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[Waterside view, showing Arthur Marnham].

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[Waterside view].

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[Waterside view].

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[Waterside view].

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277 x 215 mm. A view looking across the lake towards hills on the further shore. Hermanus is situated fifty five miles south east of Cape Town on Walker Bay.

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202 x 146 mm. A view from another angle showing the house seen in Y3059A/23 from the garden.

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205 x 146 mm. A view from the entrance driveway showing the house seen in Y3059A/23-24.

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205 x 147 mm. 29 Sep/65. A view looking along a drive towards a house, probably 'Herschel' but largely obscured by trees.

Scope and Contents 140 x 122 mm. A view of the verandahed house from the garden. The astronomer John Herschel (1792-1871) spent the years 1834-8 in the Cape, carrying out important work in the mapping of the stars of the southern hemisphere. During this period the Herschel family lived in an old Cape Dutch farmhouse called 'Feldhausen' in Claremont, which was purchased from one V.A. Schomberg in 1835. Schomberg was later permitted to build a house on one corner of the estate and this was named 'Herschel'. ...

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141 x 70 mm. Showing closely planted fir trees on the Herschel Estate. A note in C.W. Busk's hand adds: 'Had been cut down and left bare when visited in 1914'.

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138 x 66 mm.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A printed book containing tipped-in reproductions from photographs, all measuring 140 x 100 mm, with brief letterpress captions beneath the prints. The captions have been recorded as found and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. The prints are grainy with high contrast. Consequently, the images are listed rather than described in detail, although occasional notes and cross-references on points of interest have been added. The process used in the reproductions has not...

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197 x 142 mm. Showing workers carrying boxes of fruit to the door of a freight truck in south-west Cape Province.

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197 x 141 mm. Showing labourers at work in a field of vines, with baskets of grapes standing in the foreground.

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195 x 137 mm. Showing a row of large wooden trays filled with drying plums.

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A seated, three-quarter length studio portrait of Sir Philip Edmond Wodehouse (1811-1887), Governor of the Cape 1852-1870. Wodehouse's career started as a writer in Ceylon [Sri Lanka] in 1828 where he served until 1850. During 1851-1854 he was Superintendent in British Honduras and Governor of British Guiana during 1854-1861. After leaving the Cape he was Governor of Bombay 1872-1877.

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A photographic copy of a lithograph showing Prince Alfred Ernest Albert (1844-1900) standing against a background of cliffs. Educated for the Navy, Prince Alfred was commissioned into the ‘Euryalus’ in 1858 and while serving on the ship visited South Africa in 1860. During 1867-1871 he made a world cruise aboard ‘Galatea’ and commanded the Channel Squadron from 1883-1884. He was Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean from 1887-89 and at Devonport from 1890-1893.

Scope and Contents A half length seated studio portrait of Eldred Mowbray Cole (1811-?1876). Cole was educated at Westminster and commissioned into the Royal Irish Fusiliers (87th Foot) in 1828, serving with them in Ireland and Mauritius until 1836. He arrived at the Cape in 1838 intending to farm but lost most of his stock in a fire in Port Elizabeth. He was Civil Commissioner in Somerset East for a period in the mid 1840s and Tambrookie Commissioner from 1847-1849, taking up the Civil Commissionership and...

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A half length studio portrait showing Rivers seated in an armchair. Rivers (1785-1861) entered the home civil service of the East India Company in 1808 and came to the Cape in 1816 as acting Wharfmaster of Table Bay. He served as Landdrost of the Albany District 1821-1825 in which year he was relieved from his post and transferred to Swellendam. He was appointed Treasurer of Cape Colony in 1842 and Paymaster General in 1851.

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A half length studio portrait of Rawson seated at a table. Rawson (1812-1899) started his career as a junior clerk in the Board of Trade becoming President 1841-1842. From 1842-1844 he was Chief Secretary in Canada and from 1844-1854 Treasurer and Paymaster in Mauritius. He served in the Cape as Colonial Secretary from 1854-1864 and was Governor of the Bahamas 1864-1869 and of the Windward Islands 1869-1875. Photograph probably by Frederick York.

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A half length studio portrait. Porter (1805-1880) was called to the Irish Bar in 1831 and practiced there before becoming Attorney General at the Cape 1839-1866. He was on sick leave 1862-1864. He served on the Legislative Assembly 1869-1872 and left the Cape in the following year.

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A half length seated portrait of Sir Richard Southey. For another portrait of Southey see Y305L/21.

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159 x 113 mm. A view looking along the road towards a steel girder bridge which crosses the gorge at Hooge Kraal, approximately midway between George and Knysna.

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75 x 101 mm. A view from Grave Street showing the porticoed façade of the Houses of Parliament.

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Showing the classical portico of the Houses of Parliament.