190 x 132 mm. Showing a section of the jetty at the seaward end with boats hanging over the water from the pier and lighters and sailing vessels moored in the harbour beyond.

A newscutting dated in pencil 1866 comprised of an article on Port Elizabeth and an engraving.

A view looking along Main Street from Market Square, similar to Y305SV/6, but without the obelisk which was only erected in 1863. Photograph by J.E. Briton.

A view looking down on the North Jetty with a railway locomotive and trucks in the foreground, and wharves and the bay beyond.

192 x 125 mm. A view looking across a lawn and flowerbed towards the substantial stone built club premises.

A view looking along the Sea Walk with the beach on the left, 'This is a fine walk, and on Sundays and often during the week we have a band playing here. A part of the South Jetty may be seen on the left of the picture.'

188 x 134 mm. Showing the Market Square façade of the Town Hall, a two storey building with a porticoed entrance. The foundation stone was laid in 1858 by Sir George Grey and the building completed in 1862. A tower was later added to the building.

190 x 126 mm. A view looking across Market Square towards the Town Hall (completed in 1862), a solid stone building with a central clock tower. With a horse tram and hansom cabs in the square in the foreground.

192 x 128 mm. Showing a well-proportioned single storey stone building with a few figures posed near the central entrance.

98 x 139 mm. Showing a three storey stone building with cornices and elaborate sculptured pairs of columns between the windows. Judging by the tablet at the top of the building, which shows two figures operating a press, this is presumably the office of one of the Port Elizabeth newspapers.

192 x 134 mm. Showing a small stone church with a tower on the farther side. Building work can be seen in progress on the houses in the background.

138 x 97 mm. Showing commercial premises in Main Street with a span of oxen drawing a wagon in the foreground, In the centre of the print are the premises of Peter Finlay, proprietor of the ‘Goose and Gridiron’ at the junction with Rodney Street.

188 x 133 mm. A view looking towards the northern end of Port Elizabeth with the sea on the right and the outer suburbs of the town on the left. The railway line skirts the foreshore. In the left foreground is the Port Elizabeth Iron and Brass Foundry with the chimney of the gas works beyond. Photograph reproduced in Redgrave (p 136) and there dated 1878.

Collection of loose prints measuring approximately 105 x 80 mm., with extensive typewritten captions on a separate sheet. The captions have been used as titles and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of their creation. The captions from the album have been removed, and the longer descriptive extracts taken from the typewritten sheet (dated April 10 1898) are inserted with the photographs.

An album containing prints measuring approximately 190 x 130 mm without original captions. Most of the identifications were made with the aid of J.J. Redgrave's 'Port Elizabeth in bygone days,' (1947). Photographer unknown.

A collection of loose prints measuring approximately 210 x 155 mm or 150 x 105 mm, with handwritten captions on the reverse. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Photographs probably by Revd. Alfred Hall.

Showing a water trough surmounted by a statue showing a soldier offering a bucket of water to a horse.

189 x 134 mm. A view looking over the rooftops of Main Street with the sea beyond and the jetty visible in the distance.

202 x 138 mm. Showing sacks filled with wool in a large warehouse and a group of graders posed in the centre of the photograph.