South Africa (nation)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 3003 Collections and/or Records:
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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:
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).
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:
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).
Found in:
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:
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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[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:
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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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:
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).
Found in:
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:
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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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:
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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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:
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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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:
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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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:
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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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:
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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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:
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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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:
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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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:
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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Corner of Herschell [sic] ( /67) [C.W.B.], 1867
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059A/59
Scope and Contents
137 x 69 mm. Showing part of the drive and verandah at the front of the house.
Dates:
1867
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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Correspondence, 1956 - 1967
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 217/4
Scope and Contents
Correspondence (circa 24 pages) between Maxwell, Donald Simpson, and the South African Broadcasting Corporation regarding the broadcast of a talk on William Napier's journal.
Dates:
1956 - 1967
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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Correspondence, 1970 - 2000
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 389/10/2
Scope and Contents
Not all contents have been listed, but items include correspondence between Smedley and Sir Edward Youde (Foreign and Commonwealth Office) concerning post-retirement work; letter from W.J. Adams to Smedley, 10 October 1980, on role of wives of heads of missions and necessity for reduced expenses; correspondence with Sir Michael Palliser (CRO, 1975-82), including letter from Smedley expressing surprise at Prime Minister James Callaghan’s remarks on Africa in Washington, 2 June 1978; letter,...
Dates:
1970 - 2000
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).
Sub-Fonds
Correspondence about the Jameson Raid and Cecil Rhodes, 1995
Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 113/99
Scope and Contents
Photocopies of letters concerning different accounts and views of Cecil Rhodes and the Jameson Raid. Much of the correspondence is between F.H. Hamilton and Mr Howell Wright.
Dates:
1995
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Africa miscellanea
Sub-Fonds
Correspondence on Anglo-Afrikaner relations, 1955
Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 113/60
Scope and Contents
Correspondence between Marion How and Patrick Duncan and James Packman, Librarian of the Royal Empire Society.
Dates:
1955
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Africa miscellanea
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Court House, Pietermaritzburg, 1875 - 1880
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305A/18
Scope and Contents
158 x 111 mm. Showing the solid brick building of the old Court House.
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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Courting dress, Nongoma, Zululand [KwaZulu-Natal], 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 211/8
Scope and Contents
'A Zulu youth, when out courting, proclaims his mission in very definite terms by wearing feathers in his hair, his love tokens in beads and by carrying a small courting shield. The two crossover bands of beadwork are the engaged token in his district and have their own story to tell. Small panels of beads worn at the throat are love letters and express clearly the feelings, hopes and fears of the girl who has made them. The meaning given to colours and their combinations vary from district...
Dates:
1947
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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Cradock, 1880
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305B/58
Scope and Contents
The print is initialled 'SA'.
Dates:
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).