South Africa (nation)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 3617 Collections and/or Records:
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Col. Sir W.O. Lanyon, KCMG. Administrator of the Transvaal, 1880 - 1881
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3055A/17
Scope and Contents
82 x 107 mm. A head and shoulders, full face portrait of Colonel Sir William Owen Lanyon (1842-87), Administrator of the Transvaal, March 1879-1881, when he was instructed to relinquish the office owing to his original misjudgements over Boer strength and feeling. Lanyon’s previous career had been a varied one of soldiering and administration in several countries. Joining the army in 1860, he served in the West Indies from 1865-73 (ADC and private secretary to the Governor of Jamaica...
Dates:
1880 - 1881
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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Cambridge University Library
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News of the Camp
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Colenso, Natal [KwaZulu-Natal] - Main power station for the supply of electricity to the Natal [KwaZulu-Natal] main line. On the Tugela River, 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305E/176
Scope and Contents
203 x 140 mm. Showing the power station buildings (erected in 1924) with the Tugela River in the foreground.
Dates:
1925
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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College Head Master's residence, Diocesan College on camp ground looking about West. Rondebosch, Cape of G. Hope, 1857 - 1879
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059A/20
Scope and Contents
245 x 195 mm. Showing the headmaster's thatched cottage in the grounds of the Rondebosch Diocesan College with Devil's Peak and Table Mountain in the background. The college was founded in 1849.
Dates:
1857 - 1879
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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Colonel Bellairs C.B.-District Commandant, Transvaal, 1880 - 1881
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3055A/16
Scope and Contents
85 x 107 mm. A head and shoulder, three-quarter profile of Colonel (later Sir) William Bellairs (1828-1913) who came to Pretoria after an active military career as Brigadier General in charge of the Transvaal. Bellairs had entered the 49th Regiment in 1846, serving between 1854-73, in the Crimea, the West Indies, Ireland, Canada and Gibraltar. From December 1877-March 1878 he was placed in command of the Eastern frontier of Cape Colony during the 9th Frontier War and in 1879 served on Lord...
Dates:
1880 - 1881
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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News of the Camp
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'Colonel Wood's Camp on the Blood River, north side near Conference Hill, 5th January 1879, on the march to the Zulu War, comprising No. 4 Column', 5 Jan. 1879
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 191/5
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Water colours and pen and ink sketches documenting Anderson's travels in southern Africa, accompanied by his original captions and explanatory notes. The original titles and captions have been enclosed in single quotation marks, and have been transcribed in the catalogue as found, with the exception of an egregiously offensive term used in some titles, which has not been transcribed. Where possible, modern place names have been supplied.
Dates:
5 Jan. 1879
Conditions Governing Access:
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'Colonel Wood's Camp on the Blood River, south side', 17 Jan. 1879
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 191/6
Scope and Contents
The caption reads, 'The sketch is taken, looking south the camp is No. 4 Column, on the march to the Zulu War, taken 17th January 1879. The Camp of the Swazi warriors 1,000 strong is on the right and commanded by British officers. It is attached to Colonel Wood's force to fight against the Zulu nation, sent by their King'.
Dates:
17 Jan. 1879
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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Colonial Office Visual Instruction Committee water colours
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 195
Scope and Contents
A series of watercolours commissioned from the Rhodesian artist Mrs Gilbert Stephenson to be used in colouring lantern slides to illustrate the fifth handbook, A.J. Sargent, 'South Africa: seven lectures (London, 1914). Stephenson had been recommended by the British South Africa Company.
Dates:
1913 - 1914
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Colonial questions, 1931-06 - 1936-07
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 334/11
Scope and Contents
Newscuttings concerning, among other issues, Indians in South Africa and the black population of the United States.
Dates:
1931-06 - 1936-07
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Newscuttings on Africa
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Colosseum at night, Johannesburg, 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3055G/10
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
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:
From the Fonds:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Views in Johannesburg
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Commandant Abel Erasmus, Lydenburg, Z.A.R. [i.e. South African Republic, now known as Transvaal], 1899
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305F/14
Scope and Contents
195 x 145 mm. Showing Josephus Abel Erasmus, a white bearded figure in a checked suit and pith helmet, seated on horseback with an armed African man standing beside the horse. Abel Erasmus (1845-1912) was an official of the Transvaal Republic who grew up in the Ohrigstad area. From 1864-1876 he farmed at Krugerspos (where he lived for the rest of his life). After playing an important role in a number of African wars he served during the first Boer War as a field cornet in the siege of...
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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Commandant Bowker, King William's Town, 1858 - 1871
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305L/22
Scope and Contents
55 x 89 mm. A carte de visite full length, seated studio portrait of Commandant James Henry Bowker, wearing military uniform. Bowker (1822-1900), a farmer, soldier, civil servant and naturalist, took part in the Seventh Frontier War (1846-47) and was involved in the suppression of the Kat River Rebellion in the Eighth Frontier War (1850-53). He was made an Inspector in the frontier armed and mounted police in 1855, and promoted Commandant in 1858. Other military expeditions in which he...
Dates:
1858 - 1871
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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Commander's cabin H.M.S. 'Flora', Simon's Bay, Cape of Good Hope. Mrs Rainier in the chair 1884, 1884-05
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305K/3
Scope and Contents
205 x 139 mm. Showing Miss Rainier, wife of the Captain of H.M.S. Flora seated reading a book in the Commander's cabin.
Dates:
1884-05
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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Cambridge University Library
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Sydney Tyers album
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Commanding Officers of the Cape Town Volunteers, 1861
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059I/3
Scope and Contents
A studio group portrait showing the uniformed figures of, from left to right:
Colonel John Thomas Eustace (1825-1910), soldier and civil servant. Gazetted into the 60th Rifles 1844, served in Canada and later in the Crimea with the Osmanli Irregular cavalry. He retired to Wynberg and later in life became a civil servant, being appointed Resident with Chief Sarili at Butterworth from 1875-1879. He was appointed Civil Commissioner for Namaqualand in 1879 and ended his career as Civil...
Dates:
1861
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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[Commercial Exchange building, housing Board of Executors and Trust Company Ltd and Standard Bank of British South Africa], 1873 - 1879
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3055B/18
Scope and Contents
145 x 103 mm. Probably by Robert Forbes.
Dates:
1873 - 1879
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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Views in the Transvaal
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Commissariat and Transport, 1880 - 1881
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3055A/28
Scope and Contents
190 x 140 mm. A group portrait of Officers of the Commissariat and Transport Departments, posed against a background of bell tents among which the Union Jack is flying. The printed caption on the print, which possibly supplied identifications of some of the figures seen here, is faded into illegibility.
Dates:
1880 - 1881
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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Cambridge University Library
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News of the Camp
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Commissariat Stores, Lower Tugela, Natal [i.e. KwaZulu-Natal], 1879 - 1880
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3058A/29
Scope and Contents
203 x 136 mm. Showing tents, boxes and sacks of stores on the bank of the Tugela River below Fort Pearson, with a group of soldiers posed for the photographer in the foreground.
Dates:
1879 - 1880
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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Commission Street, looking east, Johannesburg, 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305E/185
Scope and Contents
203 x 152 mm. A view from a high building looking along Commissioner Street and over the rooftops of Johannesburg.
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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Commissioner Street, Johannesburg, 1890
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305D/70
Scope and Contents
285 x 233 mm. A view looking west along Commissioner Street towards Fordsburg with pedestrians, hansom cabs and carts on the as yet unsurfaced roadway. Photograph probably by E. Caney, in about 1890. The print has the caption: 'Commissioner Street, Johannesburg', and is numbered '139.'
Dates:
1890
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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Committee of races, 1901
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3058H/26
Scope and Contents
115 x 95 mm. Group appearing in Y3058H/27.
Dates:
1901
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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Vryheid, South Africa
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Commonwealth Universities, 1980 - 1990
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 401/1
Scope and Contents
This is an unedited draft of a book in which Alexander set out to give 'a personal account of my contacts with universities in the developing countries of the Commonwealth.'It begins with the background of Alexander’s own university education at Auckland, Cambridge and London; describes Raffles College and the University of Malaya; and his work at the University of Ibadan and the contribution of its Physics Department during the International Geophysical Year 1957-58. Considerable...
Dates:
1980 - 1990
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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Conservatory, St. George's Park, Port Elizabeth, 1888
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305C/19
Scope and Contents
192 x 125 mm. Showing the conservatory situated among lawns in St. George's Park.
Dates:
1888
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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Constantia - the Residence of S. van Reenan, Esq., 1861
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059H/3
Scope and Contents
A view showing the buildings at Constantia, eleven miles from Cape Town. The buildings themselves are largely obscured by trees and few details of this famous wine making estate can be seen. The figure standing in the foreground is Sebastian van Reenan, the proprietor.
Dates:
1861
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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Convoy crossing drift, 1901
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3058H/13
Scope and Contents
75 x 100 mm. A line of cattle being driven across a river bed.
Dates:
1901
Conditions Governing Access:
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Vryheid, South Africa
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[Convoy of carts], 1901
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3058H/98
Scope and Contents
300 x 85 mm. panoramic view of mule teams, carts and African drivers.
Dates:
1901
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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Vryheid, South Africa
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Copy of journal 1838, 1838-07
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 217/2
Scope and Contents
A carbon copy of a typed transcript made from a microfilm of William Napier's journal by Professor Winifred Maxwell.
Dates:
1838-07
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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