp. & acacia and trifoliate - m'mormes) on mt. in back. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 15, 1920]

Address at White House Conference On Conservation, Washington, D.C., May 24, 1962

The white flowered shrub which looks like Eriog[onum] fasciculatum of California coast (Metalasia muricata). In fact, the vegetation as such looks almost exactly like the California hills - but, botanically nothing seems to be the same. This shrub is…

An up-close photograph of a white eggplant. The eggplant is of natural size with a light lemon color.

A photograph of a 6 month old white bull calf with two indigenous boy standing in front of it and an indigenous man standing next to a building in the back.

White ants at work on a pole - see mud tunnel - 6 ft. above the ground - also small holes plugged with mud. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 27, 1920]