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South Africa (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 3617 Collections and/or Records:

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The mountain zebra (Cape Province), 1920 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC South Africa/73
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Collection of monochrome postcards printed in collotype showing stuffed animals in the Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg. Accompanying the postcards is a four page printed leaflet by the Director of the Natal Museum, Ernest Warren, dated April 1924 and entitled 'The need for the International protection of the African fauna.' All photographs by C Akerman except no. 73, which is by 'F. Teschner'.

Dates: 1920 - 1929
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Fonds

The Natal team which beat the Cape Colony, first contest

 Fonds
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: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Natural Arch at the Heads, Knysna, C.P., 1920 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC South Africa/146
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Collection of monochrome postcards. Published by H.S. Joseph, The Handy House, Kynsa.

Dates: 1920 - 1929
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The New Knysna Bridge, C.P., 1920 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC South Africa/140
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Collection of monochrome postcards. Published by H.S. Joseph, The Handy House, Kynsa.

Dates: 1920 - 1929
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The New Somerset Hospital, 1861

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059I/4
Scope and Contents

A general view of the newly completed Somerset Hospital at Green Point, with part of Table Mountain visible in the background.

Dates: 1861
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Non-Com’s Pioneers, 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052A/4
Scope and Contents

Modern copy. A formal group portrait of 25 uniformed N.C.O.s posed in front of a tent probably at Mafeking in May 1890. Figures identified in the album are Hill, Stoward, Friday Wallace, Deepdale, Ogilvie, Jim Finncare, Binkley, Arthur Eyre, Spreckley and Rice Hamilton.

Dates: 1890
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The North Jetty, 1897 - 1898

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059N/8
Scope and Contents

A view looking down on the North Jetty with a railway locomotive and trucks in the foreground, and wharves and the bay beyond.

Dates: 1897 - 1898
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Nugget ‘Perseverance’, 1873 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3055B/12
Scope and Contents 138 x 190 mm. A studio photograph of the famous gold nugget, mounted on a stand and with a printed card beneath reading: The nugget ‘Perseverance’. Found 16th December 1874. Weight 119 ozs 2 dwts. Size 5-3/4 inches extreme length. 4 inches thickest part. Found at Pilgrim’s rest, New Caledonia Gold Fields, South African Republic. Being the largest Nugget then discovered in South Africa. Found by the following Diggers from the Colony of Natal: Geo Russell. S.J. Lilley. F.W. Wormald. G.W....
Dates: 1873 - 1879
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Ocean Beach, Durban, 1920 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC South Africa/46
Scope and Contents

Photograph by Sapsco Real Photo.

Dates: 1920 - 1929
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The old coaching days. The Mafeking-Bulawayo coach at Mafeking [Mahikeng], 1900 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305J/39
Scope and Contents

196 x 134 mm. Showing the unhitched stage-coach standing in front of the P.M. Fincham's store and the Standard Restaurant, with three young Africans posed near the shafts of the vehicle.

Dates: 1900 - 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Old Drift, North Bridge, Potchefstroom, South Africa, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC South Africa/7
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Collection of loose monochrome gravure postcards of Potchefstroom. Originally part of the Fisher collection. Captions have been recorded as found and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation.

Dates: 1900
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Old Mill, North Bridge, Potchefstroom, South Africa, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC South Africa/5
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Collection of loose monochrome gravure postcards of Potchefstroom. Originally part of the Fisher collection. Captions have been recorded as found and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation.

Dates: 1900
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Old Town House or Burgher Watch House, Cape Town, 1970

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 342/2/2
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

A three-part series of black and white images on card designed to provide teachers with material to illustrate history lessons. The series includes a wide range of pictures, portraits and photographs. Titles and captions have been recorded as found and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. The items are undated, but probably originate from between the 1960s and 1980s.

Dates: 1970
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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'The Orange River below Kei’s, looking west', 1872

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 191/27
Scope and Contents

The caption reads, 'The first boat that floated on its waters. The left hand shore is the Cape Colony, the right is the great Southern Desert, 1872. The Islands in front are where Sir Walter Currie shelled out the bushmen about 1870-1'. The term Bushmen is a historic term used to describe a group of Khoisan-speaking hunter-gatherers who lived in the Kalahari Desert.

Dates: 1872
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The orchestra (drums and sort of xylophones) accompanying dancers, De Beers Compound, 1910 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30546A/83
Scope and Contents

73 x 51 mm. Showing a group of musicians with a ring of spectators in the background. These are presumably Chopi tribesmen from Portuguese East Africa come to South Africa to work in the mines.

Dates: 1910 - 1911
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Park. Maritzburg, Natal [i.e. KwaZulu-Natal], 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305F/3
Scope and Contents

199 x 146 mm. Showing a roadway beside a river in the park in Pietermaritzburg, with an African rickshaw driver standing in the foreground.

Dates: 1899
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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'The Peregrinations of T.D. Simon', Vol. 2, 1935 - 1956

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304R
Scope and Contents

Contains photographs relating to:
1. Naivasha, Longonot, Osirian, Gilgil, Nanyuki, Mombasa.
2. S.S. ‘Watussi’, London-Mombasa, Oct 1935.
3. M.V. ‘Bloemfontein Castle’; S.S ‘Mantola’, 1950.
4. Vickers Vimy and Fairey III D aircraft, Nairobi, 1930’s.
5. Villagisation, post Mau Mau, Kikuyu, mid 1950’s.




Dates: 1935 - 1956
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Point, Durban, Natal [i.e. KwaZulu-Natal], 1875 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305A/1
Scope and Contents

192 x 135 mm. A view from a neighbouring hillside looking across the Bay of Natal, with ships at anchor in the foreground.

Dates: 1875 - 1880
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Port Elizabeth Club, 1888

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305C/21
Scope and Contents

192 x 125 mm. A view looking across a lawn and flowerbed towards the substantial stone built club premises.

Dates: 1888
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Post Office, Adderley Street, Cape Town, 1902

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305I/2
Scope and Contents

75 x 100 mm. A view looking across Adderley Street towards the Post Office.

Dates: 1902
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Premier Diamond Mine near Pretoria, 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305E/182
Scope and Contents

152 x 202 mm. A view looking down into the big hole at the Premier Diamond Mine twenty three miles east of Pretoria. It was here that the Cullinan Diamond, later presented to Edward VII for inclusion in the Crown Jewels, was found in 1905.

Dates: 1925
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Presidency, Pretoria, 1932

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3055I/3
Scope and Contents 295 x 213 mm. Showing Kruger's house in Church Street West, a long single storied building with a 'stoep' and a corrugated iron roof. President Kruger is seated on the 'stoep' while two soldiers stand on guard duty beside the man entrance. After the death of Kruger's wife in 1901 the house was used by the South African Constabulary. After a short spell as a boarding house it was reoccupied by members of the Kruger family until 1918 when it became a nursing home. In 1934 it became the...
Dates: 1932
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Pretoria Carabineers, 1880 - 1881

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3055A/21
Scope and Contents 191 x 140 mm. A group of the Pretoria Carabineers with their commanding officer Captain R.K.H. D’Arcy seated in the front row at the right. D’Arcy since 1863 had acted in various clerical capacities in the Magistrate Department in Kingwilliamstown (1863-5), Peddie (1865-7) and Aliwal North (1867-7?) and was appointed Resident Magistrate at Kimberley in 1875 (see C.O. List 1879). He was severely wounded in the left foot during the action at Six-mile Spruit on 29 December 1880. For details of...
Dates: 1880 - 1881
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Prince and his first Wildebeest, 1860

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305V/11
Scope and Contents Copy A: 152 x 110 mm. The Prince is partly facing the camera, and he is looking down on a dead wildebeest, its head supported by a uniformed African, and another African stands behind looking on. Behind the Prince is a wagon, the horse drawing it partly visible, and a Malay can be seen in it. Another wagon, very blurred, is in the background. Copy B: 158 x 112 mm. The Prince is virtually in profile. The Malay and the horse are not visible, but a very blurred African figure is seen in the...
Dates: 1860
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Prince’s Interview with the Tambookies, 1860

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305V/9
Scope and Contents

200 x 135 mm. Somewhat clumsy contemporary retouching has partially scalped the Prince’s horse’s mane.

Dates: 1860
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).