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Eastern Cape, Province of (province)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 212 Collections and/or Records:

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Port Elizabeth - Main Street, 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305B/22
Scope and Contents

The print is not initialled but has the number '4' etched into the left hand corner.

Dates: 1880
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Port Elizabeth - Main Street, 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305B/79
Scope and Contents

A view taken from Main Street looking towards the Town Hall.

Dates: 1880
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Port Elizabeth, Main Street, 1900 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305J/22
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1900 - 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Port Elizabeth - Market Square, 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305B/51
Scope and Contents

The print is initialled 'SA'.

Dates: 1880
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Port Elizabeth - 'The Hill', 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305B/7
Scope and Contents

A view showing Port Elizabeth, with a grey institution in the foreground. The print is initialled 'SA'.

Dates: 1880
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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P.[ort] Elizabeth. The Main Street from the Town Hall, 1900 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305J/23
Scope and Contents

116 x 89 mm. A view looking back along Main Street with a tram and pony traps in the foreground.

Dates: 1900 - 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Port St. John's Cape, 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305E/48
Scope and Contents

202 x 148 mm. A view from a neighbouring hill looking down on the town and beach at Port St. John's on the south-eastern cape.

Dates: 1925
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Pulpit Rock, Southern bank of St John's, 1884-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305K/48
Scope and Contents

136 x 198 mm. A view from the Umzimvubu River looking across to the sheer cliff face of the Pulpit Rock.

Dates: 1884-06
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Queen Street, Port Elizabeth, looking north, 1906-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059Q/2
Scope and Contents

A view looking north along Queen Street from the junction with Holland Street, with commercial premises lining the roadway and tramlines along the street.

Dates: 1906-07
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Rocks of the 'Valley of Desolation' - Graaff Reinet, 1900 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305J/51
Scope and Contents

153 x 111 mm. Showing one of the eroded outcrops of rock in the Valley of Desolation near Graaff-Reinet.

Dates: 1900 - 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Scenes near Humansdorp: an African seated by the roadside , 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468N/513
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Collection of negatives, contact prints and enlargements. Mann travelled from London, which he left on 20 June 1935, via Egypt to the Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Belgian Congo, French Equatorial Africa and the Cameroons to South Africa, arriving in Johannesburg on 31 October. 1-516 are enlargements of Mann's photographs and 517-575 are photographic postcards, chiefly of the Sudan. In addition there is a box containing the original negatives 45 x 45 mm with contact prints, but these have...
Dates: Other: 1935
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Scenes near Humansdorp: Mann's car parked on open ground in front of woodland , 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468N/514
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Collection of negatives, contact prints and enlargements. Mann travelled from London, which he left on 20 June 1935, via Egypt to the Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Belgian Congo, French Equatorial Africa and the Cameroons to South Africa, arriving in Johannesburg on 31 October. 1-516 are enlargements of Mann's photographs and 517-575 are photographic postcards, chiefly of the Sudan. In addition there is a box containing the original negatives 45 x 45 mm with contact prints, but these have...
Dates: Other: 1935
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Smith Street, Aliwal North, S. Africa, 1900 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305J/77
Scope and Contents

204 x 152 mm. A view looking along the unsurfaced Smith Street with commercial premises on either side and spans of oxen moving along the roadway.

Dates: 1900 - 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Snow on the Katberg Moutains seen from the village of Balfour, 1900 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305J/143
Scope and Contents

194 x 146 mm. A view from Balfour in the eastern Cape looking across a wooded valley towards the snow covered peaks of the mountains (partially obscured by clouds).

Dates: 1900 - 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Somerset East, 1888

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305C/39
Scope and Contents

192 x 125 mm. A view looking along the tree-lined main street of Somerset East, with pedestrians in the roadway and a hill towering over the town in the background.

Dates: 1888
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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South African beauties, 1897 - 1898

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059N/11
Scope and Contents

Showing an African man and woman and two children.

Dates: 1897 - 1898
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Spandenkopf [Spandau Kop] seen from above the clouds, Division Graaff-Reinet, 1900 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305J/52
Scope and Contents

219 x 154 mm. Showing the summit of Spandua Kop in the Sneeuberg range appearing through a bank of cloud. An older print than the others in this collection and photographed from a neighbouring mountain.

Dates: 1900 - 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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St John's [Mzimvubu] River , 1900 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305J/168
Scope and Contents

149 x 109 mm. A view looking along the river with a small river steamer called 'Umzimvubu' moored in the left foreground.

Dates: 1900 - 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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St. Johns [Port Saint John's], 1900 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305J/167
Scope and Contents

154 x 106 mm. Showing the 'Gates' (the narrow channel between two rocky headlands) through which the Mzimvubu River passes to the Indian Ocean at Port Saint John's.

Dates: 1900 - 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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St. John's [Port Saint John's], 1900 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305J/169
Scope and Contents

154 x 106 mm. A view looking down on the sandy beach and headland with a few scattered homesteads behind the beach area.

Dates: 1900 - 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Tembu dance, 1900 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305J/160
Scope and Contents

154 x 109 mm. Showing a dancer carrying a heavily knobbed stick with a group of women in the background clapping time. Tembuland is in the southern Transkei.

Dates: 1900 - 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Tembu man, 1900 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305J/161
Scope and Contents

110 x 154 mm. A half length portrait of a Tembu man wearing metal arm rings, a tooth necklace and with a small leather pouch strung round his neck.

Dates: 1900 - 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Boer War Memorial, Grahamstown

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059W
Scope and Contents

Two prints, mounted on card stamped 'Hepburn and Jeanes' with captions which have been used as titles and recorded as found.

Dates: 1906
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Club, Graaff Reinet, 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305D/32
Scope and Contents

321 x 185 mm. A view from the street showing the single storey flat roofed building, with two groups of men watching the photographer from the stoep, roofed in decorative ironwork. With Spandau Kop in the background. The Graaff Reinet club was established in 1876; the building seen here in Church Square which still serves as the clubs's premises, was built in 1881.

Dates: 1880 - 1889
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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'The Glade' - Manubie Forest, Kenlain Wishiel, Transkei, 1900 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305J/99
Scope and Contents

205 x 151 mm. Showing a woodland road with figures and a cart loaded with wood in the middleground. The Manubi Forest is situated in the extreme north east corner of the Kentani District of the Transkei, just inland from Mazeppa Bay.

Dates: 1900 - 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).