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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.

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Image by Valentine and Sons.

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.

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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.

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A photograph of a watercolour depicting a Roman Catholic cathedral in Cape Town. The size of the copy, 14" x 9¾", is identical to the original painting, which was presented to the Society by Miss M. Pigot Moodie in 1939, and sold through C.J. Sawyer in December 1975. Pencilled at the bottom of the picture is 'Roman Catholic Cathedral' and 'Bowler 1888'. Frank R. Bradlow, a writer on Bowler, considered the painting to be an authentic Bowler, and that the date was a later addition.

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A view looking towards a pontoon ferry on the Buffalo River which has just left its moorings with a load of oxcarts and passengers.

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99 x 64 mm. A view looking across Camps Bay, a suburb of Cape Town, towards the Twelve Apostles which drop sharply down to the water's edge.

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100 x 75 mm. Showing a large block of stone and various other artefacts in glass cases in the South African Museum in Cape Town.

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80 mm across. Copy A: decorative border around vignette is printed in blue with a mauve tinge; the leaf decoration within it, at corners, is printed in red. Copy B: the colours are reversed, and whilst the red appears the same shade, the blue is less mauve.

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76 x 101 mm. A view from Queen Victoria Street, looking towards the entrance gates and the west façade of the library, situated at the north-east end of the Botanical Gardens.

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59 x 80 mm. Showing a row of hansom cabs in front of the railway station at the corner of Grand Parade and Adderley Street.

Scope and Contents A half length studio portrait of Grey sitting in naval uniform. Grey (1805-1878) entered the Navy in 1819 and served on The South American Station 1821-1822 and in the Mediterranean 1823-1825. After further postings he served as Admiral Superintendent of the Bosporus and as a Lord of the Admiralty 1861-1866. He wrote 'On the Organisation of the Navy' (1860) and retired in 1870. This photograph dates from his period as Commander of the Cape and African Stations to which he was appointed in...

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53 x 80 mm

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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.

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99 x 73 mm. View of the Baker memorial to Rhodes at the foot of Table Mountain.

Scope and Contents 190 x 138 mm. Showing the memorial to Rhodes built by Herbert Baker at the foot of Table Mountain: 'Spread across the rugged slopes of Table Mountain near Cape Town, to which he and Rhodes shared a romantic attachment, the memorial sought to recreate an isolated Greek temple, that of Segesta, on the coast of Sicily. Four stepped platforms, flanked by eight sphinx-like lions, lead up to the temple, which contains in the central niche of the back wall a large head of Rhodes. For the...

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Image by Valentine and Sons.

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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.

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239 x 181 mm. A view looking across the rocky beach at Sea Point to the west of the city, towards the cluster of seaside houses (among them Queen's Hotel) beside the Beach Road.

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Collection of loose coloured (80-88) and monochrome (89-98) postcards of Cape Province, by J.G.B, Spes Bona Series (80-83), T.D. Ravenscroft (84-87), Valentine and Sons (88-90), W.E. Courteney, East London (91), Stewart and Schaefer, Cape Town (92-94), unknown (95-98). Nos. 89-91 are original photographs.

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77 x 52 mm. Probably at Cape Town.

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Collection of loose monochrome postcards of the Koopmans de Wet House in Cape Town. The house, originally lived in by Mrs Marie Koopmans de Wet, is a museum of South African national antiques.

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Collection of loose coloured (80-88) and monochrome (89-98) postcards of Cape Province, by J.G.B, Spes Bona Series (80-83), T.D. Ravenscroft (84-87), Valentine and Sons (88-90), W.E. Courteney, East London (91), Stewart and Schaefer, Cape Town (92-94), unknown (95-98). Nos. 89-91 are original photographs.

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A half length studio portrait of Grey seating resting an arm on a table. Grey (1812-1898) was commissioned into the army in 1829. He made two journeys of exploration in Australia in 1837 and 1839, and was Governor of South Australia 1841-1845; of New Zealand 1846-1854 and 1861-1867; and of the Cape of Good Hope 1854-1861. From 1870-1894 he lived in New Zealand and was Prime Minister 1877-1879. Another copy of this print can be found at Y3011T/10. Photograph probably by Frederick York.

Scope and Contents Photographic copy of a half length portrait of Sir John Wylde (1781-1859), Chief Justice of Cape Colony 1827-55. Photograph by Frederick York: 'The portrait of Sir John Wylde is photographed from the oil painting taken by Sir Martin Shee, in 1827. The original was one of the most successful portraits ever painted by that distinguished master. It is unfortunately, however, by no means well adapted for photographic copying; and all that the photographer has been able to render with tolerable...