In 1904, African residents of Natal, in present-day eastern South Africa, lined up for vaccination during a smallpox epidemic. The archive caption says the colonial government had ordered universal vaccination and describes a woman at the head of the line receiving the injection in her arm. The photographer, exact site, crowd size and waiting time are not supplied. What is directly documented is not only vaccination but an ordered line treated from the front. The scene cannot be framed simply as voluntary public health. It was produced under a colonial order, placing medical protection and administrative coercion in the same image. The queue records whose authority organized the procedure and whose bodies were required to pass through it.