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Southern African collection of Wren Robinson
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 220
Scope and Contents
Papers and photographs regarding Lesotho and South Africa.
Dates:
1964 - 1981
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Studies [of Zulus]
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3058G
Scope and Contents
A commercially published collection of prints housed in a folder. The captions have been used as titles and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. Unless otherwise stated the prints measure 95 x 70 mm.
Dates:
1939 - 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Sydney Tyers album
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305K
Scope and Contents
A disbound album containing prints of various sizes, with captions beneath the prints. The captions have been used as titles and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. Of the prints, 61 relate to the overseas service of Lieutenant Colonel Tyers, the remainder being photographs of English and continental scenes. The photographer for the vast majority of the prints is unknown.The photographs are arranged in haphazard sequence but the movements of the Boadicea have...
Dates:
1880 - 1889
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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T.B.R. Westgate Collection on German East Africa
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose prints, lantern slides and glass negatives. The prints mostly relate to Westgate’s earlier work, but there are a few from the 1930s, including nos. 426-454 of visits to South Africa and African islands, all processed in February 1936. The captions have been used as titles and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. They have been retained to reflect the context of their creation. Many of the lantern slides and glass negatives are uncaptioned and...
Dates:
1899 - 1936
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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The Alexander Hepple Collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 199
Scope and Contents
Material related to the history of the South African trade union movement and the South African Labour Party
Dates:
1913 - 1983
Conditions Governing Access:
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The Boer War Memorial, Grahamstown
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059W
Scope and Contents
Two prints, mounted on card stamped 'Hepburn and Jeanes' with captions which have been used as titles and recorded as found.
Dates:
1906
Conditions Governing Access:
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The Cape Monthly Magazine Vols. 5-11
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059D-J,X
Scope and Contents
Collection of original prints inserted in issues of the monthly magazine, and one separately mounted (Y3059J). The captions have been used as titles and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of their creation. A list of photographs published in the magazine is on pages 259-262 of Marjorie Bull and Joseph Denfield's 'Secure the shadow', though it is not entirely complete.
Dates:
1859 - 1862
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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'The dispossessed': PhD thesis
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 201
Scope and Contents
'A study of changes in African marriage and family systems under the impact of urbanization (with special reference to Eastern Native Township - and to conditions in and around the city of Johannesburg)', a Ph.D. thesis based on a study made in 1950-1953, and including photographs and maps.
Dates:
1957
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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The Natal team which beat the Cape Colony, first contest
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3058E
Scope and Contents
144 x 101 mm., mounted on card. Photographer unknown, possibly H.F. Gros. The print is a group photograph of the fifteen uniformed members of the Natal Shooting team holding their rifles (see below). The photographic process has not been identified but is the same as Y3055H. The identifications written on the reverse of the mount are also in the same handwriting as those found on Y3055H and both prints were probably presented on the same occasion. The seven identified...
Dates:
1875 - 1880
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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The Progress of H.R.H. Prince Alfred Ernest Albert through the Cape Colony, British Kaffraria... in the year 1860
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305V
Scope and Contents
A quarto, 180 page volume recording the visit of Prince Alfred, later Duke of Edinburgh, second son of Queen Victoria, to South Africa. Bound in a decorative purple cover, it appeared in 1861. It was illustrated with actual photographs stuck in; ten reproduce paintings by Thomas Bowler (1812-1869) or Thomas Baines (1822-1875); the remainder are actual photographs of events of the Prince's visit (1, 7-11 and 13).The following notes draw extensively on Bull and Denfield (1970), which...
Dates:
1860 - 1861
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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The South Africa Campaign, 1879
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3058B
Scope and Contents
A memorial volume, compiled by J.P. MacKinnon and Sydney Shadbolt, containing sixty-one Woodbury types of head and shoulders portraits (mainly in uniform) of officers killed during the Zulu War. The oval prints, taken by a variety of photographers, measure 91 x 113 mm.
Dates:
1879
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Transvaal Annexation Commission
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3055H
Scope and Contents
142 x 101 mm. A cabinet print with identifying captions on the reverse. The print is a permanent photograph of some kind but the precise process has not been identified. The print shows a formally posed group portrait of Sir Theophilus Shepstone and his staff during the annexation of the Transvaal in April 1877. The attribution of this photograph to H.F. Gros is from Rider Haggard's ‘The days of my life' (2 vols. London 1926) where a photograph of the group (Vol. I, facing p.73), taken...
Dates:
1877
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Under many flags: my pilgrimage
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 15
Scope and Contents
An account of a journey undertook in 1953-1954 to Hong Kong, Thailand, Japan, Manila, North Borneo, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Sierra Leone, the Gold Coast and the U.S.A. The volumes are undated, but the last entry in the epilogue is dated 1957.
Dates:
1957
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Views in Cape Town
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059T
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose snapshots measuring approximately 100 x 80 mm. with handwritten captions on the reverse. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Photographs by Henry Rudland.
Dates:
1915
Conditions Governing Access:
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Views in Cape Town and Vicinity, 1857-1879
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059A
Scope and Contents
A collection of albumen prints (numbers 50-77 being stereoscopic cards) of various sizes. All the prints are mounted on card and most have captions by C.J. Busk. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Titles composed by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets. Many also have additional annotations by his son Charles W. Busk (mostly relating to the changes apparent in the scenes photographed when Charles W. Busk was in South Africa in 1914). ...
Dates:
1857 - 1879
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Views in Cape Town, circa 1902
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305I
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose prints, most measuring approximately 100 x 75 mm, with handwritten captions and the signature 'Photo by P.G. Scott' on the reverse. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Titles supplied by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets. The prints show views of streets and buildings in Cape Town with a number of photographs of exhibits in the South African Museum (22-28) and three prints of Durban and East London (29-31).
Dates:
1902
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Views in Cape Town, Pietermaritzburg and Pretoria, circa 1890-1900
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305G
Scope and Contents
A collection of miscellaneous loose prints. The photographs are of various sizes and are either captioned on the print or have handwritten captions on the reverse. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Titles supplied by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets.
Dates:
1890 - 1900
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Views in Johannesburg
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3055E
Scope and Contents
Two loose prints with handwritten captions on the reverse. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found.
Dates:
1902
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Views in Johannesburg
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3055G
Scope and Contents
A collection of small postcards measuring 83 x 58 mm., captioned in letterpress on the reverse. Photographs by Art Co. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found.
Dates:
1950
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Views in Lourenço Marques [i.e. Maputo]
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468S
Scope and Contents
A collection of thirty-two loose prints, measuring approximately 205 x 155 mm. and mounted on card. The majority of which are captioned and signed by the photographer. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Titles composed by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets. Showing views in and around Lourenço Marques at the turn of the century, including street scenes, individual buildings and dances. At this period, the town was just starting the economic...
Dates:
1895 - 1908
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Views in Port Elizabeth
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059V
Scope and Contents
An album containing prints measuring approximately 190 x 130 mm without original captions. Most of the identifications were made with the aid of J.J. Redgrave's 'Port Elizabeth in bygone days,' (1947). Photographer unknown.
Dates:
1865 - 1878
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Views in Port Elizabeth
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059N
Scope and Contents
Collection of loose prints measuring approximately 105 x 80 mm., with extensive typewritten captions on a separate sheet. The captions have been used as titles and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of their creation. The captions from the album have been removed, and the longer descriptive extracts taken from the typewritten sheet (dated April 10 1898) are inserted with the photographs.
Dates:
1897 - 1898
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Views in Simon's Town [i.e. Simonstad]
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059S
Scope and Contents
A collection of views measuring approximately 215 x 155 mm, with pencilled captions on the reverse. The captions have been used as titles and recorded as found. Photographs by T.D. Ravenscroft and others.
Dates:
1900
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Views in South Africa and Mozambique, circa 1875-80
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305A
Scope and Contents
An album containing albumen prints of various sizes. The album shows views in Durban, Pietermaritzburg and a few from Mozambique. The majority of the images are briefly captioned; captions composed for untitled prints are enclosed in square brackets.
Dates:
1873 - 1890
Conditions Governing Access:
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Views in South Africa, circa 1899
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305F
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose prints presented by government surveyor E.H.V. Melvill. 1-14 are platinum prints. Most measure approximately 200 x 150 mm, with pencilled captions on the reverse. The captions have been used as titles and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of their creation. Titles supplied by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets. The photographer's stamp is imprinted in relief in the bottom...
Dates:
1899
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library