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Title: Robben Island, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Robben Island (South Africa), Historic sites, Shorelines, Docks, Ships
Description: Pictures taken on Robben Island before the turn of the century. The bay and harbour are named after John Murray, who started a whaling station in 1806. The name Murray's Bay remains to this day.
Identifier: islandora:16554

Title: Prison guards' homes, Robben Island, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Robben Island (South Africa), Political prisoners, Historic sites, Monuments, Residential buildings
Description: Robben Island
Identifier: islandora:16482

Title: Robben Island, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Robben Island (South Africa), Historic sites, Monuments, Architecture, Education
Description: Robben Island Primary School
Identifier: islandora:16518

Title: Robben Island, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Robben Island (South Africa), Historic sites, Cattle, Cows, Landscapes
Description: Dirt road on Robben Island, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16528

Title: Warrant officer at grandmother's grave, Robben Island, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Robben Island (South Africa), Historic sites, Monuments, Cemeteries, Death and remembrance, Families
Description: Fourth-generation islander Warrant Officer G.E. Carroll at the grave of his grandmother, Mrs Mary Ann Agne Nutt, in the island's cemetery.
Identifier: islandora:16535

Title: Entrance to prison, Robben Island, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Robben Island (South Africa), Political prisoners, Motorcars, Architecture, Historic sites
Description: The Island jail: The plain steps and heavy steel doors that form the entrance to the maximum security prison on Robben Island made famous by ANC [African National Congress' deputy president Mr Nelson Mandela and his peers.
Identifier: islandora:16487

Title: Officers next to the lighthouse, Robben Island, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Robben Island (South Africa), Jails, Historic sites, Monuments, Prison administration
Description: The four officers of the Robben Island Prison Command. From left are Lieutenant Danny Claassen, Colonel John Richards, Major Piet Zandberg and Lieutenant Piet Prins.
Identifier: islandora:16541

Title: Robben Island reunion
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Robben Island (South Africa), Political prisoners, Mandela, Nelson, 1918-, Historic sites, Monuments
Description: Past residents of Robben Island reunite, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16500

Title: Robben Island prisoners' relatives with attorney, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Robben Island (South Africa), Historic sites, Justice, Administration of, Families
Description: Relatives of Robben Island prisoners discuss with the instructing attorney, Mr A.M. Omar, their urgent application brought in the Supreme Court, Cape Town, today to restore prisoners' visiting privileges.
Identifier: islandora:16549

Title: Map of Robben Island
Subject: Robben Island (South Africa)--Maps,
Description: This map of Robben Island shows streets, Varney's Fort, Edmund's Pool, the lighthouse, Ladies' Rock, the slaughter house, Irish town, the boat house, restaurant, convict station, nurses' home, buildings housing the male lepers, tramway, kennels, the White House, buildings housing the female lepers, the quarry, sanitary tip, a spring, the old lime kiln and Wreck House. Also marked in a numbered key are the Chief and Medical Superintendent's quarters, workshops, the parsonage, the English Church, male asylum, a masonry tank, the female asylum. the Assistant Medical Officer, offices, the store, the library and billiard room, the Dutch parsonage, the Magistrate's quarters, the Works Department recreation room, the tram line, water pipes, drains and burial ground. Some colour. Scale 1 inch to 600 feet.
Identifier: islandora:29786

Title: Released prisoner, Robben Island, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Robben Island (South Africa), Historic sites, Harbors, Docks, Elderly people
Description: 31 Years on Robben Island - wife of technician in the Public Works Department, 70 year old Grace Robson, leaves this week.
Identifier: islandora:16536

Title: Robben Island, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Robben Island (South Africa), Historic sites, Monuments, Youth, Church buildings
Description: The Anglican Church on Robben Island was built in 1841 and is now a historical monument. Whenever a child is born to an islander, a special flag - a green stork on a white background - is flown from the steeple.
Identifier: islandora:16555

Title: Robben Island reunion
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Robben Island (South Africa), Political prisoners, Historic sites, Monuments, Limestone
Description: Freed prisoners revisit the island, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16498

Title: Family fitness programme, Robben Island, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Robben Island (South Africa), Table Mountain (Western Cape, South Africa), Health, Physical fitness, Historic sites
Description: Round Robben: Fish Hoek Primary School children join Robben Island staff on a "big walk" around the island to promote family fitness and the eating of red meat. The event forms part of a national project by the Directorate of Sport Advancement, sponsored by the Meat Board, for the Heart Foundation. Entrants in this and a host of other walks in the Western Cape stand to win R10 000 in a draw on October 13.
Identifier: islandora:16481

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