2nd ANGLO-BOER WAR: ROSENTHAL'S PANORAMAS AND THE SIEGE OF LADYSMITH., Rosenthal, Joseph.

2nd ANGLO-BOER WAR: ROSENTHAL'S PANORAMAS AND THE SIEGE OF LADYSMITH.
Rosenthal, Joseph. A Collection of 9 gelatin silver panoramic prints of the British Army in South Africa. [South Africa: 1899-1901.]
Each panorama 290 x 90 mm, showing British Forces at camp relaxing, and on the march across the veldt.
TOGETHER WITH:
A group of 7 objects related to the Siege of Ladysmith and the Boer War comprising:
A leather heel for a boot, engraved "Ladysmith Relieved Feb 28 1900";
A brass bullet adapted as a pendant engraved "Dec 11th 99";
A Boer shilling adapted as a pendant;
A small section of a flag luff and canton, 75 x 100mm. Inscribed "Portion Boer's Flag, 1901";
Commemorative silk hat band for a boater type hat lettered "Relief of Ladysmith. Feb. 28, 1900. 64th Battery R.F.A. Buller/White; All five items contained in a commemorative New Years ?chocolate tin, lid with a bust portrait of Queen Victoria, "I wish you a Happy New Year, Victoria. R. South Africa 1900".
WITH:
BAIKIE, HUGH. [B Section Paloking Maxims, S.A Field Force.] A 4pp a.l.s., in pencil, to his cousin, "Emilita," thanking her for the box of cigarettes, discussing the guerilla war and actions against the Boers, dated Kronstadt [Kroonstad], Orange Free State, 13/5/00.

A fine grouping of items relating to the Second Boer War. The Rosenthal panoramas are particularly rare. Rosenthal used a Bioscope camera, to take both wide panoramas and moving images which he sent back to Britain to be screened on the Bioscope projector in the fledgling British movie houses. In other words an early form of the News Reel. Rosenthal was the best of 4 camera men sent to South Africa to cover the war for Charles Urban, an American/British Movie studio boss, who established his business Warwick Trading Company producing newsreel footage. The problems of camera work in the Boer War were usually down to unwieldy and heavy camera equipment, which put the photographer at risk from snipers, and so much of the images of that war are behind the scenes, hence the images of camp life and troops on the march, but without any action photographs.