Number 7 in a set of 25 cigarette cards entitled 'Picturesque People of the Empire' issued by Ogden's branch of the Imperial Tobacco Co. Ltd. There is a picture on one side with an inscription reading 'Boer Farmer', and a description on the other side. The text on the reverse reads: 'About 1835 a party of 98 Dutch farmers and their families left Cape Colony and trekked across the Vaal River in order to set up independent communities of their own in the country now known as the Transvaal, and by 1852 about 40,000 people had settled north of the Vaal. These Boers, as their name implies (Boer being Dutch for peasant or farmer) have always been mainly farmers and stock-raisers, speaking a Dutch dialect known as the Taal. In 1910 the province of the Transvaal became part of the Union of South Africa, the seat of government being Pretoria.'
