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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'.

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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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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.