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Title: North east escarpment
Subject: Grassland, Mesic Highveld Grassland, , ,
Description: Location: Northeast escarpment; exact location unknown. Grid square coverage uncertain., Ecology: Fynbos, forest, grassland amd plantations.
Identifier: islandora:10516

Title: Policemen clear rocks and other debris off a road, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Barricades (Military science), Demonstrations, Law enforcement
Description: Riot police clear a crude road block in Duinefontein Road, near Manenberg, yesterday, after a group African youths had thrown concrete blocks and rocks into the road.
Identifier: islandora:16262

Title: Interior of a house
Subject: Pondo (African people), Ethnology--South Africa--Pondoland, Eastern Cape (South Africa)--Rural conditions, Pondo (African people)--Dwellings, Interior decoration--South Africa--Pondoland
Description: Interior of what is probably a round square house in Pondoland. Notice the grinding stone on the bottom left and the picture on the wall.
Identifier: islandora:5428

Title: Catch IX
Subject: Botany--South Africa--Kwazulu-Natal, Botany--Drakensberg Mountains, ,
Description: Cathedral Peak Research
Identifier: islandora:8799

Title: Antimima solida (L.Bolus) H.E.K.Hartmann
Subject: South Africa--Northern Cape, Province of--Little Namaqualand, Aizoaceae--South Africa--Northern Cape--Pictorial works, Botany--South Africa--Northern Cape--Pictorial works, Vygie
Description: Botanical illustration - coloured - Antimima solida. Drawings of fruit and leaves included. From a collection made between Bitterfontein and Garies by Leighton and Lewis (50, National Botanical Garden 2122/32).
Identifier: islandora:22795

Title: Norma Nabe of Cape Town A[dvice] O[ffice] at her desk 1993, Mowbray
Description: Athlone Advice Office, Black Sash. Norma Nabe at her desk, 1993
Identifier: islandora:6549

Title: Aerial view, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Urban areas, Infrastructure, Land, Urban development, Buildings
Description: The view of Cape Town, looking in a south-easterly direction, is another of the series taken by The Argus photographer from the top of recently completed 300ft. chimney at the Dock-Road power station. In the centre of the picture are the railway motor transport sheds and marshalling yards, and to the right of them monument station, the goods yards and part of the main station. The Grand Boulevard, which is planned as the main road link with the southern suburbs, will join Adderley Street at the extreme left of the picture, and where the fun fair appears in the photograph, the 1,000,000 Van Riebeeck Hotel will be built.
Identifier: islandora:15110

Title: Protesters against the development of District Six, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Housing, Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: Picket line ... Protestors line the owner of Lower Burg and Riebeeck streets yesterday during a legal lunch-time protest against the development of District Six. The protesters later confronted Iico management, one of the companies proposing to build houses in the district.
Identifier: islandora:17762

Title: Mass baptism
Subject: Shembe Church ; Zulu (African people)--Religion, Marinovich african spirituality
Description: Members of the Gauteng branch of the Nazareth Baptist Church, or Shembe, come to the Klip River in Soweto for baptism. Shembe is a staunchly traditionalist Zulu cult that was founded in 1913 by Isaiah Shembe after a vision. Their beliefs are a mix of Old and New Testament and the ancestral veneration of traditional Zulu culture.
Identifier: islandora:7400

Title: Steinkopf restaurant
Subject: Diners (Restaurants)--South Africa--Namaqualand, Automobiles--South Africa--Namaqualand,
Description: Outside a small restaurant in Steinkopf.
Identifier: islandora:5033

Title: Orange River irrigation schemes : plan to illustrate the reports of inspection made by A. S. le Roex and H. C. Litchfield of the Public Works Department, October, 1896
Subject: Irrigation--South Africa--Northern Cape--Maps, Orange River--Maps,
Description: A map showing Government lands, farms and irrigable lands along the Orange River from the border with German territory, along the border with Bechuanaland and the Division of Hay above the river, Kenhardt, Prieska and Hope Town below the river, with other rivers. Some colour. Scale 1 2/8 inch to 10 miles.
Identifier: islandora:25101

Title: Two children wrapped in blanket
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, indigenous, San, youth, children, blanket, tree, sand, morning, Children, San--Namibia, Trees--Namibia, Otjozondjupa (Namibia)
Description: Two children wrapped up in a blanket, sheltering from the cold of an early morning. In the background is a large tree. Bushmanland, Namibia.
Identifier: islandora:12108

Title: Of darkness and the heart - Four poems of Fiona Zerbst (1. Writing at Night)
Subject: Hofmeyr, Hendrik. Of darkness and the heart, Zerbst, Fiona--Musical settings., Songs (High voice) with piano., String quartets (Violins (2) , violas, cello), Concerts--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: Hendrik Hofmeyr: Of darkness and the heart, Baxter Concert Hall, Cape Town, South Africa
Identifier: islandora:30197

Title: East of Emerald Dome
Subject: Plants--Western Cape (South Africa), Mountain plants--Western Cape (South Africa), ,
Description: District: Unknown, Location: Nuweberg State Forest., Ecology: Unknown.
Identifier: islandora:4452

Title: Wedding in Arderne Gardens
Subject: weddings, wedding couple, wedding dressColored people (South Africa), Newlyweds, Wedding costume
Description: A young bride and groom.
Identifier: islandora:8344

Title: Kerzaz, Colomb-Béchar
Subject: Kerzaz (Algeria)--Maps, ,
Description: Map showing Kerzaz, a town, commune and capital of Kerzaz District in Béchar Province of western Algeria, and military territory boundaries, neighbouring/adjoining boundaries, with automobile tracks, main and secondary roads, permanent water points, temporary water points, wells filled, depth in metres of wells, white blooms gypsum rocks, salt water marshes, dunes with height in metres, sand dunes taking form, longitudinal dunes in the region non elevated, island or board mountains, reinforced towers, mosques, post and telegraph offices, geodetic points, astronomical points, altitude with height in metres, relative side of escarpment, dune, cavity, master and regular curves, landing fields, palm trees, wood and brush. Relief shown by form lines, hachures, height in metres. Colour. Scale 1: 500 000.
Identifier: islandora:19176

Title: Chants d'Auvergne (2. The cuckoo)
Subject: Canteloube, Joseph, 1879-1957. Chants d'Auvergne., Songs (High voice) with instrumental ensemble., Folk songs, French France Auvergne., Concerts--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: UCT Symphony Orchestra, Baxter Concert Hall, Cape Town, South Africa
Identifier: islandora:28594

Title: New Residence for J.D. Fitzgerald Trust, Somerset West
Subject: Dwellings -- Landscape architecture--South Africa--Somerset West--Designs and plans,
Description: House Fitzgerald, Erinvale, Somerset West, Western Cape. Hard landscaping plan., CAD base plan, printed onto tracing paper, with original hand-drawn ink detail, texture, labelling and hatching., Plan: scale 1:100; edging detail: 1:2
Identifier: islandora:22688

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