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Title: Plan of Cape Town and environs lithographed for G[eorge] Greig's Cape of Good Hope Directory & Almanac
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: Photocopy., Scale on map: Two furlongs or quarter of an English mile [= 2 inches]; scale of English yards [ca. 1 inch to 220 yards]., Block plan of Cape Town, showing part of Table Bay, streets and buildings with a key to 28 of the buildings depicted on the map, inter alia, hospitals (including the Merchant Seaman's Hospital), the Slave Lodge and the Menagerie on Orange Street, the Public Offices (in the old Slave Lodge building in Adderley Street), South African College, the prison, police station, army barracks, the burying or burial ground on Somerset Street, churches and chapels., Inset: "Table Mountain from Table Bay [showing] A. Devil's Mountain; B. Table Mountain; C. Lion's Head; D. Lion's Rump."
Identifier: islandora:19926

Title: Witwatersrand National Botanical Garden
Subject: Infrastructure, Witwatersrand National Botanical Garden (Roodepoort, South Africa), Walter Sisulu National Botanical Garden (Roodepoort, South Africa), Botanical gardens--South Africa--Roodepoort, Infrastructure (Economics)--South Africa--Roodepoort--Maps,
Description: Witwatersrand National Botanical Garden, Roodepoort, Gauteng. Plan of proposed service infrastructure, incuding electricity, reservoir, water reticulation, sewerage system, suggested cable-way, and future fencing. Extract from report., Ammonia copy (blueprint) of original, hand-drawn, ink on paper.
Identifier: islandora:28169

Title: C.G.R. flying survey : Malmesbury, Gouda and Piquetberg, 1896
Subject: Railroads--South Africa--Piketberg--Maps, Railroads--South Africa--Malmesbury--Maps, Railroads--South Africa--Gouda--Maps, ,
Description: Map showing proposed railway line from Salt River Station, Cape Town, to the existing line at Kalabas Kraal Station, passing the village of Philadelphia; then from the village of Malmesbury to Honig Berg, where the proposed line goes right to Gouda and left to Groote Kuilen near Piquetberg. The map shows existing railways, rivers, roads, farms and relief shown by hachures. Lines in red. Scale 1/2 inch to 1 mile.
Identifier: islandora:25097

Title: Appendix map C
Subject: Griqualand West (South Africa)--Maps,
Description: Map showing the territory of Nicholas Waterboer in Griqualand West, in relation to the Cape Colony and the Orange Free State, with the boundaries according to treaties, rivers, place names and relief shown by hachures. No scale given.
Identifier: islandora:29805

Title: Upington
Subject: South African War, 1899-1902 -- Maps., Upington Region (South Africa) -- Maps., Northern Cape (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: This map forms part of the Imperial map of the Cape Colony., The map shows grand trunk roads, trunk roads, branch roads, farm roads, rivers, hills, pans, railways, telegraph lines, homesteads, farm names, farm boundaries and divisional boundaries in the Upington area., Relief shown by hachures., The Imperial map of the Cape Colony was "compiled by the Field Intelligence Division or Department of the British Army in Cape Town during the second Anglo-Boer War. ... [P.H. du P.] Casgrain ... superintended its production ..." (Board, C. "Certainly better than nothing at all" : a re-examination of the Imperial map of South Africa 1899-1902. Proceedings of the 21st International Cartographic Conference, Durban, 2003. Available online: http://icaci.org/files/documents/ICC_proceedings/ICC2003/Papers/109.pdf (accessed 5 Sept. 2012))., "This map is not to be considered as absolutely accurate"., Projection not given., Not all of the co-ordinates are given., Printed in black and red., Map folds into an outer cover., The map is mounted on linen.
Identifier: islandora:24866

Title: City of Cape Town and environs
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa) -- Maps., Cape Town Metropolitan Area (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: This street plan of Cape Town shows the central business district and the peri-urban and suburban areas of the city including the City Bowl area, the Atlantic Seaboard, the Southern Suburbs, the Northern Suburbs, the Cape Flats and the False Bay area. Included are Woodstock, Good Hope model village, Tiger Oats Township, Kensington, Windermere, Factreton, Epping plantation, Uitvlugt, Gatesville, Belgravia, Sanatorium Township, Pinelands and the Garden Cities site, Ndabeni, Hazendal, the proposed Bokmakirie Township, Goodwood, Langa, Welcome, Groote Schuur Estate, Kirstenbosch, Lotus River, Ronde Vlei, Zeekoe Vlei, Grassy Park, Strandfontein Coast Forest Reserve and Table Bay harbour., The map also shows municipalities, streets, buildings, erven with property numbers, "native locations", mountains, rivers and dams, salt pans, forested areas, sports and recreation grounds, Kenilworth Race Course, golf courses, aerodromes (including the air mail aerodrome site), schools, hospitals and sanatoria, churches, railway lines, railway stations, power stations, the zoo, lighthouses, cemeteries and burial grounds., Relief shown pictorially., Text in English and Afrikaans., Dimensions of the printed sheets: 97 x 67 cm., Includes an index sheet., The library does not hold a full printed set of the 1930 edition of this map. These digital copies have been made available through the generosity of the Environmental Resource Management Department of the Cape Town City Council.
Identifier: islandora:19861

Title: GPS Land Use and Occupancy Survey : |Una Rooi, |Abaka Koper, Kheis Brou, Karel "Vet Piet" Kleinman, Jakob and Lena Malgas, Map item #12
Subject: Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park (Botswana and South Africa), Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--South Africa, Indigenous peoples--Legal status, laws, etc.--South Africa, San (African people)--Kalahari Desert, Africa, Southern--Maps, ,
Description: A map of the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park showing various numbered points of interest within the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. There is no legend but these numbers are believed to correspond with GPS co-ordinates taken at sites of cultural significance gleaned from interviews with members of the San community.
Identifier: islandora:27336

Title: Map of the Eastern Frontier of the Cape Colony and adjacent territory
Subject: Eastern Cape (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: The map indicates the administrative areas of East London, Peddie, Bathurst, King William's Town, Alexandria, Port Elizabeth, Uitenhage, Humansdorp, Graaff Reinet, Middelburg, Cradock, Colesberg, Albert, Herschel, Aliwal North, Queenstown, Stockenstrom, Victoria East, Fort Beaufort, Bedford and Albany. It also shows portions of Natal, Basutoland and the Free State as well as cities, towns and mission stations., Relief shown by shading., Note on map: "This map has been compiled from the best available sources of information in the Surveyor General's Office"., Projection not given. Bar scale in English miles., Manuscript annotation: "Copyright reserved no. 541, M.B."
Identifier: islandora:19613

Title: Cape of Good Hope. Van Wyk's Vlei
Subject: Van Wyksvlei Region (South Africa) -- Maps., Northern Cape (South Africa) -- Maps., Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: Topographical map indicating Van Wyk's Vlei and other towns and villages, roads, railways, rivers, mountains, dunes and other features in the area surrounding Van Wyk's Vlei., Relief shown by contours, form lines and spot heights., Projection not given., Includes index to adjoining sheets., Mounted on cloth.
Identifier: islandora:24943

Title: Witwatersrand National Botanical Garden
Subject: Vegetation, Witwatersrand National Botanical Garden (Roodepoort, South Africa), Walter Sisulu National Botanical Garden (Roodepoort, South Africa), Botanical gardens--South Africa--Roodepoort, Vegetation surveys--South Africa--Roodepoort--Maps,
Description: Witwatersrand National Botanical Garden, Roodepoort, Gauteng. Map with key showing the vegetation in the upper part of the Garden. Extract from report., Ammonia copy (blueprint) of original, hand-drawn, ink on paper.
Identifier: islandora:28160

Title: Kalk Bay
Subject: Kalk Bay (South Africa) -- Maps., Cape Peninsula (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: Maps of the Kalk Bay area with sheets for Clovelly, Kalk Bay itself and St James. The maps show streets, roads, the railway line, railway stations, buildings (domestic and business), churches, schools, playing fields, the wash house, rivers, the shore line, Woolley's Pool, Kalk Bay harbour, Dalebrook Pool, Danger Beach, Aquarium Gully and the Kalk Bay pavilion, bathing pool and swimming pool., Relief shown pictorially., The maps are stapled together between 2 covers., 01. Clovelly, EC 95 / surveyed by E. Cuthbert, May 1951 ; drawn by K. Powell, Aug. 1952 -- 02. Clovelly, ED 95 / surveyed by E. Cuthbert, May 1951 ; drawn by M. Ebdon, Aug. 1952 -- 03. Kalk Bay, ED 94 / surveyed by R. Taylor, Dec. 1950 ; drawn by J. Pelczyński, July, 1952 -- 04. Kalk Bay, ED 93 / surveyed by E. Cuthbert, Nov. 1950 ; drawn by K. Powell, March 1952 -- 05. Kalk Bay, EE 95 / surveyed by W. Black, Jan. 1951 ; drawn by A. Spencer-Hicken, July, 1952 -- 06. Kalk Bay, EE 94 / surveyed by R. Taylor, Nov. 1950 ; drawn by A. Spencer-Hicken, June, 1952 -- 07. Kalk Bay, EE 93 / surveyed by E. Cuthbert, Feb. 1951 ; drawn by E. Wagstaffe, J. Pelczyński, Sept. 1952 -- 08. Kalk Bay, EE92 / surveyed by G. Hodgson, Nov. 1950 ; drawn by E. Wagstaffe, July 1952 -- 09. St James, EF 90 / surveyed by F. Bayley, Jan. 1951 ; drawn by A. Spencer-Hicken, Nov., 1951 -- 10. Kalk Bay, EF 92 / surveyed by G. Hodgson, Oct. 1950 ; drawn by K. Powell, June 1952 -- 11. St James, EF 91 / surveyed by E. Hansen, Sept. 1950 ; drawn by M. Ebdon, July 1952 -- 12. St James, EG 91 / surveyed by E. Hansen, P. Wood-Pottle ; drawn by M. Ebdon, Feb. 1951.
Identifier: islandora:19845

Title: Map of the colony of Natal. Scale
Subject: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: This section, Scale, forms part of the Map of the colony of Natal., The sheet gives part of the title, the scale, details of responsibility and the reference key to the Map of the colony of Natal., Collective title, Map of the colony of Natal, from Scale and Durban (North Coast) sections; section title, Scale, from cover., The sheet folds into an outer cover.
Identifier: islandora:19535

Title: City of Cape Town and environs
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa) -- Maps., Cape Town Metropolitan Area (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: This 1931 shaded map of Cape Town shows the central business district and the peri-urban and suburban areas of the city including Gardens, Oranjezicht, Vredehoek, Tamboers Kloof, Woodstock, Salt River, Brooklyn, Good Hope model village, Milnerton, Paarden Eiland, Maitland, certificate of registered title for Montagu Gardens, Sanddrift, Tiger Oats Township, Kensington, Windermere, Factreton, Epping plantation, Uitvlugt, Gatesville, Belgravia, Sanatorium Township, Pinelands and the Garden Cities site, Ndabeni, Hazendal, the proposed Bokmakirie Township, Goodwood, Langa, Welcome, Observatory, Mowbray, Rosebank, Rondebosch, Groote Schuur Estate, Kirstenbosch, Newlands, Claremont, Kenilworth, Constantia, Wynberg, Plumstead, Diep River, Heathfield, Retreat, Lotus River, Schaap Kraal, Tokai, Silvermine, Ronde Vlei, Zeekoe Vlei, Grassy Park, Strandfontein Coast Forest Reserve, Montagu's Gift, Ilfracombe Estate, Dreyersdal, Lakeside, Muizenberg, St James, Kalk Bay, Clovelly, Fish Hoek, Glencairn, Red Hill, Simonstown, Simon's Bay, Kommetjie, Sweet Water, Witsands, Noordhoek, Scarborough, Hout Bay, Chapman's Peak, Kronendal, Oude Kraal, Bakoven, Camps Bay, Clifton, Sea Point, Fresnaye, Green Point, Mouille Point and Table Bay harbour., The map also shows municipalities, streets, buildings, erven with property numbers, "native locations", Table Mountain, the Twelve Apostles and other mountains, rivers and dams, salt pans, forested areas, sports and recreation grounds, Kenilworth Race Course, golf courses, aerodromes (including the air mail aerodrome site), hospitals and sanatoria including Groote Schuur, Valkenberg, Rentzkie's Farm Isolation hospital, Oude Molen Mental Hospital, the Alexandra Institution and the Chronic Sick home, churches, railway lines, railway stations, power stations, the zoo, the University of Cape Town, lighthouses, cemeteries and burial grounds., Text in English and Afrikaans., Dimensions of the printed sheets: 97 x 67 cm., The library does not hold a full printed set of the 1931 shaded edition of this map. These digital copies of sheets 07, 10, 13, 16 and 17 have been made available through the generosity of the Environmental Resource Management Department of the Cape Town City Council.
Identifier: islandora:19873

Title: Plan of the Transkeian Territories, sheet no. 5
Subject: South Africa--Bantustans--Maps, Transkei (South Africa)--History--Maps, ,
Description: Map showing sheet no. 5 of the Plan of the Transkeian Territories, showing the districts of Mount Fletcher and parts of Qumbu, Tsolo and Maclear, reserves, major settlements, names of places, plan numbers, district boundaries, rivers, roads, plantations, and forests. Scale: 800 Cape roods to 1 in. Relief shown by shading. No projection given.
Identifier: islandora:30056

Title: Map of the Transvaal Republic and Moselikatse's country, framed from observations and from information obtained from travellers, hunters and natives showing the routs [sic] to the Tati gold fields and further north, 1868 and 1869
Subject: Transvaal (South Africa) -- Maps., Africa, Southern -- Maps., Gold mines and mining -- Africa, Southern -- Maps
Description: The map shows parts of the Transvaal, Rhodesia [Zimbabwe] and Mozambique, Mashona country, Matabele country and Makalaka country. It also indicates towns, including Delagoa [Bay], Inhambane, Sofala, Tete, Nilstroom [Nylstroom], Warmbad, Rustenburg, Pretoria, Potchefstroom and Heidelberg, mountains, rivers, tributaries, and the sites of gold fields and rumoured gold deposits., Relief shown by contours.
Identifier: islandora:19579

Title: Map of the South African Republic and adjoining territories
Subject: Africa, Southern -- Maps., Transvaal (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: Map of the South African Republic (later the Transvaal) showing the boundaries with its southern African neighbours, cities, towns, main roads, other roads and tracks, railways and railway stations, kraals, mission stations, mountains, rivers, telegraphs and telegraph offices, and the undersea cable from Durban to Lourenço Marques and northwards to Zanzibar., "Railways to June 1899.", Relief shown by hachures and spot heights.
Identifier: islandora:19795

Title: C.G.R. flying survey : Mossel Bay-Oudtshoorn via Gouritz River Gorge, 1896
Subject: Railroads--South Africa--Mossel Bay--Maps, Railroads--South Africa--Oudtshoorn--Maps, ,
Description: Map showing proposed railway from Mossel Bay to Oudtshoorn through the Gouritz River Gorge or alternatively via Georgetown. The route through the Gouritz River Gorge crosses the Attaquas Mountains and passes Herberts Dale. Map shows rivers, roads and the coastline from Fish Bay to Christina Bay. Some colour. Scale 1/2 inch to 1 mile.
Identifier: islandora:25096

Title: Kroonstad
Subject: Kroonstad (South Africa)--Maps, ,
Description: Map showing Kroonstad area in Free State, South Africa, with towns and villages, roads, railways, telegraphs and telephone lines, power lines, lighthouses, aerodromes, water aerodromes, landing fields, bridges, concrete drifts, mines, trigonometrical beacons, spotheights in feet, built-up areas, isolated buildings, police posts, stores, hotels, post or telegraph offices, isolated churches or missions, native kraals, aerial cableways, mountain and hill names, capes, points, rocks, islands, springs, waterholes and wells, rivers or dams, marshes or vleis, pans and lakes, weirs, pipelines and canals, forests, plantations and orchards, rows of trees, natural bush, sugar cane. , vleis, pans and lakes, weirs, pipelines and canals. Relief shown by form lines and spot heights. Colour. Scale 1 : 250,000.
Identifier: islandora:19324

Title: South Africa : maximum annual rainfall from the averages of observations, 1885-94
Subject: Rain and rainfall--South Africa--Maps, Rain and rainfall--South Africa--Measurement--Maps,
Description: Map of South Africa showing illustrations of the maximum annual rainfall, rainfall stations, railways, roads, rivers, hachures, and plateaus. Some coloured. Scale: 1 in. to 100 English miles. Projection not given.
Identifier: islandora:29918

Title: Williston
Subject: South African War, 1899-1902 -- Maps., Williston Region (South Africa) -- Maps., Northern Cape (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: This map forms part of the Imperial map of the Cape Colony., The map shows grand trunk roads, trunk roads, branch roads, farm roads, rivers, hills, pans, railways, telegraph lines, homesteads, farm names, farm boundaries and divisional boundaries in the Williston area., Relief shown by hachures., The Imperial map of the Cape Colony was "compiled by the Field Intelligence Division or Department of the British Army in Cape Town during the second Anglo-Boer War. ... [P.H. du P.] Casgrain ... superintended its production ..." (Board, C. "Certainly better than nothing at all" : a re-examination of the Imperial map of South Africa 1899-1902. Proceedings of the 21st International Cartographic Conference, Durban, 2003. Available online: http://icaci.org/files/documents/ICC_proceedings/ICC2003/Papers/109.pdf (accessed 5 Sept. 2012))., "This map is not to be considered as absolutely accurate"., Projection not given., Co-ordinates not given., Printed in black and red., Map folds into an outer cover., The map is mounted on linen.
Identifier: islandora:24805

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