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Table Bay (bay)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:

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Album of coastal profiles

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 6
Scope and Contents Fifty-eighty pages of sepia drawings (12" x 6"), with captions and dates. The drawings give latitude and longitude, and appear to be competent renderings of coast profiles. The places featured include the Cape Verde Islands, Trinidad, Table Bay (including plan), Ceylon, Malaya and the East Indies, Macao, Sunda Straits, St Helena, Ascension and Britain. Some of the profiles, including those for Cape Town, Macao and Jamestown, St Helena, give details of buildings. None are signed, but...
Dates: 1783-12-30 - 1785-06-06
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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Cape Town, 1882 - 1884

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305K/25
Scope and Contents

540 x 132 mm. Three prints joined (the far left print is separate from the other two). A panoramic view looking south-east over Cape Town with Table Bay at the left and Devil's Peak in the background.

Dates: 1882 - 1884
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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Cape Town Bay and shipping ... Jany 1867, 1867-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059A/2
Scope and Contents

276 x 197 mm. A general view of the neatly laid out streets of Cape Town with Table Bay beyond. The remainder of the caption reads: '... Tygerberg Hills on right hand 12 to 14 miles off, foot of Signal Hill on left hand, from Blockhouse on Kloof Road on road to Camps Bay (about 600 ft above sea) looking North by east about ...'.

Dates: 1867-01
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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Cape Town. Table Mountain in background, 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305E/1
Scope and Contents

190 x 139 mm. A view looking back along Central Pier, which forms a continuation of Adderley Street out into Table Bay, towards Cape Town, with Table Mountain and the Lion's Head beyond. In the foreground a band plays on the pier, the building of which was started in 1912.

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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Capetown-bay and shipping and mouth of Salt River .... April 1867, 1867-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059A/3
Scope and Contents 242 x 177 mm. A view looking down over Cape Town and the sweep of Table Bay with the Tygerberg Hills (largely faded) in the distance. The Salt River Estuary can be seen at the right of the print. The remainder of the caption reads '... Tygerberg Hills on right hand 12 to 14 miles off (looking N by E abt.). Mountains in Koeberg Dist't in front. From Blockhouse on Kloof on road to Camps Bay, about 600 ft above sea ...'. This print forms an overlapping panorama with Y3059A/2 and the...
Dates: 1867-04
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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Departure of mail boat from Cape Town. In the shadow of Table Mountain, 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305E/12
Scope and Contents

203 x 152 mm. Showing the 'Windsor Castle' steaming out of Table Bay, with Table Mountain on the skyline.

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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From the top of Table Mountain, 1900 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305J/103
Scope and Contents

298 x 87 mm. A view looking down on to Cape Town and Table Bay with the Lion's Head and Rump, to the west of the city, at the left of the panorama. With a European figure standing among the rocks in the right 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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General Panoramic view of Cape Town and Bay, Tygerberg Hills behind, 1857 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059A/1
Scope and Contents

437 x 100 mm. (3 prints joined). A panoramic view looking approximately south-east over Cape Town from a viewpoint somewhere in the vicinity of Riebeeck Square. With Table Bay in the background and the Tygerberg Hills beyond.

Dates: 1857 - 1879
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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Panorama of Cape Town and Table Mountain, 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305D/26
Scope and Contents

232 x 115 mm. A view from the north looking over the city, with Table Bay at the left, and part of Table Mountain in the background.

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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Table Bay, 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 359/2/2/67
Scope and Contents

53 x 80 mm

Dates: 1942
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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Table Bay and the Devil's Peak from the top of Table Mountain, 1900 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305J/101
Scope and Contents

298 x 93 mm. A view looking northwards down on to the city of Cape Town and Table Bay, with the Devil's Peak appearing more prominently 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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Table Bay and the Devil's Peak from the top of Table Mountain, 1900 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305J/102
Scope and Contents

298 x 87 mm. A view looking northwards down on to the city of Cape Town and Table Bay, with the Devil's Peak appearing more prominently.

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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Table Bay Beach after a winter gale 17 May 1865 ['or 1866' crossed out], 1865-05-17

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059A/4
Scope and Contents

178 x 100 mm. Showing wrecked sailing ships beached on the shore at Cape Town after the storm of 17 May 1865 which destroyed one steamer and 36 other ships. In the foreground are the ramparts of the Imhoff Battery in the Castle: at the extreme right can be seen one of Anton Anreith's stone lions, a pair of which flanked the only gateway to Cape Town on the old road leading to the north. It was also a tollgate.

Dates: 1865-05-17
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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Table Bay , Cape Town, 1890 - 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305G/1
Scope and Contents

200 x 151 mm. A view looking down form the slopes of the Lion's Rump and across the city and Table Bay. The photograph was probably taken in about 1890, and is signed G.W.W.

Dates: 1890 - 1900
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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Table Bay in 1803, 1970

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 342/3/6
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

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.

Dates: 1970
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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Table Bay seen from the mountain, 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 359/2/2/66
Scope and Contents

53 x 80 mm

Dates: 1942
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).