Robert Provo Norris Collection 1846-1854

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Robert Provo Norris Collection 1846-1854

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/ycba.mss.0011

The collection comprises personal diaries, watercolors, and drawings by Robert Provo Norris, most of which were created while he was a soldier stationed on the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa during the Frontier ("Kaffir") Wars of the 1840s and 1850s.

2 Linear feet (1 box)

eng,

Yale Center for British Art

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SNAC Resource ID: 6352806

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