Look at Source 5a.
Original caption: ‘Photograph: Two boys selling papers: Relief of Mafeking’. Catalogue ref: COPY 1/446/320
This photograph was registered by a photographer on the 18th May 1900 who lived in Chelmsford, Essex.
- How can we tell that photograph has be staged?
- Why do you think this photograph was taken?
- Does it reveal anything about the public reaction to the relief of Mafeking?
- How useful is this to historians of the South African War?