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Title: Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town, 1979
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Castle of Good Hope (Cape Town, South Africa), Colonialism, Architecture, Marching bands
Description: The Castle is one of the Cape Town's oldest and most interesting buildings and is still in use by the Defence Force. It also houses military and naval museums.
Identifier: islandora:17099

Title: La Garonne Manor House, Franschhoek
Subject: Rose gardens, La Garonne (Manor house : Franschhoek, South Africa), Historic buildings--Landscape architecture--South Africa--Franschhoek--Designs and plans,
Description: La Garonne Manor House, Franschhoek, Western Cape. Plan of new rose garden, access roads and paths., Original, hand-drawn, ink on tracing paper.
Identifier: islandora:27980

Title: Cars parked in front of Parliament, Cape Town
Subject: South Africa. Parliament, Governments, Legislation, Architecture, Transport, ,
Description: Parliament, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:15777

Title: Garden, Moroka, Soweto
Subject: Swimming pools, Gardens (open spaces), Dwellings--Landscape architecture--South Africa--Soweto--Designs and plans,
Description: House, Moroka, Soweto. Sketch plan of garden layout, and section of swimming pool and waterfalls., Blueprint (ammonia copy) of hand-drawn original, rendered with colour (Copic markers).
Identifier: islandora:27988

Title: Adderley Street shops, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Urban development, City planning, Architecture, Culture
Description: Another bit of old Cape Town is about to disappear. The occupants of three little shops nestling on a corner at the top of Adderley Street - an optometrist, a button shop and a bookshop - have been ordered to move by the end of June.
Identifier: islandora:17040

Title: Holy Trinity Church, Kalk Bay, Cape Town, 1961
Subject: Kalk Bay (South Africa), Church buildings, Historical, Architecture, Christianity
Description: Holy Trinity (Kalk Bay) - Framed against the Kalk Bay mountains in a terraced garden dotted with pine and cypress trees stands a pretty stone and thatch church. It was built by two Englishwomen as a replica of the church they attended in England before coming to South Africa in the middle of the nineteenth century. Perched on the mountainside at Kalk Bay and looking down to the sea is Holy Trinity Church. The terraced garden in front of the church, and the Garden of Remembrance it includes, are kept in order by two of the women parishioners. Below the garden is an old graveyard which has not been used since the turn of the century. A new hall is being built at the back of the church to take place of the old one that has been demolished.
Identifier: islandora:17280

Title: Parliamentary Precinct
Subject: South Africa ; Western Cape, Province of the ; Cape Town, Landscaping plans, Landscape architecture--South Africa--Cape Town, Public buildings--South Africa--Cape Town--Landscape architecture
Description: Parliamentary Precinct, Cape Town, Western Cape. Landscape plan of the full extent of the Parliamentary Precinct, Cape Town, including its immediate context: Government Avenue, St John's Street, Plein Street, Roeland Street, and the relative positions of Tuynhuys and Stalplein. Hand-drawn with pen and ink on tracing paper., Scale 1:500
Identifier: islandora:22691

Title: Demolition, Malay Quarter, Cape Town
Subject: Bo-Kaap (Cape Town, South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Architecture, Historic buildings, Historic districts
Description: Demolition of houses in the Malay Quarter, Cape Town, in the late 1970s
Identifier: islandora:17237

Title: Vredelust Church, Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (Cape Town, South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: Vredelust Dutch Reformed Church in Bellville, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:17331

Title: Oudekraal Resort
Subject: Recreation areas--Landscape architecture--South Africa--Cape Town--Designs and plans, Picnic grounds--Landscape architecture--South Africa--Cape Town--Designs and plans, Landscape irrigation--South Africa--Cape Town--Designs and plans,
Description: Oudekraal Resort, Cape Town. Eastern braai area: irrigation layout., Blue print (ammonia copy) of original, hand-drawn, ink on paper.
Identifier: islandora:28083

Title: St. George's Mall, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Urban development, Commerce, Architecture, Transport
Description: Informal trading in St. George's Mall after the pedestrianisation of St. George's Street, central Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17025

Title: Office workers in Bellville,Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Labour, Apartheid, Commerce, Architecture, Office workers
Description: Three floors of office workers are seen in this picture of the inside of a big Bellville office block. Bellville has many fine commercial buildings and more are being built.
Identifier: islandora:16795

Title: The inside of Cape Town train station.
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Railroads, Transport, Infrastructure, Architecture, Interior decoration
Description: The inside of Cape Town train station.
Identifier: islandora:16154

Title: Interior of the bank,Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Banking, Commerce, Architecture, Building,
Description: The interior of the Standard Bank, Adderley Street, before refurbishing took place.
Identifier: islandora:16747

Title: Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Castle of Good Hope (Cape Town, South Africa), Colonialism, Architecture, Marching bands
Description: Entrance to a portion of Governor's residence, Castle, Cape Town, before restoration.
Identifier: islandora:17100

Title: Boekenhoutskloof
Subject: South Africa ; Western Cape, Province of the ; Cape Town, S33--56'33" E19--6'28", Boekenhoutskloof Winery (Franschhoek, South Africa), Landscape architecture--South Africa--Franschhoek--Designs and plans
Description: Boekenhoutskloof, Franschhoek, Western Cape. Landscaping proposal for the main area of Boekenhoutskloof., plan: scale 1:200
Identifier: islandora:22323

Title: City Bowl, Cape Town, circa 1905
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Architecture, Urban development, City planning, Demolition
Description: By 1905, the view from the same spot had changed drastically, as this photograph shows.
Identifier: islandora:17189

Title: Blomfontein development, Elim
Subject: Blomfontein (Elim, South Africa), Farms--Landscape architecture--South Africa--Western Cape--Designs and plans,
Description: Blomfontein, Elim, Western Cape. Landscape master plan/site development plan. Hand-drawn in ink on tracing paper., Plan: scale 1:500(?)
Identifier: islandora:22320

Title: Ships in Table Bay
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Shipping, Urban development, City planning, Architecture
Description: Ships in Table Bay prior to the expansion of the harbour and the Foreshore reclamation. The Breakwater Prison building is visible at centre left.
Identifier: islandora:17083

Title: Cape Town Church
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: Church in Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17335

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