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South Africa (nation)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 3622 Collections and/or Records:

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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
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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).
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Mopock (Ndebele) woman decorating her house, 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305O/17
Scope and Contents

181 x 176 mm. The caption continues: 'She uses a painter's brush and bricklayer's trowel. The painting is renewed after heavy rains. 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) woman working at her beads. Near Pretoria, 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305O/4
Scope and Contents

204 x 152 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) women and children, 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305O/3
Scope and Contents 204 x 151 mm. The caption continues: 'wearing heavily beaded necklaces, anklets and arm bands, which have a foundation of thick ropes of grass, with strings of beads turned round. Copper and brass rings are also worn, these denote wealth. They also wear beautifully patterned bead and string aprons. Note the striped blanket, typical, usually having about five wide stripes in very good colours. Their heads are shaven, with little tufts of hair in patterns. Near Pretoria. 1949'. Although...
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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[Morgenster, Stellenbosch district, built 1786], 1920 - 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059Y/20
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

A collection of high quality photographs, measuring 210 x 160 mm, mounted on black album sheets. They are uncaptioned but most have been identified from books on the Cape and on South African architecture; 25-31 are almost certainly photographs of Zulu peoples; the remainder are less clearly identified. Photographer unknown.

Dates: 1920 - 1930
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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Morning market at Port Elizabeth, 1866

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 343/37
Scope and Contents

An engraving taken from a newspaper dated in pencil 1866.

Dates: 1866
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).