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Title: Insurance plan of Cape Town, Cape Colony, South Africa
Subject: Insurance--South Africa--Cape Town--Maps., Fire risk assessment--South Africa--Cape Town--Maps., Cape Town (South Africa)--Maps., Cape Town (South Africa)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Maps.
Description: The plans record street names, widths and numbers; fire-protection facilities (including the location of salt and fresh water hydrants); materials, shape, height, placement and use of buildings; the location of openings, types of stored materials and areas of high-risk activites on industrial sites., Sheet 1 comprises the key plan indicating 9 areas of central Cape Town surveyed by Goad (scale 1:6,000. 1 in. to 500 feet). This key plan includes notes on the water supply (salt and fresh) in central Cape Town, details of personnel and equipment of the Cape Town Fire Brigade and general comments on the city's climate and buildings. Also included is a sheet comprising an index of streets, buildings and firms. The buildings are colour coded by material type., Title from key plan on sheet 1., The 11 sheets (1 index and 10 maps) are in a hardcover volume, each sheet forming 2 leaves., This volume is one of 18 Cape Town fire-insurance atlases surveyed and drawn by Charles Edward Goad and printed in 1895. The bookplate pasted on the inside of the front cover indicates this copy was intended for the Union Assurance Society.
Identifier: islandora:19825

Title: Conophytum roodiae N.E.Br. subsp. cylindratum (Schwantes) T.Smale
Subject: South Africa--Northern Cape, Province of, Aizoaceae--South Africa--Northern Cape--Pictorial works, Botany--South Africa--Northern Cape--Pictorial works, Vygie
Description: Botanical illustration - coloured - Conophytum roodiae N.E.Br. subsp. cylindratum (Schwantes) T. Smale. Plate 18, Mesemb. Notes, Part 3, H.M.L. Bolus 1936-58, or II, in later edition. F. The plant drawn was from a collection made by H. Herre (SUG8364), 28 miles from Port Nolloth, on the road to Steinkopf.
Identifier: islandora:23196

Title: Petrol-bombed township advice during the second (1988-1990) State of Emergency
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), State of Emergency, Political persecution, Apartheid, Hostels, Migrant labour
Description: Bombed: A hostel dweller with what he believes is a piece of the petrol bomb that destroyed the advice office of the Western Cape Hostel Dwellers' Association. The room behind him is a crèche and play centre.
Identifier: islandora:15838

Title: Groot Constantia: general restoration
Subject: Wine estates, Groot Constantia (Cape Town, South Africa), Historic farms--South Africa--Cape Town, Historic farms--Conservation and restoration--South Africa--Cape Town, Wineries--South Africa--Cape Town, Landscape architecture--South Africa--Cape Town,
Description: Sections through New Sloot: Cut and Fill: hand-drawn pen and ink cross-section drawings on tracing paper, showing the earthshaping and finish levels required to form the new sloot running through the courtyard between the historic manor house and cellar buildings of the old farm werf at the historic Groot Constantia Wine Estate, Groot Constantia Road, Cape Town, South Africa., Scale 1:50 on A1. Drawing number 301/WD/05
Identifier: islandora:22459

Title: CSIR - Database of Archival Landscape Photographs
Identifier: islandora:343

Title: Conophytum wettsteinii (A.Berger) N.E.Br.
Subject: South Africa--Northern Cape, Province of, Aizoaceae--South Africa--Northern Cape--Pictorial works, Botany--South Africa--Northern Cape--Pictorial works, Vygie
Description: Botanical illustration - coloured - Conophytum wettsteinii (A.Berger) N.E.Br. Drawn from a collection made at Copperberg [Koperberg] in Namaqualand by N.S. Pillans (5763), 1926.
Identifier: islandora:23343

Title: Addo Elephant National Park, Zuurberg
Subject: Albany Thicket, , , ,
Description: Location: Zuurberg, Addo Elephant National Park; exact location unknown., Ecology: Eastern Cape Thicket.
Identifier: islandora:10557

Title: Conophytum ectypum N.E.Br. subsp. ectypum
Subject: South Africa--Northern Cape, Province of, Aizoaceae--South Africa--Northern Cape--Pictorial works, Botany--South Africa--Northern Cape--Pictorial works, Vygie
Description: Botanical illustration -capsule relating to the illustration - Conophytum ectypum N.E.Br. Scanned contents of capsule from a collection made by Brown (sub-National Botanical Garden 1089/27). [Refer to Bolus Herbarium 130828 for illustration of plant and to Bolus Herbarium 131032 for illustration of plant and dissected flower parts]. [No locality details are given. Plant species endemic to South Africa; Northern Cape Province distribution].
Identifier: islandora:23350

Title: Fishing industry, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Fishing, Recreation, Ocean, Seafood
Description: Snoek run: the snoek boats are moving with the early morning sun because large shoals have moved in on the Peninsula's Atlantic coastline. Catches of up to 500 fish a boat are being made. Prices have dropped from R3 for a snoek early this week to R1,40. The boats have been working along the coast from Clifton to Slangkop. Fishermen say it could be one of the best snoek seasons in years.
Identifier: islandora:15017

Title: Zachariashoek catchment
Subject: Vegetation monitoring--Wemmershoek (South Africa), Vegetation management--Wemmershoek (South Africa), Prescribed burning--Wemmershoek (South Africa), Plants--Effect of fires on--Wemmershoek (South Africa), Botany--Research--Wemmershoek (South Africa), ,
Description: District: Paarl, Location: La Motte State Forest, Zachariashoek., Ecology: After 11 November 1977 prescribed burning.
Identifier: islandora:4006

Title: Report on a surface site near Yzerfontein.
Subject: South Africa--Antiquities, , ,
Description: Report on a surface site at De Hoek, near Yzerfontein, Western Cape, South Africa. The site contained a hammer stone and an upper grindstone.
Identifier: islandora:21749

Title: Grabouw Forest Reserve
Subject: Protea cynaroides--Western Cape (South Africa), Proteaceae--Western Cape (South Africa), Vegetation monitoring--Western Cape (South Africa), Protea grandiceps--Western Cape (South Africa), Botanists--Western Cape (South Africa), ,
Description: District: Caledon, Location: Grabouw Forest Reserve., Ecology: Protea cynaroides / P. grandiceps.
Identifier: islandora:3084

Title: Mesembryanthemum sp.
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 - Mesembryanthemum sp. Drawn from a collection made by V.S. Peers ( sub-National Botanical Garden 1387/33), Little Namaqualand.
Identifier: islandora:22771

Title: University of the Western Cape students march, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Education, Higher
Description: University of the Western Cape (UWC) students march, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16084

Title: Plan of the Transkeian Territories, sheet no. 9
Subject: Xalanga (South Africa)--Maps, Transkei (South Africa)--History--Maps,
Description: Map showing sheet no. 9 of the Plan of the Transkeian Territories, showing the districts of Xalanga and St. Mark's, locations, names of places, plan numbers, district boundaries, rivers, roads, plantations, and forests. Scale: 800 Cape roods to 1 in. Relief shown by shading. No projection given.
Identifier: islandora:30076

Title: Marloth Nature Reserve
Subject: Plants--Western Cape (South Africa), Mountain plants--Western Cape (South Africa), Mountains--Western Cape (South Africa), Vegetation management--Western Cape (South Africa), ,
Description: District: Swellendam, Location: Marloth Nature Reserve, Swellendam State Forest., Ecology: Prescribed burning preparations.
Identifier: islandora:4573

Title: Martin West Collection: African Independent Churches in Soweto
Description: Secretary at the Christian Institute of Southern Africa, assisting the Womens Assocation of the African Independent Churches (WAAIC). See Martin West, Bishops & Prophets, pp 164-5.
Identifier: islandora:2402

Title: Discussing Resolution 435
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, meeting, village, interview, San, indigenous, San (African people)--Namibia, Indigenous peoples--Namibia, Political participation--Namibia, Public meetings--Namibia, Self-determination, National--Namibia--History, !Kung (African people)--Namibia, Namibia
Identifier: islandora:12177

Title: Erepsia patula (Haw.) Schwantes
Subject: South Africa--Western Cape, Province of the, Aizoaceae--South Africa--Western Cape, Botany--South Africa--Western Cape--Pictorial works, Vygie
Description: Botanical illustration - coloured - Erepsia patula (Haw.) Schwantes. Drawn from a collection made between Pakhuis Pass [Pakhuispas]and Durbanville by C.L. Leipoldt (sub-Bolus Herbarium 20356). Exact location unknown.
Identifier: islandora:23724

Title: Mandela and De Klerk at a meeting, Cape Town, 1990
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government--1989-1994, South Africa--History--1961-1994, Ex-presidents--South Africa, Political leadership--South Africa, Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013, De Klerk, F. W. (Frederik Willem),
Description: Nelson Mandela and F.W. De Klerk at a meeting between the ANC (African National Congress) and the then South African government, the NP (National Party).
Identifier: islandora:12605

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