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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.

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

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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"'.

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

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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.

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203 x 152 mm. A view looking along the road which follows the seashore around the Cape Peninsula. The photograph probably shows the Victoria Road in the Camps Bay area.

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

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Collection of monochrome postcards. Published by H.S. Joseph, The Handy House, Kynsa.

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Collection of monochrome postcards. Published by H.S. Joseph, The Handy House, Kynsa.

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199 x 152 mm. Showing Groot Constantia, the gabled Cape Dutch manor south of Cape Town, built by Simon van der Stel in1692 and lived in by him in his retirement from 1699 until his death in 1712. Since the early days Constantia had an international reputation for its wine and part of the vintage was reserved for the Dutch East India Company. The building was destroyed by fire in 1925 but rebuilt on the original ground plan.

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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).

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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.

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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.

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

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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'.

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

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Collection of monochrome postcards. Published by H.S. Joseph, The Handy House, Kynsa.

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Collection of monochrome postcards. Published by H.S. Joseph, The Handy House, Kynsa.

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A general view of the newly completed Somerset Hospital at Green Point, with part of Table Mountain visible in the background.

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A three-part series of black and white images on card designed to provide teachers with material to illustrate history lessons. The series includes a wide range of pictures, portraits and photographs. Titles and captions have been recorded as found and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. The items are undated, but probably originate from between the 1960s and 1980s.

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75 x 100 mm. A view looking across Adderley Street towards the Post Office.

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A half length seated studio portrait of Bishop Charles Frederick Mackenzie (1825-1862) in clerical robes. Mackenzie came to the Cape as Bishop Colenso's archdeacon in 1855 . In 1858 he was supervising a mission station on the Umthali River and in 1861 was consecrated Bishop of Central Africa. He died the following year at his mission at Malo. Photograph probably by Frederick York.

Scope and Contents A portrait group showing Queen Victoria and Prince Albert and eight children posed on a patio at Osborne House. The children in the group are Princess Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa (1840-1901); Prince Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (1841-1910); Princess Alice Maude Mary (1843-1878); Prince Alfred Ernest Albert (1844-1900) (see also Y3059G/3); Princess Helena Augusta Victoria (1846-1923); Princess Louisa Caroline Alberta (1848-1939); Prince Arthur William Patrick Albert (1850-1942); Prince...

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'A Green, phot. The Royal Observatory - Cape of Good Hope. Presented to the Subscribers of the Cape Monthly Magazine - August 1861'. A view looking across the Salt River Marsh to the Observatory.

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A view showing the cluster of single storey wooden buildings of the Sanatorium at Wynberg, probably only recently constructed when this picture was taken.