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File:PACronje CHM VA2863.jpg

Summary

Description
English: General Piet Cronjé (1836-1911), veteran general of the army of the South African Republic during the Second Boer War, taken prisoner by the British when he surrendered after losing the battle of Paardeberg on 27 February 1900. The photograph shows Cronjé as prisoner of war on Saint Helena where he remained until the conclusion of the war on 31 May 1902.
Français : Le général Piet Cronje en détention sur l'île Sainte-Hélène (1900-1902)
Date between 1900 and 1902
Source Provincial Archives of the Free State, Collection Dr. Hendrik Muller, photo collection no. VA2863
Author B. Grant

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:
  • It is an anonymous work or pseudonymous work and 50 years have passed since the date of its publication.
  • It is a broadcast or sound recording and 50 years have passed since the year the programme was published.
  • It is a cinematographic or photographic work and 50 years have passed since the date of its publication (or creation, whichever date is the latest).
  • It is an artistic, literary or musical work created under the direction of the state or an international organization and 50 years have passed since the year the work was published.
  • 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 13:17, 14 December 2011
Colour space Uncalibrated
Image height 1,167 px
Image width 1,400 px
Date and time of digitizing 19:15, 12 August 2009
Date metadata was last modified 14:17, 14 December 2011
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