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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: SA Airways, station, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Urban areas, Infrastructure, Architecture, Land, Buildings
Description: Argus Chief Photographer Jim McLagan goes a bit glassy-eyed when he used the sheet of window pane in the station to get this double image.
Identifier: islandora:15103