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Title: German East Africa. Neu-Langenburg
Subject: Tukuyu Region (Tanzania) -- Maps., German East Africa -- Maps.
Description: Map showing towns, villages, international boundaries, railways, roads, tracks, telegraph lines, post and telegraph offices, heights in metres above sea level, mission stations, ruins, and "Mbuga" ("Low Country, often swampy in rainy season") in the Neu-Langenburg area., Relief shown by form lines and spot heights., Projection not given., Grid reference: G.F.C., Index no.: F3.
Identifier: islandora:24790

Title: Map of the Union of South Africa
Subject: South Africa--Description and travel--Maps, , , , ,
Description: Map of the Union of South Africa showing the South East part, with parts of the Orange Free State, Cape of Good Hope, Natal, and Basutoland, international and provincial boundaries, districts, towns and villages, railways, roads, and rivers. Coloured. Relief shown by hypsometric tints. Scale: 1:1,000,000.
Identifier: islandora:29933

Title: Bain's railway map of South Africa
Subject: Railroads -- South Africa -- Maps., Steamboat lines -- South Africa -- Maps., Postal service -- South Africa -- Maps., South Africa -- Maps.
Description: Map of South Africa indicating which railway lines were in operation, which were under construction and which had been authorised. The map also shows cities, towns, roads and rivers, the mail routes and steamer routes (with distances in miles)., Insets: Railways around Johannesburg. Scale [ca. 1:950 400] -- Natal railways. Scale [ca. 1:4 828 032] -- The Cape Peninsula. Scale [ca. 1:402 336] -- [Africa] -- Untitled inset map showing the northern extension of the railway lines from Mafeking to Bulawayo, Salisbury [Harare], Mazoe and Umtali [Mutare] in Rhodesia [Zimbabwe], and to Beira in Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique]., "Through all booksellers or from John G. Bain, St. George's Hotel Buildings, Church Street, Cape Town, C.C.", Map folds into a cover.
Identifier: islandora:19523

Title: [Map of the Caledon division]
Subject: Caledon (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: Map of the division of Caledon giving cadastral details including farm boundaries, farm names, quitrent and field-cornetcy numbers. Also shown are Caledon, Stanford, Genadendal, Hawston, Hermanus Peters Fontein, Sandown Bay, Walker Bay, the wreck of the Kitty, Dyer Island, Geyser Island, Stanford Cove, Hydra Bay, hills, mountains and mountain passes, rivers and vleis., Relief shown by contours and shading.
Identifier: islandora:19600

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., Text in English and Afrikaans., Dimensions of the printed sheets: 97 x 67 cm., The library does not hold a printed set of the 1950 edition of this map. Digital copies of sheets AH-1BA, AH-1BB, AH-1BD, AH-1DB, AH-2AA, AH-2AC, BH-7DB, BH-7DD, BH-8CC and BH-8CC have been made available through the generosity of the Environmental Resource Management Department of the Cape Town City Council.
Identifier: islandora:19885

Title: Plan of the drift sands near Port Elizabeth
Subject: Sand dune management--South Africa--Port Elizabeth--Maps,
Description: A map showing the physical features of the drift sands in relation to Algoa Bay and the town of Port Elizabeth. Chiefly colour. Scale 1/8 inch to 100 Cape roods and 6/8 inch to 1 mile.
Identifier: islandora:25175

Title: Geological map of Natal
Subject: Geology -- South Africa -- KwaZulu-Natal -- Maps., KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: The map shows the following mineral deposits: cretaceous & recent, ryolites, amygdaloids, Stormberg beds, Beaufort beds, Natal coal measures, Ecca shales, dwyke conglomerates, Table Mountain or Waterberg sandstones, banket formation, granite, gneiss, Hornblende schist and schist (mostly chloritic or talcose). The map also shows faults, railways, districts, towns, roads, spruits, rivers and mountains., Projection not given.
Identifier: islandora:19689

Title: Pretoria
Subject: Transvaal (South Africa) -- Maps., Pretoria Region (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: Rev. temporary ed. Apr. 1905., Map of the Pretoria area showing territorial boundaries, district boundaries, ward boundaries, townlands, "locations", farm names, beacons and boundaries (with sub-divisions, if any), railways under traffic, railway stations, roads, pans, mines, rivers and dams., Relief shown by contours and spot heights., "Computed and compiled from the Farm Surveys of the Transvaal and all available material.", "Revised 1st October 1903. Revised temporary Edition, April, 1905.", Folds into an outer cover (19 x 13 cm.)., MS annotations on map.
Identifier: islandora:19802

Title: Cape of Good Hope. Victoria West
Subject: Victoria West Region (South Africa) -- Maps., Northern Cape (South Africa) -- Maps., Western Cape (South Africa) -- Maps., Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: Topographical map indicating Victoria West and other towns and villages, roads, railways, rivers, mountains, dunes and other features in the area surrounding Victoria West., Relief shown by contours, form lines and spot heights., Projection not given., Includes index to adjoining sheets., Sheet South H-34/X., Mounted on cloth.
Identifier: islandora:24937

Title: Divisional map of Uniondale
Subject: Schools--South Africa--Uniondale--Maps,
Description: A map of the Division of Union in the Cape Colony showing schools in existence with number of children and proposed centres for schools, with divisional and field cornetcy boundaries, railways, main, divisional, ordinary and branch roads, commonages, outspans, towns and villages and railway stations and rivers. Some colour. Scale 1 inch to 1200 Cape roods.
Identifier: islandora:25105

Title: Klerksdorp
Subject: Klerksdorp Region (South Africa) -- Maps., Free State (South Africa) -- Maps., North-West (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: Topographical map indicating towns, railways, farms, mountains, rivers and other watering places in the area of Klerksdorp., Relief shown by contours., Projection not given., Map folds into an outer cover., Includes index to adjoining sheets., Printed on cloth.
Identifier: islandora:24958

Title: S.A.R. Schroeders to Harburg inspection
Subject: Railroads--South Africa--KwaZulu-Natal--Maps,
Description: Map showing approximate routes and proposed routes of railways in Natal from Schroeders to Singletree, Singletree to near One House, via Harburg, Singletree to near One House via Fawn Leas and from Dalton to near One House, with place names, towns, lot numbers. Some colour. Scale 1 inch to the mile.
Identifier: islandora:19338

Title: Mossel Bay & Oudtshoorn rly. survey : general plan of proposed line
Subject: Railroads--South Africa--Western Cape--Maps,
Description: A map with the coastline, rivers, place names, relief represented by hachures, showing the proposed railway line. Some colour. No scale given.
Identifier: islandora:25161

Title: Cape of Good Hope, St. John's River (Umzimvubu)
Subject: Mzimvubu River (South Africa)--Maps, Port Saint Johns (South Africa)--Maps, Pondoland (South Africa)--Maps,
Description: A map of St. John's River with hydrographic information on river soundings and sea miles. "Soundings in feet reduced to low-water ordinary springs." The land along the river has relief shown by contours, shading and pictorially. Place names are Cape Hermes and Fort Harrison. There is a rectilineal figure lettered a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, x, m and n, plus points j, k and l. "The stations a ti I, x, m, are laid down from co-ordinates furnished by Mr. F. S. Watermeyer, Govt. Surveyor, and the stations j, k, l are scaled from his lithographed map and were fixed by compass bearings only by Lt. Cameron RE." The boundary from station m encloses with the river the area purchased from Umquilso by the Cape Government. Scale 1 inch to 1200 feet.
Identifier: islandora:25068

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:19846

Title: Mount Huxely
Subject: South African War, 1899-1902 -- Maps., Mount Huxley 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 Mount Huxley 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., Printed in black and red., This map contains fewer details than the Mount Huxley maps, "Copyright, F.I.D. Cape Town, Sept. 1901.", Map folds into an outer cover., The map is mounted on linen.
Identifier: islandora:24840

Title: Little Namaqualand
Subject: Namaqualand (South Africa) -- Maps., Namaqualand (South Africa) -- Discovery and exploration -- Maps.
Description: Manuscript map of Little Namaqualand, from the mouth of the Orange River in the north to Piquetberg in the south, indicating early expeditions including those of Jan Danckert (1660), Olof Berg (1683) and Simon van der Stel (1685). The map also indicates the border of the Colony up to 1840, Great Namaqualand (as far as Nisbet Warmbad and Oubees or Africaners Kraal), the Great Aughrabies Falls, Port Nolloth (Robbe Bay), Springbok, Bushmanland, Bowesdorp, Hondeklip Bay, Van Rhyns Dorp, the Olifant's River and Clanwilliam., Map encapsulated in mylar.
Identifier: islandora:19686

Title: Laingsburg
Subject: South African War, 1899-1902 -- Maps., Laingsburg Region (South Africa) -- Maps., Western Cape (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: This map forms part of the Imperial map of the Cape Colony., The map shows roads, rivers, hills, pans, railways, homesteads, farm names, farm boundaries and divisional boundaries in the Laingsburg 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 only., Map folds into an outer cover., The map is mounted on linen.
Identifier: islandora:24832

Title: Divisional map of Pearston
Subject: Pearston Region (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: Map of the division of Pearston giving cadastral details including farm boundaries, farm names and quitrent numbers. Also shown are divisional and field cornetcy boundaries, the village of Pearston, main and ordinary roads and rivers.
Identifier: islandora:24879

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: This plan is numbered Sheet 13. The sheet shows details of the construction and use of buildings within the area bounded by Queen Victoria, Bloem, Bree and Wale Streets. The sheet records 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., "Copyright 1949". Handwritten: "Rev'd to Sept 1956"., The original sheet has been updated by the pasting of new sections over the original plan.
Identifier: islandora:19896

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