Historic Veterinary Glass Plate Collection

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Scanned images of the historical glass plate collection of photographs of the ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Research. The collection consists of photographs about veterinary history in South Africa, Onderstepoort staff, buildings and veterinary laboratories. The ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Research Campus (ARC-OVR), has a long tradition of veterinary research since its founding in 1908 by Sir Arnold Theiler It is nationally and internationally recognized as a veterinary centre of excellence.

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Staff	Visitors / Visits	Historical
Military	Students	Daspoort
Natal	Armoedsvlakte	Allerton
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Wilfred Watkins-Pitchford
(1940) ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Research
Wilfred Watkins-Pitchford, bacteriologist and pioneer of medical research in South Africa, was a younger brother of veterinarian Herbert Watkins-Pitchford. He was born on the 4th of June 1868 in Tattenhall, Cheshire, England and died on the 29th of September 1952 in Wolverhampton, Shropshire, England. In 1900-1901, during the Anglo-boer War (1899-1902), he came to South Africa as bacteriologist to No. 7 General Military Hospital in Escourt, Natal. In 1902 Watkins-Pitchford accepted an appointment as assistant bacteriologist under his brother Herbert, who was then government veterinary bacteriologist of Natal and director of the Allerton Laboratory in Pietermaritzburg. In addition to routine work for various government departments Wilfred assisted his brother in research on various human and stock diseases, including horsesickness, quarter evil, bubonic plague, bluetongue, and East Coast fever. Following the formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910 Watkins-Pitchford was transferred to Johannesburg in 1911 as government pathologist and bacteriologist for the Transvaal Province, serving also as honorary pathologist to the Johannesburg General Hospital. In Septermber 1913 Watkins-Pitchford was appointed as the first director of the newly establshed South African Institute for Medical Research. The institute was founded to conduct research into the prevention and control of human diseases, particularly those affecting workers in the mining industry. When the Medical School was established at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1922 Watkins-Pitchford accepted a part-time appointment as honorary professor and head of the Department of Bacteriology and Pathology. (Source: S2A3 Biographical Database of Southern African Science https://www.s2a3.org.za/bio/Biograph_final.php?serial=3057)
William Catton Branford
(1876) ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Research
William Catton Branford was born in 1837 in the United Kingdom and died in 1891 (place not known). He came to the Cape Colony in October 1876 on a three year contract as the first Colonial Veterinary Surgeon and during his stay was the only veterinarian in the Colony. The challenge that Branford faced in South Africa was formiddable. He was single-handedly responsible for all veterinary work in the colony and had to report on the health of its livestock, investigate mortality and its causes, provide remedies, and advise government on the prevention of stock diseases. He had to travel extensively and several of the diseases he encountered were unfamiliar to him. He submitted reports to government for 1876, 1877 and 1878, but although he was still in the Colony during most of 1879, the Annual Report of the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon for that year was signed by his successor, D. Hutcheon. In 1877 he served on the Parliamentary Commission appointed to inquire into and report upon diseases of cattle and sheep in the colony. In 1882 Branford was struck off the register of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons after being imprisoned for fraud. However, in 1890 he successfully appealed to regain his registration. He was maried to Ann Kitchen. (Source: S2A3 Biographical Database of Southern African Science http://www.s2a3.org.za/bio/Biograph_final.php?serial=341)
Samuel Wiltshire
(1923) ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Research
Samuel Wiltshire was born on the 24th of May 1844 in Longhope, Gloucestershire, England and died on the 1st of March 1923 in Gloucester, England. He qualified as a veterinarian in London in 1872 and was appointed in 1874 to the "Office of Colonial Veterinary Surgeon and Inspector of cattle at the Port of Natal", the first official appointment of a veterinarian in Natal and in South Africa. His appointment was mainly a result of the report of the Natal Redwater Commission of 1873 (see James W. Winter). Arriving in October 1874, his first report, published in the Government Gazette of 29 December 1874, dealt with glanders at Durban. During the next few years he also reported to the government on quarter-evil (1877), redwater (1877), horse-sickness (1878), and heartwater in sheep and goats (Veterinary Journal, 1881). In 1880 Wiltshire also took over the control of all sheep inspectors. His measures to control stock diseases were met with opposition by the farmers and all his attempts to convince the authorities of the necessity of legislation to enforce them failed. Wiltshire was married to Clare Isabella Goodwill. After her death in 1903 he married Harriet Vans. (Source: S2A3 Biographical Database of Southern African Science https://www.s2a3.org.za/bio/Biograph_final.php?serial=3164)
Robert Koch
(1910) ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Research
Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch (11 December 1843 – 27 May 1910) was born in Germany and regarded as one of the main founders of modern bacteriology as he identified the specific causative agents of tuberculosis, cholera, and anthrax and also gave experimental support for the concept of infectious disease. He was the first to describe the causative agent of tuberculosis in 1882 and he developed taberculine. He arrived in southern Africa in 1896 at the request of the Cape Colony to help with the eradication of rinderpest. He identified the causal organism of East Coast fever in 1897 which was first named Piroplasma kochi (now Theileria parva).
Thomas Henry Dale
(1940) ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Research
Thomas H. Dale (born: 29 November 1868, Manchester, United Kingdom. died: 15 July 1917, Durban, South Africa) qualified (MRCVS) at the New Edinburgh Veterinary College in 1889 and immediately came to South Africa as a civil veterinary surgeon (CVS) attached to the Army Veterinary Department. In October 1903 he joined the Veterinary Division in the Department of Agriculture of the Transvaal Colony. By 1908 he was district veterinary surgeon for Potchefstroom, Wolmaranstad and Bloemhof. Following the outbreak of World War I (1914-1918) he was appointed to commissioned rank in the Active Citizen Force in 1916. He later relocated to Natal, where he died in service in Durban. (Source: S2A3 Biographical Database of Southern African Science https://www.s2a3.org.za/bio/Biograph_final.php?serial=636)
J. Irvin Gunter
(1940) ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Research
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Schalk Willem Janse van Rensburg
(1940) ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Research
Schalk van Rensburg (born: 4 June 1896, Cradock, South Africa - died: 5 August 1989, Pretoria, South Africa) obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree at Stellenbosch University and then qualified as a veterinarian (MRCVS) in London in 1921. Returning to South Africa the next year he served as Government Veterinary Officer in various places, including Middelburg, Ermelo and Vryheid. He subsequently moved to Onderstepoort where he first lectured in Medicine in the Veterinary Faculty of the University of Pretoria, and in 1947 became Professor of Surgery and Gynaecology. In this capacity he conducted research on infertility and artificial insemination, mainly in cattle, and became known as the "Father of artificial insemination" in South Africa. He resigned in 1953 to become Senior Research Officer for the Dairy, Meat and Wool Boards. After retiring he opened a veterinary and agricultural bookshop called "Libagric" and at the age of 85 published a book entitled "From the horses mouth". (Source: S2A3 Biographical Database of Southern African Science https://www.s2a3.org.za/bio/Biograph_final.php?serial=3252)
Onderstepoort staff member
(1940) ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Research
Photo of an unknown Onderstepoort staff member. No further information or details available
South-West-African veterinarians
(1910) ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Research
Photograph taken June 1910 of Dr Bothello, Dr Mitchell, Dr Lichtenfiled, Dr Sieber, Dr Theiler, Dr Lux, an unknown Dr and Dr Gender
Cornell chicken colony rearing shelter
(1940) ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Research
Photo of an outdoor shelter for chickens
Burrows of cynictis
(1940) ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Research
Slide showing the network of Cynictis (yellow mongoose) burrow system.
The Waterval Rinderpest Laboratory, 1896
(1896) ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Research
The Waterval Rinderpest Laboratory in 1896 with two unknown persons
Lord Herbert John Gladstone and Lady Gladstone
(1910) ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Research
Group photo outside the Main building of Governor-General Herbert John Gladstone with Arnold Theiler and staff members during his visit to Onderstepoort, 1910. He was the 1st Governor-General of South Africa and in office 31 May 1910 – 8 September 1914
Theiler Book Plate
(1940) ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Research
Presented to The Onderstepoort Library by the Estate of the late Sir Arnold Theiler.
Major C. S. Walker
(1935) ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Research
Major C. S. Walker was the host for a Dairy Congress held at Botha House on the grounds of the University of Grahamstown during September 29th - October 5th, 1935. [Diary of a Congress Delegate - SA Medical Journal, Oct 1935]. No further information or details available
Grave of Major Frank Fairbairn Crawford
(1900) ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Research
Photo of the grave of Major Frank Fairbairn Crawford who died on January 16th, 1900 (aged 49). Crawford was born at Hastings in Sussex in 1850. He graduated from the Royal Veterinary College in 1873 and enlisted in the army in the same year, joining the Royal Artillery as a veterinarian. In late 1874 he was posted to India where he remained for several years. After returning from India, Crawford was stationed in South Africa. He played cricket in South Africa, making his debut for Natal in the 1887 Kimberley Tournament before gong on to play in Natal's five first-class matches during the 1889/90 season, the first matches in which the team had been considered as first-class. By the time of the Second Boer War he had reached the rank of Major. He died of dysentery during the war in January 1900 at the military hospital in Pietermaritzburg and is buried at the Fort Napier cemetery. (Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Fairbairn_Crawford)
Major Alexander Goodall
(1927) ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Research
Alexander Goodall was born on September 2nd, 1879 in the United Kingdom and died on April 6th, 1930 in Wolmaranstad, South Africa. In 1902 he graduated (MRCVS) at the Royal Veterinary College at Camden Town and in October that year joined the Cape of Good Hope Veterinary Department. As Government Veterinary Surgeon he served in various parts of the Cape Colony, inter alia at Worcester in 1908. After the formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910 he was transferred to the Union Veterinary Field Services. Shortly after the outbreak of World War I (1914-1918) Goodall joined the Active Citizen Force as a temporary captain and was soon appointed Officer Commanding No. E Veterinary Section of the South African Veterinary Corps, stationed in Cape Town. Later he was transferred to the veterinary hospital in Pietermaritzburg and was promoted to major in January 1916. After the war, in 1918, he became the senior veterinary officer in charge of the Orange Free State (now the Free State). In 1920 he moved to South West Africa (now Namibia) and in 1924 to the Eastern Cape in the same capacity. In 1921 he obtained his FRCVS with a thesis on the anthrax problem in South Africa. He was promoted to Pretoria as Assistant Principal Veterinary Officer of the Union and in 1927 was appointed lecturer in municipal veterinary hygiene and sub-director of the Division of Veterinary Services at Onderstepoort until his death in 1930. He became a member of the South African Veterinary Medical Association in 1920. Goodall was married to Johanna N. Vlok, but they had no children. (Source: S2A3 Biographical Database of Southern African Science https://www.s2a3.org.za/bio/Biograph_final.php?serial=1085)
Captain Ernest Vernon Stokes
(1925) ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Research
Ernest Vernon Stokes was born on 8/4/1867 in Southwark, London. He qualified MRCVS (Edinburgh) in June 1899 and came to South Africa during the Boer War as a Civil Veterinary Surgeon attached to the Army Veterinary Department. In May 1902 he was in Potchefstroom where he remained until 1905 at the experimental station. At the end of 1905 he commenced practice in Port Elizabeth. On 2/11/1914 he joined the SAVC and saw active service in the South West Africa Campaign . He died in Port Elizabeth on 27/11/1925 at Fairview House. (Source: Past Veterinarians in South Africa Volume 2 M-Z https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/21238)
Military officer at Onderstepoort
(1940) ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Research
Photo of unknown man in uniform sitting on stool, crop in hand with a dog
Military personnel
(1932) ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Research
Photo of military personnel. No information and details available

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