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Title: Homesteads on Fish Hoek beach, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Fish Hoek (South Africa), Beaches, Residential buildings
Description: A desolate windswept beach overlooked by two lonely homesteads: Fish Hoek beach 100 years ago.
Identifier: islandora:15006

Title: Henkie Barnard at a DTA meeting
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, man, child, group, San, indigenous, DTA, politics, building, hat, talk, meeting, Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (Namibia), Gobabis District (Namibia)
Description: Henkie Barnard with a group of people at a DTA (Democratic Turnhalle Alliance) meeting on his farm. Gobabis District, Namibia.
Identifier: islandora:11842

Title: Pinkster Protestante Kerk, Vredehoek, Cape Town, 1969
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Religion, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: Pastor Andrew Bester outside his church at Vredehoek.
Identifier: islandora:17317

Title: Malay Quarter, Cape Town, 1973
Subject: Bo-Kaap (Cape Town, South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Architecture, Historic buildings, Historic districts
Description: Enjoying a chat on the steps. A simple façade is a characteristic feature of [Bo-Kaap houses].
Identifier: islandora:17224

Title: Residences in Loader Street, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Residential buildings, ,
Description: The Loader Street area has been a renovator's paradise for the past few years. According to estate agent, Mr John Hocknell, property in the area is almost completely sold out and there is little still to be had. Some renovated properties are still changing hands for under R20 000 though.
Identifier: islandora:15206

Title: St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture
Description: St. George's Cathedral: there is a peaceful country flavour about this picture of St. George's Cathedral.
Identifier: islandora:17313

Title: Jonas Savimbi's former residence
Subject: ruinsRuined buildings--Angola, Children
Description: The former residence of Jonas Savimbi, former leader of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA).
Identifier: islandora:8300

Title: Victorian House, Gardens, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Gardens (Cape Town, South Africa), Residential buildings, Architecture
Description: Victorian house in Glynville Terrace, Gardens.
Identifier: islandora:15161

Title: Insurance plan of Cape Town
Subject: Insurance -- South Africa -- Cape Town -- Maps., Fire risk assessment -- South Africa -- Cape Town -- Maps., Historic buildings -- South Africa -- Cape Town -- Maps., Cape Town (South Africa) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Maps., Cape Town (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: Each sheet shows the plan and vertical cross-section of buildings on the blocks bounded by: Sheet 1, Wale, St George's, Waterkant and Adderley streets; Sheet 2, Wale, Burg, Waterkant and St George's streets; Sheet 3, Wale, Long, Waterkant and Burg streets; Sheet 4, Wale, Loop, Waterkant and Long streets; Sheet 5, Wale, Bree, Waterkant and Loop streets; Sheet 6, Wale, Buitengracht, Waterkant and Bree streets; Sheet 7, Boom, Plein, Darling and Zieke streets; Sheet 8, Stal, Grave, Darling and Plein streets; Sheet 9, Garden of new Houses of Parliament, Adderley Street, Standard Bank buildings and Grave Street., Each sheet indicates the materials used in the construction of buildings, the uses of most buildings, height in stories, roof type and street widths., Black and white photographic copies. The original plan is colour coded.
Identifier: islandora:19908

Title: Hessen Bros, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Suburbs, Buildings, Roads, Infrastructure, Residential buildings
Description: Shop: Hessen Bros.
Identifier: islandora:16599

Title: Houses in Burton Street, Maitland, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Residential buildings, , ,
Description: Old houses in Burton Street Maitland provisionally occupied by N/White groups.
Identifier: islandora:15197

Title: Women in Kuito, Angola clearing the street of debri
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Buildings--War damage--Angola--Kuito, Women--Angola,
Description: Women in the town of Kuito in the Bié Province of Angola clear the streets of war debri after União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (UNITA) were driven from the city in deadly street-to-street battles, 1994.
Identifier: islandora:7024

Title: Diep River cottage being rebuilt, Cape Town
Subject: Diep River (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Historic buildings, Architecture, Building
Description: Diep River cottage in the process of being rebuilt.
Identifier: islandora:17948

Title: Adderley Street, Cape Town, 1954
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Architecture, Urban development, City planning
Description: Bird's-eye view of Adderley Street, Cape Town, in the mid-1950s, before development on the newly-reclaimed Foreshore.
Identifier: islandora:17368

Title: La Garonne Manor House, Franschhoek
Subject: 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. Preliminary sketch plan of proposed landscaping., Original, hand-drawn, ink on tracing paper.
Identifier: islandora:28018

Title: Building ruins
Subject: AfghanisRuined buildings--Afghanistan, Apartment houses, Children, Afghans
Description: Children stand outside the ruins of an apartment block.
Identifier: islandora:8330

Title: Former YMCA and home of the Space Theatre, corner of Long and Hout Streets, Cape Town, 1976
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Theatre, Performing arts, Youth
Description: The YMCA building on the corner of Hout and Long Streets, Cape Town, built in 1883 and occupied by the Space Theatre in the 1970s.
Identifier: islandora:17514

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