South Africa (nation)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 3622 Collections and/or Records:
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Main Street from Market Square, Port Elizabeth, 1865 - 1878
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059V/6
Scope and Contents
189 x 125 mm. A view looking along Main Street from Market Square, with a small section of the Post Office visible at the extreme right. In the right foreground stands the Obelisk, originally intended for a monument over the grave of Mr. G.T. Kemp, but owing to its size erected in the Market Square in 1863 where it stood for nearly 50 years (see Redgrave, p 405-6). Spans of oxen can be seen in Main Street with the square tower of the Congregational Church visible in the distance. At the left...
Dates:
1865 - 1878
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 Port Elizabeth
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Main street in Johannesburg, 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3055G/4
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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'Main Street' looking towards Market Square, 1897 - 1898
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059N/2
Scope and Contents
'The Town Hall at the end of the street is situated on one side of the square. The first Tram on the right hand corner is one of those which run from the extreme North to South end of the town, a distance of about 3 miles, whilst the second, or lower one, is one of those used for hill climbing.'
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Views in Port Elizabeth
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Main Street, near Market Square, 1897 - 1898
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059N/22
Scope and Contents
A similar view to Y3059N/2 but taken from nearer the Market Square.
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Views in Port Elizabeth
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Main street, Port Elizabeth, 1864
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 343/35
Scope and Contents
A colour engraving of a picture by T.W. Bowler published by Day & Son, Lithographers to the Queen, London, 1864.
Dates:
1864
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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Commonwealth engravings
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Main Street, Port Elizabeth, 1888
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305C/16
Scope and Contents
190 x 124 mm. A view looking along Main Street, lined with commercial premises and with oxcarts standing along its length, towards Market Square and the Town Hall.
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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Main Street, Port Elizabeth, 1865 - 1878
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059V/14
Scope and Contents
189 x 132 mm. Showing a section of Main Street with spans of oxen on the roadway in the foreground. At the right are the offices of the ‘Port Elizabeth Telegraph’ at 42 Main Street. A few doors down is the building seen in Y3059V/9.
Dates:
1865 - 1878
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 Port Elizabeth
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Main Street, Port Elizabeth, 1865 - 1878
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059V/18
Scope and Contents
191 x 134 mm. Showing commercial premises on main Street at its junction with Kemp Street.
Dates:
1865 - 1878
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 Port Elizabeth
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Main Street, Port Elizabeth looking south, 1906-07
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059Q/1
Scope and Contents
A view looking south along Main Street with commercial premises lining the roadway and a tram on the street.
Dates:
1906-07
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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Maize, 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305E/76
Scope and Contents
203 x 151 mm. Showing tall maize plants growing in a field. Exact location unknown.
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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Major [Arthur] Bailey (Adjutant) South Lancashire Regiment; Captain Kincaid Smith, RE, Commissioner, Vryheid, 1901
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3058H/32
Scope and Contents
95 x 115 mm.
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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'Major Buller's camp', Dec. 1878
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 191/4
Scope and Contents
The caption reads, 'Frontier Light Horse on the border of Zululand at Eland's Nék December 1879 [1878] waiting to advance into Zululand to join Colonel Wood’s No. 4 Column at Utrich on the 1st January l879, when I was transferred to the Royal Artillery under Major Trimlet'.
Dates:
Dec. 1878
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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Major [Frederick] Adam, 1901
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3058H/70
Scope and Contents
115 x 95 mm. Seated on a chair outside a building.
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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Major (later Lieut. Col. A.O.L. Kindersley, 1890 - 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3055C/11
Scope and Contents
A half length portrait of Archibald O.L. Kindersley (1869-1955) in military uniform. He served in the West African Brass River Expedition 1895; the South African War 1900-02; as Honarary attaché to the British Embassy in Tokyo 1911-13; and in the First World War 1914-19 (Salonika 1916-19); probably around the turn of the century he was employed in the Department of Native Affairs, Johannesburg.)
Dates:
1890 - 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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Major Le Mesurier R.E., Commandant, and Volunteer Officers of Convent Redoubt, 1880 - 1881
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3055A/38
Scope and Contents
191 x 142 mm. A group portrait showing Major Frederick Le Mesurier seated among a group of volunteer officers in front of a sandbagged building in Convent Redoubt.
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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Majuba Hill from Mt Prospect Railway Station, 1928-07-01
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 353/2/53
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Album of mostly 80 x 54 mm prints. There is a brief list describing items 1-98, which document the trip from Southampton to South Africa, travel in South Africa, and the visit to Southern Rhodesia. Many photos do not appear in the exact numerical order given in the listing. The rest of the images are uncaptioned, but their general locations have been identified by reference to the diary RCMS 353/1.
Dates:
1928-07-01
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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Making dam, Vryheid Hill, 1901
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3058H/68
Scope and Contents
115 x 95 mm. Showing a party of soldiers at work.
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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Making loaf sugar, 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305E/101
Scope and Contents
203 x 152 mm. Showing two African workers feeding sugar into loaf making machinery.
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).
Item
Makwelane player, Melmoth, Zululand, 1949
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 211/5
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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Mala : buffalo, 1969-02
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham Y/93
Scope and Contents
From the File:
John Ewart Marnham had admirable opportunities for photographing flora and fauna during his stay in South Africa and in this section his own arrangement under species has been largely followed; the divisions are: lions, cheetahs, elephants, rhinos [rhinocesaurus] and hippos [hippopotamus], zebras, giraffes, buffalos, kudu, other deer and miscellaneous. Most of these animals were photographed in national parks and game reserves, though not all slides have specific locations. The main parks...
Dates:
1969-02
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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Mala : buffalo, 1969-02
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham Y/94
Scope and Contents
From the File:
John Ewart Marnham had admirable opportunities for photographing flora and fauna during his stay in South Africa and in this section his own arrangement under species has been largely followed; the divisions are: lions, cheetahs, elephants, rhinos [rhinocesaurus] and hippos [hippopotamus], zebras, giraffes, buffalos, kudu, other deer and miscellaneous. Most of these animals were photographed in national parks and game reserves, though not all slides have specific locations. The main parks...
Dates:
1969-02
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).
Item
Mala : buffalo, 1969-02
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham Y/95
Scope and Contents
From the File:
John Ewart Marnham had admirable opportunities for photographing flora and fauna during his stay in South Africa and in this section his own arrangement under species has been largely followed; the divisions are: lions, cheetahs, elephants, rhinos [rhinocesaurus] and hippos [hippopotamus], zebras, giraffes, buffalos, kudu, other deer and miscellaneous. Most of these animals were photographed in national parks and game reserves, though not all slides have specific locations. The main parks...
Dates:
1969-02
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).
Item
Mala : buffalo, 1969-02
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham Y/96
Scope and Contents
From the File:
John Ewart Marnham had admirable opportunities for photographing flora and fauna during his stay in South Africa and in this section his own arrangement under species has been largely followed; the divisions are: lions, cheetahs, elephants, rhinos [rhinocesaurus] and hippos [hippopotamus], zebras, giraffes, buffalos, kudu, other deer and miscellaneous. Most of these animals were photographed in national parks and game reserves, though not all slides have specific locations. The main parks...
Dates:
1969-02
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).
Item
Mala : buffalo, 1969-02
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham Y/97
Scope and Contents
From the File:
John Ewart Marnham had admirable opportunities for photographing flora and fauna during his stay in South Africa and in this section his own arrangement under species has been largely followed; the divisions are: lions, cheetahs, elephants, rhinos [rhinocesaurus] and hippos [hippopotamus], zebras, giraffes, buffalos, kudu, other deer and miscellaneous. Most of these animals were photographed in national parks and game reserves, though not all slides have specific locations. The main parks...
Dates:
1969-02
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).
Item
Mala Butterfly, 1969-02
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham U/72
Scope and Contents
From the File:
The majority of these were taken in the north of the province; at Magoebaskoof (two visits); Tzaneen (including a sequence showing sisal growing and processing); Vendaland in the extreme north and a few coming south to Orhigstad and Graskop. A group taken at Mala Mala camp is assumed to be in the Transvaal, though the precise location has not been found. The section concludes with a visit to a fishing lodge at Dulstroom in December 1969.
Dates:
1969-02
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).