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Grahamstown (inhabited place)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:

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Boer War Memorial, Grahamstown, 1906

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059W/2
Scope and Contents 147 x 197 mm. A view of the War Memorial, which consists of a base and pedestal of white marble surmounted by bronze figures representing the angel of peace crowning a dying soldier with laurel leaves. On the pedestal is an inscription by Kipling: 'They came of that stubborn stock that stood at Runnimede forFreedom without fear,Wherefore they gave the treasure of their blood to stablishFreedom here.'and the dedication: 'To the brave men of Albany who died for...
Dates: 1906
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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Cartoon by L'ons, 1940 - 1989

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 113/102/5
Scope and Contents

A print of a cartoon entitled 'Triumphal entry of the L-t G-v-rn-r into Grahams Town'.

Dates: 1940 - 1989
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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Copy of journal 1838, 1838-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 217/2
Scope and Contents

A carbon copy of a typed transcript made from a microfilm of William Napier's journal by Professor Winifred Maxwell.

Dates: 1838-07
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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Diocese of Grahamstown: students of St Matthew's College, 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469F/435
Scope and Contents

125 x 79 mm. Group of Africans, mostly in cricket gear, and one European.

Dates: 1936
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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General view of Grahamstown, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 195/282
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

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.

Dates: 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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Graham’s Town, from the West, 1860

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305V/7
Scope and Contents

195 x 135 mm.

Dates: 1860
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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Graham's Town [i.e. Grahamstown] - Bathurst Street, 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305B/64
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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Graham's Town [i.e. Grahamstown] - Beaufort Street, 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305B/62
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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Graham's Town [i.e. Grahamstown] - cathedral, 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305B/18
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...
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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Graham's Town [i.e. Grahamstown] - High Street, 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305B/94
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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Graham's Town [i.e. Grahamstown] - Hill Street, 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305B/52
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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Grahamstown, 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089E/23
Scope and Contents

197 x 146 mm. A view showing the front of the post office in Grahamstown, with passers-by and a horse and carriage posed for the camera in front of the building. The settlement in the Thames district was founded at the start of the gold discoveries in the North Island in the early 1860s.

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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Grahamstown, Eastern Province, 1888

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305C/27
Scope and Contents

192 x 124 mm. A general view of Grahamstown with the spire of St. George's Cathedral prominent on the skyline at the left of the print.

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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Grahamstown, general view, 1900 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305J/26
Scope and Contents

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.

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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Journal 1838, 1838-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 217/1
Scope and Contents

A memorandum book of 75 pages with no formal title, describing a journey from Cape Town to Grahamstown, July 1838, concerned chiefly with transport problems and administrative matters.

Dates: 1838-07
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).
 Fonds

Journal of William Napier

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 217
Scope and Contents

A manuscript journal, a copy, and the script of a broadcast based upon it, with associated correspondence.

Dates: 1838-07 - 1967
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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Opening of the Cape Colonial Parliament, 1817 - 1866

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 343/39
Scope and Contents

'Opening of the Cape Colonial Parliament at Grahamstown, Eastern District', an engraving taken from a newspaper, undated.

Dates: 1817 - 1866
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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Unveiling of Boer War Memorial, Grahamstown, March 9 1906, 1906-03-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059W/1
Scope and Contents 295 x 241 mm. A view looking across Church Square at the junction of High Street with Bathurst Street. In the foreground crowds of spectators are gathered round the raised podium from which Sir Walter Hely-Hutchinson (Governor of Cape Colony 1901-10) surrounded by civic dignitaries, is giving the opening speech. Behind this group is the statue itself and in the background commercial premises on whose flat roofs are more spectators. The Town Hall and Settler's Tower are visible at the...
Dates: 1906-03-09
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).