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Title: Highlands, Simon's Town
Subject: Cluster housing--Landscape architecture--South Africa--Simon's Town--Designs and plans,
Description: Highlands, Simon's Town. Landscape site development plan, with proposed plant list (for proposed property development consisting of eight houses)., Original hand-drawn in ink on tracing paper., Plan: scale 1:200
Identifier: islandora:22463

Title: House Garratt, Simon's Town
Subject: Dwellings--Landscape architecture--South Africa--Simon's Town--Designs and plans.,
Description: House Garratt, Simon's Town, Cape Peninsula. Two site sections (revised proposal). Original drawing in ink on tracing paper., Sections: scale 1:100
Identifier: islandora:22480

Title: C.G.R. King Williams Town London-Peddie railway. Plan shewing route, to accompany H. H. Elliott's report dated 1st May 1896
Subject: Railroads--South Africa--King William's Town--Maps, Railroads--South Africa--Peddie--Maps, ,
Description: A map showing the proposed railway route from King William's Town to Peddie, passing farms, Kaulela's Location, a police reserve, a military reserve, villages, Siwani's Location and Jan Tshatshu Location, with roads and rivers, an outspan and a racecourse. Kwekazi's Location, Kama's Location and Toise's Location are also shown. Some colour. Scale 1 inch to 2 miles. Map takes up one third of the sheet. The rest is taken up by 'Sketch shewing approximate average grades, distances compiled from rough notes taken from cart along main road.'
Identifier: islandora:25085

Title: [Map showing location of various villages, towns, and rest camps], Map item #33
Subject: San (African People), Northern Cape (South Africa)--Maps,
Description: An untitled map showing the location of several San villages as well as small towns and rest camps in the Northern Cape, South Africa
Identifier: islandora:27348

Title: Kingwilliams Town
Subject: South African War, 1899-1902 -- Maps., Kingwilliam's Town Region (South Africa) -- Maps., Eastern Cape (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: This map forms part of the Imperial map of the Cape Colony., The map shows grand trunk roads, trunk roads, branch roads, farm roads, rivers, hills, pans, railways, telegraph lines, homesteads, farm boundaries and divisional boundaries in the Kingwilliam's Town area., Relief shown by hachures., The Imperial map of the Cape Colony was "compiled by the Field Intelligence Division or Department of the British Army in Cape Town during the second Anglo-Boer War. ... [P.H. du P.] Casgrain ... superintended its production ..." (Board, C. "Certainly better than nothing at all" : a re-examination of the Imperial map of South Africa 1899-1902. Proceedings of the 21st International Cartographic Conference, Durban, 2003. Available online: http://icaci.org/files/documents/ICC_proceedings/ICC2003/Papers/109.pdf (accessed 5 Sept. 2012))., "This map is not to be considered as absolutely accurate"., Projection not given., Printed in black and red., Map folds into an outer cover., Part of the map is shown as an inset., The map is mounted on linen.
Identifier: islandora:24836

Title: C.G.R. King Williams Town-Peddie railway
Subject: Railroads--South Africa--Peddie--Maps, Railroads--South Africa--King Wiliam's Town--Maps, ,
Description: In two parts: 'Plan shewing route,' and 'Sketch shewing approximate average grades, distances compiled from rough notes taken from cart along Main Road.' Scale horizontal 1 inch to 4 miles. Scale vertical 1 inch to 200 feet. Map of proposed route from Peddie to King William's Town shows Kwekazi's location, Kaulela's location, Kama's location, Toise's location and Siwani's location, with farms, villages, police reserve, military reserve, roads and rivers. Some colour. Scale 1 inch to 2 miles.
Identifier: islandora:25098

Title: Children in 'white' town
Subject: gunsChildren, White--Namibia, Weapons
Description: Children holding a gun.
Identifier: islandora:8393

Title: Council flats, Kew Town
Subject: Poor children--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Public housing--South Africa, Dwellings--Social aspects--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: Children play outside their council flat homes.
Identifier: islandora:5711

Title: Trenance farm, Verulam town
Subject: Botany--South Africa, Plants--South Africa, ,
Description: Trenance farm, Verulam town
Identifier: islandora:9801

Title: Africa : communications and towns
Subject: Railroads--Africa--Maps, Steamboat lines--Africa--Maps, Cities and towns--Africa--Maps, Africa--Maps,
Description: Map of Africa showing communication and transportation routes throughout the continent linking selected African cities and towns. The map depicts both railways and steamer routes.
Identifier: islandora:30109

Title: Trenance farm, Verulam town
Subject: Botany--South Africa, Plants--South Africa, ,
Description: Trenance farm, Verulam town
Identifier: islandora:9797

Title: Division of Hope Town--[cartographic material].
Subject: Hopetown (South Africa)--Maps.
Description: Map of the division of Hope Town showing the town of Hope Town, divisional and field cornetcy boundaries, farm boundaries, farm names and property numbers. Also shown are railways and railway stations, roads, commonages, outspans, powder magazines, rivers, dams, vleis and pans., Projection not given. Co-ordinates not given. Bar scale in Cape roods and English miles.
Identifier: islandora:19605

Title: Belgium Biko, Steve Biko's brother, King William's Town, 1997
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Truth and Lies,
Description: Belgium Biko, the younger brother of Steve Biko, at the Biko family home, Ginsburg location, King William's Town, 1997. Steve Biko, the leader of the Black Consciousness movement, died in Pretoria on 12 September 1977. He was beaten into a coma during interrogation by security officers. The inquest found that Biko had died of head injuries inflicted over a period of several days during his detention. Five security policemen came forward to confess to the assault in 1997. The application for amnesty was successfully opposed by the Biko family.
Identifier: islandora:792

Title: Trenance farm, Verulam town
Subject: Botany--South Africa, Plants--South Africa, ,
Description: Trenance farm, Verulam town
Identifier: islandora:9798

Title: Albertyn's Cottage, Simon's Town
Subject: Cottages, Albertyn's Cottage (Simon's Town, South Africa), Historic buildings--Landscape architecture--South Africa--Simon's Town--Designs and plans,
Description: Albertyn's Cottage, Simon's Town. Landscape sketch-plan of Albertyn's Cottage and Albertyn's Stables., Original, hand-drawn in ink on tracing paper., Plan: scale 1:100
Identifier: islandora:22239

Title: C.G.R. Flying survey : Fort Beaufort-King Williams Town, 1896
Subject: Railroads--South Africa--Fort Beaufort--Maps, Railroads--South Africa--King William's Town--Maps, ,
Description: Map showing proposed railway line from Fort Beaufort to King William's Town, passing Alice, Fort Hare, Ann Shaw village and Dikidikana and connecting with the existing railway from East London, with rivers, roads, commonage, farms, native locations, Perie and Mazingata's Village. Some colour. Scale 1 inch to 1 mile.
Identifier: islandora:25095

Title: Ngive (a border town in Southern Angola) in ruins after the withdrawal of troops from the South African Defence Force in 1990.
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Buildings--War damage--Angola--Cunene (Province),
Description: Ngive, a town in the Cunene Province of Angola is deserted and ruined after the withdrawal of troops from the South African Defence Force in 1990.
Identifier: islandora:7077

Title: Chunya mining town
Subject: Nyakyusa (African people), Ethnology--Tanzania--Chunya District, Chunya District (Tanzania)--Rural conditions, Nyakyusa (African people)--Dwellings, Streets--Tanzania--Chunya District
Description: Ridge's garage and the main street of the mining town of Chunya on the Lupa goldfields. Leonard Mwaisumo spent two months working as a clerk in Chunya before working for the Wilsons. Monica and Godfrey Wilson did a month of fieldwork there. Photograph taken in June 1937 by Godfrey Wilson as a lone anthropologist during his first five months of fieldwork (August-December 1934)
Identifier: islandora:5657

Title: Albertyn's Cottage, Simon's Town
Subject: Cottages, Albertyn's Cottage (Simon's Town, South Africa), Historic buildings--Landscape architecture--South Africa--Simon's Town--Designs and plans,
Description: Albertyn's Cottage, Simon's Town. Landscape sketch-plan of Albertyn's Cottage and Albertyn's Stables., Tracing paper copy of original drawing., Plan: scale 1:100
Identifier: islandora:22240

Title: Albertyn's Cottage, Simon's Town
Subject: Cottages, Albertyn's Cottage (Simon's Town, South Africa), Historic buildings--South Africa--Simon's Town--Designs and plans,
Description: Albertyn's Cottage, Simon's Town. Base drawing of Albertyn's Cottage and Albertyn's Stables. Conceptual site layout plan., Original, hand-drawn in ink on tracing paper., Plan: scale 1:100
Identifier: islandora:22238

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