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Title: Family sits outside their house in Ocean View, Cape Town
Subject: Residential buildings, Communities, Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Forced removals (South Africa), , ,
Description: Ocean View.
Identifier: islandora:15609

Title: Wife of the king of Ondonga shows theremains of her house after a firefight between SADF and PLAN
Subject: Women, Buildings--War damage
Description: The wife of the king of Ondonga, Immanuel Kauluma Elifas of Ondonga, shows the remains of her pantry after a firefight between South African Defence Force (SADF) soldiers and People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN) combatants. Onamungundo.
Identifier: islandora:6807

Title: House on Meadway Road, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Gardens, Architecture, Residential buildings
Description: No. 4 Meadway belongs to Mr D.B. Sides.
Identifier: islandora:15828

Title: Victorian Church, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: Cape Town Victorian Church
Identifier: islandora:17325

Title: Opening of the Muizenberg Pavilion, Cape Town
Subject: Infrastructure, Relaxation, Historic buildings, ,
Description: Muizenberg pavilion opened: This was the opening day of the Muizenberg Pavilion on December 14, 1929. Built at a cost of some £200 000 it was destined to last only only about 40 years, for the demolition started on this building towards the end of 1970. This brick and stone building replaced the old wooden pavilion with its wooden-slatted promenade deck that served bathers and visitors alike to this most popular of South African beaches. This pavilion which was opened by the Cape Administrator of the time, Mr J.H. Conradie, consisted of three sections - the bathing cubicles, the tearoom-restauraunt and a theatre seating about 900.
Identifier: islandora:15381

Title: Property development, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), City planning, Real estate development, Building
Description: SASKO Mill in Rondebosch has applied to the Cape Town City Council for a re-zoning of the site for future development.
Identifier: islandora:16614

Title: Metropolitan Methodist Church in Greenmarket Square, Cape Town, 1961
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture
Description: Mellowed by its 80 years the Metropolitan Methodist Church in Greenmarket Square holds the secret of Cape Town's old bells which are thought to be in the church tower. It is hoped that in the near future a long enough ladder will be obtained to enable someone to investigate their state and the possibility of ringing them again.
Identifier: islandora:17271

Title: The Maccassar estate where houses were built for Somchem's coloured employees
Subject: Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Residential buildings, ,
Description: The Macassar estate where Murray & Roberts' Specialised Contracting Division recently completed 151 houses for Bonaero Park (Pty) Limited, the developer. The houses are all for Somchem's Coloured employees.
Identifier: islandora:15181

Title: Street in Pinelands, Cape Town
Subject: Pinelands (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Motorcars, Residential buildings, Roads
Description: Street in Pinelands, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:15827

Title: Aerial view of Muizenberg
Subject: Infrastructure, Residential buildings, Ocean, ,
Description: Muizenberg, with all its natural attractions, has its car-parks and beaches crowded by visitors for only a comparitively short period of the year. Most of the time it looks like this.
Identifier: islandora:15400

Title: First telegraph office, Cape Town, circa 1876
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Communication
Description: Cape Town's first telegraph office. It stood at what is now Cartwright's Corner in 1876.
Identifier: islandora:17195

Title: Adderley Street, Cape Town, 1934
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings
Description: Adderley Street, Cape Town. Cape Town holiday. Visit of Prince George, 1934.
Identifier: islandora:17392

Title: Building a hut
Subject: Bushman, San, indigenous, Southern Africa, woman, carrying, grass, building, hut, San (African people)--Botswana--Central Kalahari Game Reserve, San (African people)--Dwellings--Botswana--Central Kalahari Game Reserve, Central Kalahari Game Reserve (Botswana)
Identifier: islandora:12313

Title: Hut framework
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, indigenous, San, hut, bushveld, trees, sand, settlement, sticks, building, construction, San (African people)--Relocation--South Africa, Ghost towns--South Africa, Kalahari Gemsbok National Park (South Africa)
Description: Remains of a removed settlement. The framework of a hut. Kalahari Gemsbok National Park, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:12030

Title: The dovecote at Koornhoop in Mowbray, Cape Town
Subject: Historic buildings, Residential buildings, Farmhouses, Dovecotes, ,
Description: Members leaving the dovecote ar Koornhoop, Mowbray, to see what the building looks like at the back. The dovecote, and the two gables flanking it, were proclaimed the next day.
Identifier: islandora:15427

Title: Diep River, Cape Town
Subject: Diep River (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), History, Architecture, Building
Description: Diep River, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17949

Title: St. Paul's Anglican Church, Cape Town, 1965
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: Bishop Lavis's Church : St. Paul's Church, Bree Street, where Bishop Lavis will be honoured by the citizens of Cape Town to-morrow. He served a large Anglican community there from his arrival in Cape Town in 1898 till 1928. Now his son-in-law the Rev K. O'Connor-Fenton has been rector there for six years. Bishop Lavis always said he wanted to be buried from St. Paul's. It was his last home. The Archbishop of Cape Town will celebrate Requiem Mass there at 9 a.m. to-morrow.
Identifier: islandora:17292

Title: Man holding a child
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, man, child, house, San, indigenous, house, building, settlement, uniform, army, Veterans--Namibia, San (African people)--Dwellings--Namibia, Building, Iron and steel--Namibia, Toys--Namibia, Namibia
Description: An ex-soldier wearing army overalls and cap, holding a child, standing in a settlement of corrugated iron structures. In the background is a boy with a wire toy. Tsintsabis, Namibia.
Identifier: islandora:11696

Title: Montebello
Subject: South Africa ; Western Cape, Province of the ; Cape Town, Montebello Design Centre (Cape Town, South Africa), Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration--South Africa--Cape Town, Historic sites--Conservation and restoration--South Africa--Cape Town, Landscape architecture--South Africa--Cape Town, ianford_montebello_may1996_003.jpg
Description: Montebello Estate, Newland Avenue, Newlands: Origianl tree survey drawing , based on Harris, McGarrick and Mellon Land Surveyors drawing (1993), original pen and ink on tracing paper indicating existing trees to be retained, trees to be retained if possible and trees to be removed (senescent. damaged, diseased, and or declared weeds / alien spaces)., Scale 1:200
Identifier: islandora:22673

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