Eastern Cape, Province of (province)
Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:
Aliwal North, corner of the Market Place, 1900 - 1910
190 x 144 mm. Showing the market square at Aliwal North with a bullock team and wagon in the foregrond. Founded in 1849, the town is situated on the Orange River and takes its name from the Battle of Aliwal, fought in India in January 1846 during the First Anglo-Sikh War.
Buffalo River and Harbour, East London, 1900 - 1910
287 x 172 mm. A view looking down on the Buffalo River and wharves at East London, with two steamers moored in the foreground and the sea in the distance.
Burghersdorp, general view, 1900 - 1910
20 x 136 mm. A view looking over small homesteads and gardens with the Stormberg Mountains in the background. Founded in 1844, the town was originally called Kupdrift.
Cape Govt. [i.e. Government] Railways Dining saloon train. Interior of the dining saloon, 1900 - 1910
195 x 148 mm. A view looking along the wood panelled saloon car interior with tables laid for a meal.
Cradock, street in, 1900 - 1910
196 x 121 mm. Showing the main street in Cradock (on the Great Fish River 120 miles north of Port Elizabeth) with the Masonic Hotel in the foreground and the church beyond.
East London, the Town Hall, 1900 - 1910
191 x 143 mm. Showing the East London Town (now City) Hall, a verandahed stone building with a clocktower set at one corner. Designed by Edwin Page in 1893 and completed in 1899, it is situated between Argyle and Buxton Streets.
Grahamstown, general view, 1900 - 1910
281 x 186 mm. A view from a field beside the road which leads into the High Street. A prominent landmark is Church Square with the Tower of St. George's Cathedral on the left and that of the Town Hall on the right. On the High Street at the nearer end of Church Square is the Railway Hotel.
King William's Town, Market Place, 1900 - 1910
196 x 129 mm. Showing the unsurfaced market square in King William's Town with outspanned ox teams and wagons in the centre.
Molteno. Early morning at the coal mines, 1900 - 1910
193 x 142 mm. Showing African labourers gathered around a cooking pot outside stone huts. Coal mining activity which was started in the area in 1859: the better quality coal from the Transvaal and Natal [KwaZulu-Natal] soon destroyed the foundations of the industry.
Molteno. Entrance to a coal mine, 1900 - 1910
163 x 144 mm. Showing African workers pushing trolleys of excavated material up a railway track leading from the mines.
Port Elizabeth, Main Street, 1900 - 1910
112 x 92 mm. A view looking along Main Street, Port Elizabeth, with a tram and a pony trap in the foreground. Electric trams were introduced in Port Elizabeth in 1897. At the far end of Main Street the Town Hall can be seen.
P.[ort] Elizabeth. The Main Street from the Town Hall, 1900 - 1910
116 x 89 mm. A view looking back along Main Street with a tram and pony traps in the foreground.
Uitenhage, Town Hall and Dutch Church, 1900 - 1910
196 x 145 mm. A view looking along a tree-lined avenue in Uitenhage with the towers of the Town Hall and the Dutch Church on the far side of the street.
View of train on the narrow gauge (2 feet) railway between P.[ort] Elizabeth and Humansdorp, 1900 - 1910
194 x 124 mm. A view looking along the narrow track towards an oncoming steam locomotive drawing freight trucks. Humansdorp lies about 50 miles west of Port Elizabeth near St. Francis Bay.
View showing the raliway line in Alicedale Poort, 1900 - 1910
208 x 148 mm. A view looking along a steeply sided valley, with the railway following the course of the Bushman's River on the valley floor. Alicedale is situated about 25 miles west of Grahamstown.