Scope and Contents From the Fonds: An album recording the visit of Lord and Lady Hewart to South Africa. The album is inscribed 'To Lord and Lady Hewart: A Momento [sic] of a Trip to South Africa'. It was presumably the work and gift of a friend who travelled with them as it covers the entire journey from leaving Southampton to their return. The photographs are amateur work and are fully described in captions written in white ink, not always easily legible, on the black pages of the album. The captions have been recorded...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: An album recording the visit of Lord and Lady Hewart to South Africa. The album is inscribed 'To Lord and Lady Hewart: A Momento [sic] of a Trip to South Africa'. It was presumably the work and gift of a friend who travelled with them as it covers the entire journey from leaving Southampton to their return. The photographs are amateur work and are fully described in captions written in white ink, not always easily legible, on the black pages of the album. The captions have been recorded...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: An album recording the visit of Lord and Lady Hewart to South Africa. The album is inscribed 'To Lord and Lady Hewart: A Momento [sic] of a Trip to South Africa'. It was presumably the work and gift of a friend who travelled with them as it covers the entire journey from leaving Southampton to their return. The photographs are amateur work and are fully described in captions written in white ink, not always easily legible, on the black pages of the album. The captions have been recorded...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: An album recording the visit of Lord and Lady Hewart to South Africa. The album is inscribed 'To Lord and Lady Hewart: A Momento [sic] of a Trip to South Africa'. It was presumably the work and gift of a friend who travelled with them as it covers the entire journey from leaving Southampton to their return. The photographs are amateur work and are fully described in captions written in white ink, not always easily legible, on the black pages of the album. The captions have been recorded...

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80 x 85 mm. A view looking along a rocky coastline at Cape Town with houses perched near the sea shore.

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245 x 180 mm. A view looking southwards over the south western part of CapeTown, with Table Mountain, largely obscured by clouds, in the background. St. George's Cathedral, with the parliament buildings behind it, can be seen at the extreme left of the print. Table Bay is out of the picture to the left.

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540 x 132 mm. Three prints joined (the far left print is separate from the other two). A panoramic view looking south-east over Cape Town with Table Bay at the left and Devil's Peak in the background.

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76 x 50 mm. A view of (probably) Cape Town.

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64 x 49 mm. A view of (probably) Cape Town.

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78 x 52 mm. A building in front of a hill, possibly at Cape Town.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: An album recording the visit of Lord and Lady Hewart to South Africa. The album is inscribed 'To Lord and Lady Hewart: A Momento [sic] of a Trip to South Africa'. It was presumably the work and gift of a friend who travelled with them as it covers the entire journey from leaving Southampton to their return. The photographs are amateur work and are fully described in captions written in white ink, not always easily legible, on the black pages of the album. The captions have been recorded...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: An album recording the visit of Lord and Lady Hewart to South Africa. The album is inscribed 'To Lord and Lady Hewart: A Momento [sic] of a Trip to South Africa'. It was presumably the work and gift of a friend who travelled with them as it covers the entire journey from leaving Southampton to their return. The photographs are amateur work and are fully described in captions written in white ink, not always easily legible, on the black pages of the album. The captions have been recorded...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: An album recording the visit of Lord and Lady Hewart to South Africa. The album is inscribed 'To Lord and Lady Hewart: A Momento [sic] of a Trip to South Africa'. It was presumably the work and gift of a friend who travelled with them as it covers the entire journey from leaving Southampton to their return. The photographs are amateur work and are fully described in captions written in white ink, not always easily legible, on the black pages of the album. The captions have been recorded...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: An album recording the visit of Lord and Lady Hewart to South Africa. The album is inscribed 'To Lord and Lady Hewart: A Momento [sic] of a Trip to South Africa'. It was presumably the work and gift of a friend who travelled with them as it covers the entire journey from leaving Southampton to their return. The photographs are amateur work and are fully described in captions written in white ink, not always easily legible, on the black pages of the album. The captions have been recorded...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: An album recording the visit of Lord and Lady Hewart to South Africa. The album is inscribed 'To Lord and Lady Hewart: A Momento [sic] of a Trip to South Africa'. It was presumably the work and gift of a friend who travelled with them as it covers the entire journey from leaving Southampton to their return. The photographs are amateur work and are fully described in captions written in white ink, not always easily legible, on the black pages of the album. The captions have been recorded...

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In addition to the printed title, the annotation beneath the print, in pencil, reads: 'Junction with Hout St.'. The print is also initialled 'SA'.

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203 x 152 mm. A view looking along Adderley Street towards the post office, with trams and pedestrians in the roadway and a portion of the Grand Hotel visible in the foreground.

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Envelope containing monochrome postcards (set of twelve plus additional card) showing views in Cape Province.

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A collection of small images measuring 82 x 63 mm with captions on the prints. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Photographs by Charles F. Kimble and Sons.

Scope and Contents 211 x 146 mm. A view looking south-west along Adderley Street from the corner of the Parade near the railway station. At the left is the Parade with the Pagoda, Cape Town's first telegraph office, on the farther side and the offices of the 'Cape Argus' (see following print) and the Dutch Reformed Church beyond. On the right hand side commercial premises line Adderley Street with Stuford and Co and Crewes and Sons standing at the junction with Hout Street. In the foreground are piles of...

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194 x 138 mm. A view looking south across Cape Town towards Table Mountain with the old Malay cemetery in the foreground.

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A series of watercolours commissioned from the Rhodesian artist Mrs Gilbert Stephenson to be used in colouring lantern slides to illustrate the fifth handbook, A.J. Sargent, 'South Africa: seven lectures (London, 1914). Stephenson had been recommended by the British South Africa Company.

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Envelope containing monochrome postcards (set of twelve plus additional card) showing views in Cape Province.

Scope and Contents 460 x 29 cm. In 1841 it had been suggested that criminals from India might be brought to Cape Town, and in 1842 that young offenders might be more suitable, but both ideas had been opposed. Then, on 7th August 1848, Earl Grey, Secretary of State for the Colonies, sent a public despatch to the Governor of Cape Colony, Sir Harry Smith, in which he suggested men with tickets of leave might be a useful addition to the labour force and sought local views on the matter. Local reaction was...

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276 x 197 mm. A general view of the neatly laid out streets of Cape Town with Table Bay beyond. The remainder of the caption reads: '... Tygerberg Hills on right hand 12 to 14 miles off, foot of Signal Hill on left hand, from Blockhouse on Kloof Road on road to Camps Bay (about 600 ft above sea) looking North by east about ...'.