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The caption reads 'The London Hotel, Greenmarket Square, Cape Town, was built during the first British Occupation'.

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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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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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101 x 75 mm. Showing a crowd of traders and shoppers clustered around open-air stalls in the foreground, with market buildings beyond. The market is situated south-east of the castle, off Sir Lowry Road.

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Image by Valentine and Sons.

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204 x 146 mm. Another view of the chapel seen in Y3059A/18.

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198 x 147 mm. Showing the small stone chapel standing in a clearing. The remainder of the caption reads '... Built by Archdeacon Thomas, near the Diocesan College. Chancel screen carved and made by Kaffirs at Zonnebloom (removed/1910) [C.W.B.]'.

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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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99 x 71 mm. A view from the road looking over iron railings towards the Mount Nelson Hotel, one of Cape Town's grandest hotels and built in 1897.

Scope and Contents A half length, seated studio portrait of Egidius Benedictus Watermayer (1842-1867), a Cape Judge, scholar and historian. Born in Cape Town, Watermeyer studied law at Leiden University from 1841-1843 and in London from 1843 until he was called to the Bar in 1847. He returned to practice in the Cape the same year. In 1854-1855 he represented the Worcester District in the Legislative Assembly and was appointed to the bench in 1857, serving on it until 1857 when he went to London on sick leave...

Scope and Contents 59 x 94 mm. A carte de visite three quarter length studio portrait of a woman standing beside a table, on which are a book and inkpots. This is most probably a portrait of Elizabeth Julie Dunn (nee Perchard, of Jersey), whom Dumm married in 1875. The backmark reads; 'From the photographic studio of James E. Bruton, photographer, Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope. Cartes de visite enlarged to life size and finished in colours. Marion, Imp, Paris'. The photograph was probably taken in the...

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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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Collection of coloured postcards, publisher unknown.

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Collection of coloured postcards, publisher unknown.

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Collection of coloured postcards, publisher unknown.

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Collection of coloured postcards, publisher unknown.

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Showing the entrance to the South African Museum in the Botanical Gardens.

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A photographic copy of a drawing of a Negretti Ewe.

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Photographic copy of a drawing of a Negretti Ram.

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202 x 151 mm. A view looking along a tree shaded avenue in Newlands, a suburb of Cape Town.

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Contains loose prints, some mounted, of events outside Malay but relating to it - visits of Malayan notables to the U.K., trade exhibitions, gatherings of the British Association of Malaysia and other events.

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99 x 72 mm. A view looking along the tree shaded avenue.

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Frome's original sketches of Kingston, Ontario, Canada, numbers 187, 189-91 and 196 were sold to the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, in 1975. Photographs of these sketches are stored at RCMS 40/3/15-19. Glass plates which had been made from several of Frome’s drawings of the Rideau Canal (missing when the collection arrived in Cambridge) have been reproduced on Cambridge Digital Library as Y3062T.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

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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80 x 105 mm. Informal group portrait. Presumably captioned on the reverse. The caption continues: 'Geoffrey W[illiams]; Mr W[illiams]; Miss B[ardswell]; H.F.W[ilson]; Mrs Williams; Mrs Horne; Mrs Perceval; Kitty. Amy and Col. Horne appear to have got outside the picture'. Amy Wilson stayed at Mount Nelson Hotel in Cape Town from 12-15 November. Several other passengers were fellow guests.