South Africa (nation)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 3622 Collections and/or Records:
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Rocks near Ceres. North entrance of Mitchels' Pass [also spelt Mitchell's Pass]. River winding through. Jany 1867, 1867-01
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059A/42
Scope and Contents
248 x 196 mm. Showing sheer rocky crags at the entrance to Mitchels' Pass (Mitchell's Pass) with the (?) Dwars River below. Additional note by C.W. Busk: 'There was a branch line railway through this pass in 1914. Railway not completed beyond Wellington in 1867'.
Dates:
1867-01
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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Rocks near Ceres, Warm Bokkeveld, north entrance to Mitchel's Pass [also spelt Mitchell's Pass]. Pool in River winding through. Jany 1867, 1867-01
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059A/43
Scope and Contents
244 x 196 mm. Showing a pool surrounded by boulder-strewn hillside in Mitchel's Pass (Mitchell's Pass). Although the title appears to suggest otherwise, Mitchell's Pass is located between what are now called the Witzenberg Mountains and Hex River Mountains just to the west of Ceres. The area known as Warm Bokkeveld is located a few miles NNE of Ceres.
Dates:
1867-01
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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Rocks of the 'Valley of Desolation' - Graaff Reinet, 1900 - 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305J/51
Scope and Contents
153 x 111 mm. Showing one of the eroded outcrops of rock in the Valley of Desolation near Graaff-Reinet.
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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Roller, 1967-08
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham Z/1
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Fonds:
Slides of South Africa created by John Ewart Marnham, the British Consul-General in Johannesburg from 1967 to 1970. They are arranged in 10 groups (Q-Z). The earlier photographs (Q-S) however, date from a visit to what were then the High Commission Territories of Swaziland, Bechuanaland and Basutoland towards the close of 1965.The first photographs from Marnham's term of office in South Africa date from April 1967 and show scenes in the garden of his Johannesburg house, which...
Dates:
1967-08
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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Roller, 1967-08
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham Z/2
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Fonds:
Slides of South Africa created by John Ewart Marnham, the British Consul-General in Johannesburg from 1967 to 1970. They are arranged in 10 groups (Q-Z). The earlier photographs (Q-S) however, date from a visit to what were then the High Commission Territories of Swaziland, Bechuanaland and Basutoland towards the close of 1965.The first photographs from Marnham's term of office in South Africa date from April 1967 and show scenes in the garden of his Johannesburg house, which...
Dates:
1967-08
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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Roller, 1967-08
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham Z/3
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Fonds:
Slides of South Africa created by John Ewart Marnham, the British Consul-General in Johannesburg from 1967 to 1970. They are arranged in 10 groups (Q-Z). The earlier photographs (Q-S) however, date from a visit to what were then the High Commission Territories of Swaziland, Bechuanaland and Basutoland towards the close of 1965.The first photographs from Marnham's term of office in South Africa date from April 1967 and show scenes in the garden of his Johannesburg house, which...
Dates:
1967-08
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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Roller, 1967-08
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham Z/4
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Fonds:
Slides of South Africa created by John Ewart Marnham, the British Consul-General in Johannesburg from 1967 to 1970. They are arranged in 10 groups (Q-Z). The earlier photographs (Q-S) however, date from a visit to what were then the High Commission Territories of Swaziland, Bechuanaland and Basutoland towards the close of 1965.The first photographs from Marnham's term of office in South Africa date from April 1967 and show scenes in the garden of his Johannesburg house, which...
Dates:
1967-08
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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Roller, 1969-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham Z/32
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Fonds:
Slides of South Africa created by John Ewart Marnham, the British Consul-General in Johannesburg from 1967 to 1970. They are arranged in 10 groups (Q-Z). The earlier photographs (Q-S) however, date from a visit to what were then the High Commission Territories of Swaziland, Bechuanaland and Basutoland towards the close of 1965.The first photographs from Marnham's term of office in South Africa date from April 1967 and show scenes in the garden of his Johannesburg house, which...
Dates:
1969-12
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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Roman Catholic Chapel, Pietermaritzburg, 1875 - 1880
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305A/24
Scope and Contents
173 x 108 mm. Showing the small chapel with a more substantial residential building to the right. Exact location unidentified.
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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[Room at Kimberley mine], 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/9/33
Scope and Contents
78 x 52 mm. A group of people inside a room, probably at the Kimberley mine.
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).
File
Roosboom prayer meeting, 1963
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 218/6
Scope and Contents
Reports on the prayer meeting held on 1 September 1963; petitions; press cuttings; letter from the Northern Natal African Landowners' Association.
Dates:
1963
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Rorke's Drift, 1880
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305B/27
Scope and Contents
Showing a general view of Mission buildings. 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).
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Rorke's Drift from Zululand, 1879 - 1880
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3058A/36
Scope and Contents
195 x 134 mm. A view looking across the Buffalo River from Zululand into Natal with the road from Isandhlwana to Helpmakaar crossing the drift at the left of the print.
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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Rorke's Drift - scene of battle (Zulu War), 1880
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305B/28
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).
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Rorke's House, Rorke's Drift, 1879 - 1880
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3058A/35
Scope and Contents
208 x 131 mm. Showing the storehouse at Rorke's Drift which became the final stronghold after the hospital had been abandoned. Originally built by Jim Rorke, at the time of the campaign the buildings were occupied by a Swedish Missionary Otto Witt and his wife and child (Witt and his family had left, separately shortly before the Zulu attack), the storehouse seen here being his chapel and the hospital his living quarters. This week was taken some weeks after the fight, the solid,...
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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Rorke's House, Rorke's Drift, 1879 - 1880
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3058A/37
Scope and Contents
209 x 139 mm. A view from the Oskarberg Terraces looking northwest down onto the storehouse at Rorke's Drift with the foundations of the destroyed hospital buildings at the left. It was on the Oskarberg Terraces that the Zulus placed most of their available firepower, pinning down the defenders while their main body attacked the hospital and storehouse. The print is stamped 'Lloyd Artist Natal.' [James Lloyd]
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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Rothfelder's House. Kalk Bay - from the Beach. Telegraph pole and road in front. Dec'r 1866, 1866-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059A/30
Scope and Contents
207 x 157 mm. Showing the two storey thatched house, with a verandah running along the front façade on the first floor. With hillside rising in the background. A note in C.W. Busk's hand adds: 'The railway passes along the rocky beach, this side of the road and many houses close to it also, spoiling it from what it was in 1866.'
Dates:
1866-12
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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Round the Cape. Cape Peninsula Road, 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/9/3
Scope and Contents
75 x 52 mm.
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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Royal Engineers, 1880 - 1881
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3055A/36
Scope and Contents
190 x 142 mm. Showing a group of Royal Engineers posed in the eastern part of the camp.
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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[Royal Hotel, with a group of men on the stoop], 1873 - 1879
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3055B/23
Scope and Contents
152 x 120 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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Ruins at Junction of Lotsina [corrected in pencil to Lotsani] with Crocodile River, 1890
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052A/21
Scope and Contents
A similar view to Y3052A/20, showing the unidentified European seated on a rock in front of the same walls.
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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Ruins at Junction of Lotsina [corrected in pencil to Lotsani] with Crocodile River, 1890
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052A/20
Scope and Contents
Showing an unidentified European standing in front of the ruined walls.
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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Ruins at Junction of Lotsina [corrected to Lotsani] with Crocodile River, 1890
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052A/22
Scope and Contents
Showing three uniformed pioneers standing among the ruins also seen in Y3052A/20 and 21.
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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Ruins from Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) in South African Museum, 1902
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305I/22
Scope and Contents
74 x 101 mm. Showing a glass case in the museum containing spear heads and stone artefacts in the South African Museum in Cape Town.
Dates:
1902
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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S. African Air Force DH. 9, 1930
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/9/42
Scope and Contents
76 x 53 mm. A view of hills taken from a plane.
Dates:
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).