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Title: Old Slave Tree memorial, Church Square, Cape Town, 1953
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Slavery, Slaves, Building, Labour
Description: "On this Spot Stood the Old Slave Tree". Memorial to slaves, Church Square, Cape Town, 1953.
Identifier: islandora:17486

Title: Barn, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Buildings, Residential buildings
Description: Old stable-looking house.
Identifier: islandora:16619

Title: Marsh Memorial Homes chapel, Cape Town, 1978
Subject: Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Historic buildings, Architecture, Children, Social services
Description: Marsh Memorial Homes have a backdrop of Table Mountain. This is the Victorian-style chapel, built in 1922.
Identifier: islandora:17321

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:19823

Title: Simon Ngwenya, goat farmer
Subject: Bushman, San, South Africa, indigenous, identity, ritual, land rights, man, boots, stick, goats, farmer, portrait, buildings, San (African people)--South Africa--Chrissiesmeer, San (African people)--Agriculture--South Africa--Chrissiesmeer, Goat farmers--South Africa--Chrissiesmeer, Chrissiesmeer (South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:12444

Title: Exterior of Tuynhuys, Company's Gardens, Cape Town, 1985
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Apartheid, Public buildings, Architecture
Description: The exterior of De Tuynhuys, Cape Town, official office of the Presidency of the Republic of South Africa and associated with the seat of the highest political authority in the land for almost two and a half centuries
Identifier: islandora:17269

Title: St George's Cathedral, Cape Town , 1859
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Church buildings, Christianity, Urban development, Architecture
Description: The old classical St George's Cathedral at the top od St George's Street in 1859.
Identifier: islandora:17361

Title: Dutch Reformed Church, Three Anchor Bay, Cape Town, 1962
Subject: Three Anchor Bay (South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: The foundation stone of the Dutch Reformed Church at Three Anchor Bay was laid in 1878, and two years later the church was opened for worship. The handrails on the steps, a memorial to Dr. Fred Murray, were placed there by his family.
Identifier: islandora:17303

Title: Victorian facebrick house and stonework, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Architecture
Description: Guard House, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:17204

Title: Car in front of Loader Street residence, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Residential buildings, Historic districts, ,
Description: Car in front of Loader Street residence, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:15205

Title: Pinelands Methodist Church, Cape Town, 1961
Subject: Pinelands (Cape Town, South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: Where people pray - Methodist Church (Pinelands) - The modern-styled Methodist Church at Pinelands is guarded by two pine trees and fronted by a garden and a crazy-paved path. Wide teak doors, surmounted by high wooden caves, lead from Union Avenue into the porch of the church, which superseded the old church next door in 1952. The church buildings include a hall, opened in 1940, and a manse.
Identifier: islandora:17278

Title: Gas explosion in Adderley Street, Cape Town, 1937
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historical buildings, Utilities, Energy, Disasters
Description: The famous Adderley-street explosion.
Identifier: islandora:17352

Title: Foreshore freeway construction, Cape Town City
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Urban areas, Land, Urban development, Infrastructure, Transport, Building
Description: The Foreshore Freeway which will link the Eastern and Western boulevards. At bottom, work can be seen in progress over the Culemborg goods yards. To the right of the freeway can be seen the new Customs House under construction. The building under construction below the Sanlam Centre is Caltex House, which is an extension of the existing Douglas Murray Building. The City Council's new parking garage can be seen below the freeway's upper end.
Identifier: islandora:15124

Title: Cranes, Cape Town Harbour, 1978
Subject: Table Mountain (Western Cape, South Africa), Harbours, Infrastructure, Building, Industry
Description: An everyday sight at the docks, perhaps, but it needed the keen eye of Argus photographer to recognise the artistic possibilities of strong geometric shapes set off against the muted backdrop of Table Mountain, and compose this picture.
Identifier: islandora:17136

Title: St. Mary's Cathedral of Our Lady of the Flight into Egypt, Cape Town, 1961
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: Where people pray: St. Mary's Cathedral of Our Lady of the Flight into Egypt is the mother church of Roman Catholicism in South Africa. Built in 1851, it was restored and enlarged in 1927. Its fine cedar wood ceiling is as sound as it was when the cathedral was first built.
Identifier: islandora:17283

Title: Standard Bank, Adderley Street, Cape Town, 1930s
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Banking, Commerce, Architecture, Building,
Description: Cape Town Adderley St. branch of the Standard Bank after the addition of two upper storeys in the 1930s
Identifier: islandora:16749

Title: Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, Cape Town, 1938
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Memorials, Building, Labour
Description: A stonemason putting the finishing touches this morning to the bell tower erected at the entrance to Kirstenbosch in memory of Sir Lionel Phillips. A memorial tablet on the tower will be unveiled to-morrow by Sir James Rose-Innes.
Identifier: islandora:17465

Title: Church Street, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Urban development, Historic buildings, Roads
Description: Looking up Church Street, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17507

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: This plan is numbered Sheet 13. The sheet shows details of the construction and use of buildings within the area bounded by Queen Victoria, Bloem, Bree and Wale Streets. The sheet records 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., "Copyright 1949". Handwritten: "Rev'd to Sept 1956"., The original sheet has been updated by the pasting of new sections over the original plan.
Identifier: islandora:19896

Title: Construction of Sanlamhof office block, Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Building, Business, Apartheid, Architecture, Commerce
Description: Work ahead of schedule. Work on Bellville's biggest office block, Sanlamhof, is well ahead of schedule and when the contractors, Murray and Stewart, go on holiday they will have met all their deadlines to date. They moved on to the Sanlamhof site in June last year with two definite hand-over dates required of them. But Christmas last year they were asked to add a further (fourth) floor of 2000 sq m to the Sanlamhof block and by Christmas of this year to complete five further floors on top of the lower floors. In addition, they had to erect a 280 sq m service core (consisting of four lifts, toilets) to one side of the enlarged complex and to install the top half of a new central lift shaft so that it can eventually serve the new floors as well. All these deadlines will be met on schedule.
Identifier: islandora:16828

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