Collection of monochrome postcards

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.

Collection of coloured postcards, publisher unknown.

Collection of coloured postcards, publisher unknown.

165 x 95 mm. Photograph of the painting by T.W. Bowler.

Collection of original prints inserted in issues of the monthly magazine, and one separately mounted (Y3059J). 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. A list of photographs published in the magazine is on pages 259-262 of Marjorie Bull and Joseph Denfield's 'Secure the shadow', though it is not entirely complete.

Collection of original prints inserted in issues of the monthly magazine, and one separately mounted (Y3059J). 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. A list of photographs published in the magazine is on pages 259-262 of Marjorie Bull and Joseph Denfield's 'Secure the shadow', though it is not entirely complete.

Collection of original prints inserted in issues of the monthly magazine, and one separately mounted (Y3059J). 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. A list of photographs published in the magazine is on pages 259-262 of Marjorie Bull and Joseph Denfield's 'Secure the shadow', though it is not entirely complete.

Collection of original prints inserted in issues of the monthly magazine, and one separately mounted (Y3059J). 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. A list of photographs published in the magazine is on pages 259-262 of Marjorie Bull and Joseph Denfield's 'Secure the shadow', though it is not entirely complete.

Collection of original prints inserted in issues of the monthly magazine, and one separately mounted (Y3059J). 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. A list of photographs published in the magazine is on pages 259-262 of Marjorie Bull and Joseph Denfield's 'Secure the shadow', though it is not entirely complete.

Collection of original prints inserted in issues of the monthly magazine, and one separately mounted (Y3059J). 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. A list of photographs published in the magazine is on pages 259-262 of Marjorie Bull and Joseph Denfield's 'Secure the shadow', though it is not entirely complete.

Collection of original prints inserted in issues of the monthly magazine, and one separately mounted (Y3059J). 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. A list of photographs published in the magazine is on pages 259-262 of Marjorie Bull and Joseph Denfield's 'Secure the shadow', though it is not entirely complete.

Showing the post cart in the road outside the Post Office, with an unidentified group, presumably post office employees, standing behind.

The caption reads 'The first newspaper at the Cape, published in 1800, was "The Cape Town Gazette and African Advertiser", which eventually became today's "Government Gazette"'.

The caption reads 'The first stone of the church in the Heerengracht (now Adderley Street), Cape Town, was laid in 1699'.

114 x 140 mm. Group portrait of Colonel Eustace, Captain Porter, Colonel Dupray and Colonel Tucker. Various handwritten annotations, in both ink and pencil, can be found on the reverse of the print. Photograph by Arthur Green.

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.

200 x 135 mm. Photograph of the painting by T. Baines.

The caption reads 'The Grand Parade and the Heerengracht (now Adderley Street) in 18th-century Cape Town'.

A half length, seated, studio portrait of Sydney Smith Bell. Bell (1805-1879) was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1839 and appointed a Puisne Judge at the Cape in 1851. He was Chief Justice of Cape Colony from 1868-73 and was the author of ‘The Colonial Administration of Great Britain’ (London 1859).

A half length, seated studio portrait of Hendrick Cloete. Born in Cape Town, Cloete (1792-1870) was educated in Holland at Groningen, Utrecht and Leiden, receiving his doctorate in law in 1811. After a period of study in London, he returned to Cape Town in 1813 and secured the appointment of Deputy Secretary to the Court of Justice. In 1845 he was made a Recorder in the Natal District Court and in 1855, 3rd Puisne Judge of the Cape Supreme Court. Photograph probably by Frederick York.

A view looking along the porticoed reading of the Public Library, with readers sitting at tables, staff beyond and a portrait of Queen Victoria hanging on the far wall. The library was opened by Prince Alfred on September 18 1860.

Entrance to the grounds, leading to the Hiddingh Hall Library building.

The caption reads 'The Martin Melck House, Cape Town, was built in 1782. This photograph of it was taken at the beginning of the 20th century'.

Showing the electro-plate candelabrum with a horseman at the base, presented by the merchants of Cape Town to the races of 1861.