South Africa (nation)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 3003 Collections and/or Records:
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'Mongpapa Kraal where Sechele fought the Boers and drove them out of his country many years back. It is a large Kraal and the Chief is under Sechele and under a German Missionary.', 1867 - 1869
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 191/39
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:
1867 - 1869
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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Mont-Aux-Sources,The Sentinel, 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305E/111
Scope and Contents
203 x 139 mm. A view looking along a grassy valley towards Mont-Aux-Sources, the second highest peak in the Drakensberg Mountains.
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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Montagu Pass, looking down, George, 1900 - 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305J/84
Scope and Contents
158 x 115 mm. A view looking along the mountain road as it curls downhill along the mountainside, with a gorge at the right and steep mountain slopes on the far side.
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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Montagu Pass - over Outeniqua Mountains, 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305E/38
Scope and Contents
201 x 138 mm. Showing a motor car climbing the road through the Montagu Pass, with a railway line running along beside the road.
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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[Monument], 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/9/25
Scope and Contents
51 x 76 mm. Probably at Kimberley.
Dates:
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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Monuments in Town Gardens, and Post Office, Durban, 1920 - 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC South Africa/53
Scope and Contents
Photograph by A.R.
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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Moodenaar's Kop and the Great Kei River, 1900 - 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305J/95
Scope and Contents
204 x 147 mm. Showing a curve in the river which forms the south eastern boundary of the Trankei, with a mountain in the background. The first letter of the caption has been torn off.
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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Moodies from Union Company's Battery, showing Pioneer United Company, Barberton in distance, 1888
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305C/98
Scope and Contents
192 x 127 mm. A view looking out over the mine workings on the hillside with the Union Company's stamp battery in the foreground. Barberton, to the east, can just be made out in the distance beyond the spur at the right of the photograph.
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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Mopock (Ndebele) children, 1930 - 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305O/7
Scope and Contents
206 x 151 mm. Showing a group of children gathered in a courtyard with painted walls. The caption continues: 'The designs here show the influence of the West. Road signs, motor car numbers, lamp posts, etc. , are being used as motifs, which is to be regretted. They sometimes use touches of oil paint to add their earth colours. There are only a few examples left of this lovely work and culture. 1949'. Although uncredited in this album, this photograph was probably taken by Dorothy Barker...
Dates:
1930 - 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).
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Mopock (Ndebele) children near Pretoria, 1930 - 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305O/23
Scope and Contents
90 x 125 mm.
Dates:
1930 - 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).
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Mopock (Ndebele) children near Pretoria, 1930 - 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305O/24
Scope and Contents
130 x 184 mm.
Dates:
1930 - 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).
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Mopock (Ndebele) children on the outside wall of their home, 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305O/11
Scope and Contents
206 x 151 mm. The caption continues: 'The colourings of the walls are of soft earth shades: yellows, ochres, red-brown and white. The beauty of the whole is very striking. Near Pretoria. 1949.'
Dates:
1949
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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Mopock (Ndebele) children seated on low mud wall outside the main high wall. Near Pretoria, 1930 - 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305O/18
Scope and Contents
208 x 150 mm.
Dates:
1930 - 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).
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Mopock (Ndebele) decorated walls outside the house, 1930 - 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305O/9
Scope and Contents
180 x 178 mm. The caption continues: 'Peach trees are typical of this village. Within there is usually the large hut in the middle, on each side a smaller one for girls and boys. At the side at back a grain hut. Walls make divisions in courtyard, where cooking is done, water kept, etc.'
Dates:
1930 - 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).
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Mopock (Ndebele) entrance to another house, near Pretoria, 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305O/6
Scope and Contents
178 x 164 mm.
Dates:
1949
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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Mopock (Ndebele) large house, 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305O/10
Scope and Contents
204 x 152 mm. The caption continues: 'showing the one leading to the other through the courtyards. 1949. Near Pretoria'.
Dates:
1949
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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Mopock (Ndebele) mother and children. Near Pretoria, 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305O/8
Scope and Contents
153 x 205 mm.
Dates:
1949
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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Mopock (Ndebele) outside wall and lower wall, 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305O/5
Scope and Contents
206 x 151 mm. The caption continues: 'The doors are always quite out of keeping with the beauty of the huts and courtyards. Pretoria. 1949'. Although uncredited in this album, this photograph was probably taken by Dorothy Barker (Mrs Malcolm Barker). An identical photograph is held in the Killie Campbell Africana Library under the reference Album D23/001-231 Transvaal Tribes Album 1 [BRN 310829].
Dates:
1949
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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Mopock (Ndebele) square house, 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305O/2
Scope and Contents
206 x 153 mm. The caption continues: '... many of which contain an inner round room, within a circular walk divided into smaller store rooms. The walls inside are decorated, as are the walls of the courtyards, and the floors are made of cow-dung, patterned. Near Pretoria. 1949'. Although uncredited in this album, this photograph was probably taken by Dorothy Barker (Mrs Malcolm Barker). An identical photograph is held in the Killie Campbell Africana Library under the reference Album...
Dates:
1949
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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Mopock (Ndebele) square house, 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305O/15
Scope and Contents
205 x 151 mm. The caption continues: 'showing a low wall round courtyard. On the road to Bronkhorstspruit, 1949.'
Dates:
1949
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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Mopock (Ndebele) square house - near Pretoria, 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305O/1
Scope and Contents
207 x 152 mm. The caption continues: 'The decorations are typical among these people, and are done by the women in earth colours and white-wash. Note the step-thatching. 1949'.
Dates:
1949
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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Mopock (Ndebele) village scene, near Bronkhorstspruit, 1930 - 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305O/20
Scope and Contents
130 x 86 mm.
Dates:
1930 - 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).
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Mopock (Ndebele) village scene, near Bronkhorstspruit, 1930 - 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305O/21
Scope and Contents
130 x 86 mm.
Dates:
1930 - 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).
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Mopock (Ndebele) village scene, near Pretoria, 1930 - 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305O/19
Scope and Contents
130 x 87 mm.
Dates:
1930 - 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).
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Mopock (Ndebele) village scene, near Pretoria, 1930 - 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305O/22
Scope and Contents
130 x 84 mm.
Dates:
1930 - 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).