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Title: A bicycle and a beetle parked on the roadside, District Six, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--Social conditions, District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--History, Cape Town (South Africa)--History, ,
Description: A bicycle and a beetle are parked on the roadside in front of apartment buildings in District Six, Cape Town in the 1970's prior to the state orchestrated forced removals to locations further from the city.
Identifier: islandora:18541

Title: Long Street, Cape Town, 1981
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Abortion, Architecture
Description: Passers-by inspect the building from which the concrete veranda collapsed last Friday. Some tenants say the four buildings to the left are in disrepair and 'should be condemned'.
Identifier: islandora:17451

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: 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:19860

Title: Apartheid signage, Cape Town 1964
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Apartheid, Race discrimination, Transport, Railways
Description: Ticket offices for whites only, Cape Town Station, 1964.
Identifier: islandora:17425

Title: Map to illustrate analyses of grain soils (Cape & Malmesbury Divisions), showing localities where samples were collected for analysis
Subject: Soil surveys--South Africa--Cape Town--Maps, Soil surveys--South Africa--Malmesbury--Maps, Farms--South Africa--Cape Town--Maps, Farms--South Africa--Malmesbury--Maps, , ,
Description: A map of the farms in the Cape and Malmesbury Divisions, with placenames and localities.
Identifier: islandora:25147

Title: Symphonic groove, Baxter Concert Hall, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: Concert programs, Concerts--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: Concert programme
Identifier: islandora:30300

Title: Showing the larger portion of the Municipality of Greater Cape Town (Camps Bay to Wynberg Inclusive)
Subject: City planning--South Africa--Cape Town--Maps, National parks and reserves--South Africa--Cape Town--Maps,
Description: Map showing the larger portion of the Municipality of Greater Cape Town, with ward boundaries, ward names and numbers, roads, railways, streets and street names, reservoirs, forest areas and reserves, mountains, parks and sports grounds, building sites, government properties, open spaces, harbour, and rivers. Relief shown by contours. Coloured. Scale: 4 in. to 1 English mile. No projection given.
Identifier: islandora:29942

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

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:19907

Title: Oldest orphanage in Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Architecture, Children, Education, Demolition
Description: A very early photograph shows Cape Town's oldest orphanage, the Weeshuis, designed in 1800. Later it was used to house certain classes for the South African College - and still later, in 1947, became a dairy. The building no longer stands.
Identifier: islandora:17180

Title: Vineyard Hotel, Newlands, Cape Town
Subject: Vineyard Hotel (Cape Town, South Africa), Hotels--Landscape architecture--South Africa--Cape Town--Designs and plans,
Description: Vineyard Hotel, Newlands, Cape Town. Landscape development. Sketch plan of phase two., Sepia copy, hand-drawn, ink on tracing paper.
Identifier: islandora:27951

Title: Bo-Kaap, Cape Town, 1990s
Subject: Bo-Kaap (Cape Town, South Africa), Architecture, Tourism, Community development, Women
Description: Balcony and façade of a house in the Bo-Kaap.
Identifier: islandora:17232

Title: Cape Times crest, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Architecture, Business, Media, Design
Description: Cape Times crest on the Parow works office tower.
Identifier: islandora:17029

Title: Longmarket Street, Cape Town, circa 1930s.
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Commerce, Architecture, Roads, Motorcars
Description: Spraklens Department Store (left), on Longmarket Street, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:17377

Title: View of the City Bowl, Cape Town, in 1899
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), City planning, Urban development, Environment, Architecture
Description: Cape Town from Signal Hill, 1899.
Identifier: islandora:17051

Title: St. Francis Church, Simonstown, Cape Town, 1961
Subject: Simon's Town (Cape Town , South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: This is how the motorist entering Simonstown from the North sees St. Francis Church. The belfry was an addition in 1880 when the church was altered and turned about.
Identifier: islandora:17318

Title: District Six, Cape Town, 1974-1975
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions, District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Apartheid--South Africa--Cape Town, Housing--South Africa--Cape Town, Children--South Africa--Cape Town, Winer Batch01
Description: District Six partly demolished, Cape Town, circa 1974-1975. Taken during the final stage of removal of 6000 families from District Six, for relocation to the Cape Flats and Atlantis, in terms of the Group Areas Act.
Identifier: islandora:279

Title: Long Street, Cape Town,
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Motorcars, Architecture, Urban development, Business
Description: View up Long Street, Cape Town, towards Table Mountain.
Identifier: islandora:17459

Title: Groote Kerk, Cape Town, 1959
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Religion, City planning, Urban development, Architecture
Description: Aerial view of the Groote Kerk from Adderley Street, Cape Town, 1959
Identifier: islandora:17158

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