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'A Hottentot [Khoikhoi] man and woman with a view of the Table Mountain and Cape Town at the Cape of Good Hope. Engraved by T. Wallis from an original picture by W.M. Craig. Publish[e]d by C. Brightly, T. Kinnersley, June 1864'.

Scope and Contents Ten volumes of cuttings from 'The field', including a few articles from other publications, and loose cuttings concerning the Malay Peninsula. The volumes concern countries throughout the world, but in particular Australia, British East Africa (Kenya), Canada, India, New Zealand, Nigeria, Rhodesia, South Africa, Uganda, United States and the West Indies. The articles cover a wide range of subjects, including administration, agriculture, the British Empire, climate, colonisation,...

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A collection of loose prints, most measuring approximately 85 x 55 mm, with handwritten captions beside the prints. Photographs probably by F. Walsh.

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'Cafers or Hottentots [Khoekhoe] assembled for the admission of their youth to the state of manhood at the Cape of Good Hope', an undated print of an engraving by Roberts.

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Readings for barometer, thermometer, wind direction and strength at Ookiep, Cape Colony, February-May, June-October and December 1885, and January and May, 1886. There is also a sheet showing rainfall for 1885.

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The caption reads 'By 1777 the Cape of Good Hope had become a busy port'.

Scope and Contents The early photographs in this section were taken during two visits to Kokstad in the east of the province; the first at the end of 1965 followed John Ewart Marnham's visit to Lesotho; the remainder dated August 1967. A number of purely family photographs have been removed. Following these are a number of scenes in the vicinity of Cape Town and along the southern coast - Somerset West, George, Knysa, Hermanus, the ostrich farm at Oudstchoorn, the mouth of the Storms River and nearby...

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Collection of loose coloured (80-88) and monochrome (89-98) postcards of Cape Province, by J.G.B, Spes Bona Series (80-83), T.D. Ravenscroft (84-87), Valentine and Sons (88-90), W.E. Courteney, East London (91), Stewart and Schaefer, Cape Town (92-94), unknown (95-98). Nos. 89-91 are original photographs.

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Envelope containing monochrome postcards (set of twelve plus additional card) showing views in Cape Province.

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Photographs and negatives of Eastern and Southern Africa.

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Photographs and negatives of Eastern and Southern Africa.

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Photographs and negatives of Eastern and Southern Africa.

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Photographs and negatives of Eastern and Southern Africa.

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205 x 139 mm. Showing Miss Rainier, wife of the Captain of H.M.S. Flora seated reading a book in the Commander's cabin.

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118 x 79 mm.

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112 x 79. Nine clergy.

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193 x 127 mm. Showing an African woman, dressed in loose woven cloth and turban, seated on the ground with a young child on her lap.

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'The log book of Capt. John Edwards, R.N. Given to Robert Stafford Edwards by his Aunt Miss Jane Edwards 1880. Solihull. Warwickshire.'

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194 prints of letters and other papers, 8½'' x 6½''. The majority of the items are letters sent to Macartney, 1796-1798. There are also some of his own letters and a 'Memorandum on the defence of the Cape', 1798. A few papers related to the Caribbean, 1779.

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An undated print of an engraving by Sherwin.

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75 x 52 mm.

Scope and Contents 70 x 92 mm. Oval print. Three quarter length portrait of Sir Edward George Grey seated with his elbow resting on a table. Grey entered the Army in 1829 and spent periods of exploration in Australia in 1837 and 1839-40. He was Lieutenant Governor of South Australia 1841-45, Governor of New Zealand 1846-54 and 1861-67, Governor of the Cape of Good Hope 1854-61 and Prime Minister of New Zealand 1877-79. This portrait is accompanied by a letter from Adolphe Beau of Forest Hill to the...

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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.

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An undated print of an engraving by John Pye from a picture by W.M. Craig.

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An undated print of an engraving by Rolfe from a picture by W.M. Craig.