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Title: Poor housing construction in Langa township, Cape Town
Subject: Langa (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Housing, Townships, Apartheid, Building, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: Living dangerously? Mr John Qhamfu leans out of the window of his Langa home, which seems in imminent danger of collapsing, and for which the Ikapa Town Council has finally voted R70 000 to fix.
Identifier: islandora:15839

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: 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: Construction workers on site at the Golden Acre, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Labour, Apartheid, Building, Commerce, City planning
Description: A study in maximum effort - captured yesterday by Cape Times photographer John van der Linde on the Golden Acre site in Adderley Street.
Identifier: islandora:15876

Title: Old wine cellar at Koornhoop in Mowbray, Cape Town
Subject: Historic buildings, Residential buildings, Farmhouses, Dovecotes, ,
Description: The old wine cellar at Koornhoop, Mowbray. It was later decided not to proclaim the house and wine cellar, as it would cost too much to keep them in repair, so only the dovecote and gables were proclaimed. This dovecote was said to be the only one of its kind in South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:15428

Title: School in Noordhoek, Cape Town
Subject: Residential buildings, Historic buildings, Education, ,
Description: School at Noordhoek, favourite resting place for motorists.
Identifier: islandora:15566

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:19906

Title: Bloubergstrand, Cape Town
Subject: Bloubergstrand (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Buildings, City planning, Urban development, Environment
Description: High-rise development at Blouberg, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16891

Title: Gabled building at Zandvliet farm, Cape Town
Subject: Historic buildings, ,
Description: The original gabled building dating back to 1699 at Zandvliet farm.
Identifier: islandora:15185

Title: Houses in Wale Street / Waal Straat in the Malayan Quarter, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Malay, Residential buildings, Home, ,
Description: Houses in Wale Street / Waal Straat in the Malayan Quarter, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:15171

Title: Skeleton, Blouberg, Cape Town
Subject: Bloubergstrand (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Labour, Apartheid, South African Police, Crimes, Building
Description: A building worker, Mr Albert Tshotho, of Guguletu, with the skeleton which was uncovered at a site in Sir David Baird Drive, Bloubergstrand, yesterday. Police are investigating.
Identifier: islandora:16888

Title: Land reclamation, Foreshore, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Aerial views, Urban development, City planning, Building
Description: Cape Town Harbour and reclaimed land on the Foreshore, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17143

Title: Rondebosch Main Road, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Traders, Informal sector (Economics), Markets, History, Buildings, Suburbs
Description: Flower sellers bargain in Belmont Road. In the background is the old fountain, once the drinking place for horses.
Identifier: islandora:16611

Title: The first single-decker trams in Adderley Street, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Transport, Historic buildings, Photography, Media
Description: Picture history of Mother City - "Cape Town down the years", the Cape Times photographic exhibition, is to be officially opened by the Mayor of Cape Town, Mr John Tyers, at the Shell Gallery in Greenmarket Square on Wednesday, April 6. The exhibition, which consists of about 160 photographs, will remain open from April 7 to 29 as part of the Cape Town Festival. The gallery will be closed on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays. The picture above was taken about 80 years ago in Adderley Street, when the first single-deck trams were introduced in the City. (Published 1 April, 1977)
Identifier: islandora:17341

Title: Mansion on Beach Road in Muizenberg, Cape Town
Subject: Property, Residential buildings, Mansions, ,
Description: House of many archways and balconies has had its valuation increased from £23,530 to £37,175. It is Mymering, Beach Road, Muizenberg, home of Mrs F.M.E Schlesinger. It has 17 rooms, two bathrooms and two kitchens. One room is used as an art gallery. The increase in valuation is now the subject of an objection before the Valuation Court. The figures include the valuation of the site and all the buildings on it.
Identifier: islandora:15416

Title: St. Thomas Church, Rondebosch, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), circa 1920, Church buildings, Architecture
Description: St Thomas Church, Rondebosch. The church as it is today, seen from almost the same angle. Though the photograph was taken in 1920, there have been no structural changes since then.
Identifier: islandora:16623

Title: Steam trains at Cape Town Station, circa 1900
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Trains, Historic buildings, Transport, Architecture
Description: Left: Wynberg Tower Cape 3rd Class, 1898. Right: Wynberg Tank Class 02, 1882.
Identifier: islandora:17414

Title: Bell for St. Martin's Lutheran Church, Cape Town, circa 1961
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Church bells, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: Weighing more than one ton, this church bell, cast in Germany, will be hung in the German Lutheran Church (St. Martin's), Long Street. Discussing ways of getting the bell into the tower are (from left) Mr P. E. Ulm, Mr W. Nossek, Mr K. H. Naumann, pastor at the church, and Mr C. A. Angermann, representative in Cape Town of the bell manufacturers.
Identifier: islandora:17277

Title: 17th century water canal, Adderley Street, Cape Town, 1982
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Water, Archaeology, Building, Urban development
Description: Water canal found in city: Council workers laying water pipes in Adderley Street stopped digging when archaeologist, Miss Gabebah Abrahams peered down the hole and discovered a 17th century water canal. Miss Abrahams, 25, who says she makes a habit of looking into holes, saw a levelling of stone where the workers were digging which seemed to be a wall. Further excavations unearthed a canal which seems to connect to the wall. The canal runs under Adderley Street and joins up with canals running from Government Avenue up Wale Street to Long Street and Buitengracht Street. CASTLE: The mortar and brickwork is the same as the wall of Wagenaar's Reservoir, unearthed in the Golden Acre. Miss Abrahams said it was of the same period as the Castle and was probably built in the 17th century during the Dutch occupation of the Cape. "There used to be a moat around the Houses of Parliament. The ducts could have led into this to carry water off", she said. "This is one of the oldest structures in Cape Town . People are digging up valuable cultural and historical material all the time and they don't know about it. We are losing the history of Cape Town", she added. Miss Abrahams also found some clay pipe, an old bottle base, porcelain, bone and pottery, which date back to the 17th century. The porcelain is the same type as that discovered in the Golden Acre. Some of the canal will be demolished when the City Council lays water pipes.
Identifier: islandora:17490

Title: Baptist Church at Meadowridge, Cape Town, 1966
Subject: Meadowridge (Cape Town, South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: Baptist Church at Meadowridge, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:17337

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