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Title: Apartheid-era public library at Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Architecture, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Children, Education
Description: Bellville public library in the mid-1960s.
Identifier: islandora:16803

Title: Cape Town Station forecourt, 1968
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Architecture, Building, Transport
Description: Forecourt of the new Cape Town Station, 1968.
Identifier: islandora:17440

Title: Dreyer Street, Claremont, Cape Town
Subject: Parking (area), Streets, Claremont (Cape Town, South Africa), Landscape architecture--South Africa--Cape Town,
Description: Dreyer Street, Claremont, Cape Town. Layout of parking bays., Original, hand-drawn, ink on tracing paper., Plan: scale 1:100
Identifier: islandora:22388

Title: St. Saviour's Anglican Church, Claremont, Cape Town, 1961
Subject: Claremont (Cape Town, South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: St. Saviour's Church, Claremont, stands on five acres of lawns and trees. The original church, which was consecrated in 1850, was made of rough mountain stone and had a thatched roof. Since then six bays, a new chancel, a lady chapel and vestry accommodation have been added.
Identifier: islandora:17298

Title: Cape Town City
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Urban areas, Infrastructure, Architecture, Land, Development
Description: Foreshore
Identifier: islandora:15083

Title: St Paul's Anglican Church, Signal Hill, Cape Town, 1961
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: St. Paul's was consecrated in 1880 and serves a large Anglican community living in the city and on the slopes of Signal Hill. Built in traditional English style, it has seating for 900 people and on high festivals there is standing room only.
Identifier: islandora:17282

Title: Wale Street Baptist Church, Cape Town, 1965
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Demolition
Description: Another landmark to go: the Baptist Church in Wale Street which will be closing next Sunday and moving to new premises in Orange Street, where services will be conducted for the first time on March 14. The Wale Street building will taken over by a property firm and demolished.
Identifier: islandora:17291

Title: Foreshore, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Urban areas, Infrastructure, Architecture, Land, Urban development, Building
Description: Foreshore
Identifier: islandora:15095

Title: The Coloured Representative Council (CRC) building, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Gardens, Architecture, Landscapes
Description: Coloured Representative Council building - symbol of apartheid.
Identifier: islandora:16002

Title: Arrivals lounge at D.Fa. Malan Airport, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town International Airport, Apartheid, Travel, Architecture
Description: The arrivals lounge at D.F. Malan Airport in the late 1980s, before implementation of the airport's successive re-development plans
Identifier: islandora:15881

Title: Parliament at night, Cape Town
Subject: South Africa. Parliament, Legislation, Architecture, ,
Description: Parliament at night, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:15715

Title: Man stands at control desk of a train station, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Railroads, Transport, Communication and technology, Architecture, Interior decoration
Description: Control desks and signal diagram in the new Cape Town Cabin seen during a test of the installation.
Identifier: islandora:16161

Title: Dutch Reformed Church, Vredelust, Cape Town, 1957
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: Typical of the modern architectural styles at Vredelust are [from left] the Dutch Reformed church [a timber-gabled home and a glass-walled lounge].
Identifier: islandora:17294

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 the Castle, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:17111

Title: Demolition of the old railway station, Cape Town, 1968
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Demolition, Architecture, Urban development, City planning
Description: Down it comes: A workman, perched about 40 ft. above the ground, uses an oxy-acetylene torch to cut through one of the steel girders which supported the curved roof of the main hall of Cape Town's old railway station. A foreman on the site said yesterday that demolition of the building is expected to be completed by the end of this month.
Identifier: islandora:17401

Title: Central Cape Town, 1948
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), City planning, Urban development, Architecture, Building
Description: Cape Town's changing skyline: the changing sky-line of the centre of Cape Town is emphasised in this picture, taken yesterday from the top of the Colosseum building. The massive new business block on the old G.P.O. site in Adderley Street (seen on right) has already reached its designed height of eight stories, rising 120 feet from street level. Before final completion next year, however, this imposing city block will have two 40-feet corner towers on the roof fronting Adderley Street, making an [WORD CUT OFF] height of 160 feet from [WORD CUT OFF] to pavement. Although this building will still be dwarfed by the S. A. Mutual, whose pinnacle (seen in background) is 276 feet above the street level, and by the new Post Office (to the left), the trio of buildings already obliterate many familiar vistas when viewed from the angle of street pedestrians. The City Hall (on extreme left) appears very small by comparison. The railway station building (in foreground) will eventually disappear to provide for the Strand-street extension under the new Foreshore scheme.
Identifier: islandora:17343

Title: Aerial view of Cape Town city centre, 1968
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Architecture, City planning, Urban development, Commerce
Description: An impressive photograph of the new heart of Cape Town, by A. J. Musgrave-Newton. It shows the dynamic growth that is taking place on and near the Foreshore. The two new Mobil and Trust Bank "Towers" can be easily recognized. What is not easily apparent is that this is Cape Town. Cars crowd the open spaces like so many beans in rows.
Identifier: islandora:17089

Title: Robben Island Primary School, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Robben Island (South Africa), Historic sites, Monuments, Architecture, Education
Description: Headmaster: Robben Island Primary School principal, Mr Jors de Ridder, and his three teachers, Mrs Christa de Lange, left, Mrs Marina Kitshoff and Mrs Maggie Viviers, and the school's 65 pupils.
Identifier: islandora:16508

Title: St. George's Street, Cape Town, circa 1930s
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Architecture, Motorcars, Roads
Description: Night time scene on St George's Street, Cape Town, circa 1930s.
Identifier: islandora:17379

Title: Clock tower, Bellville Civic Centre, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Local government, Civil services, Architecture, Afrikaners
Description: The pulse of civic life in Bellville - the Civic Centre with its impressive clock tower.
Identifier: islandora:16791

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