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Title: Proposal to establish a Dental School and the University of Cape Town, 1921.
Subject: University of Cape Town--History.
Description: Draft of a 1921 report with notes re the establishment of a Dental School at the University of Cape Town. Matthew Drennan was a member of the Committee.
Identifier: islandora:20991

Title: Plan of Cape Town and environs lithographed for G[eorge] Greig's Cape of Good Hope Directory & Almanac
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: Scale on map: Two furlongs or quarter of an English mile [= 2 inches]; scale of English yards [ca. 1 inch to 220 yards]., Restored and hinged between acid free boards., Block plan of Cape Town, showing part of Table Bay, streets and buildings with a key to 30 of the buildings depicted on the map, inter alia, hospitals, the Slave Lodge and the Menagerie on Orange Street, the Public Offices (in the old Slave Lodge building in Adderley Street), "Tot Nut van het Algemeen" school (in the building previously occupied by the Merchant Seaman's Hospital), South African College, the prison, police station, army barracks, churches and chapels., Additional key indicates the location of several cemeteries and other features viz. St Andrew's Church burial place, Mr Collison's premises, the Lutheran burial place, extension to Somerset Hospital, the Reformed Church burial place, Mr Meyer's property and the Episcopal Church burial place., Inset: "Table Mountain from Table Bay [showing] A. Devil's Mountain; B. Table Mountain; C. Lion's Head; D. Lion's Rump."
Identifier: islandora:19929

Title: Studio photo of Edith Sorrell (née Bruch) and son, Roger Sorrell, Cape Town, 1940
Subject: Bruch, Edith, Sorrell, Roger, Sorrell family, Mothers and sons--South Africa--Cape Town,
Description: A studio photo of Edith Sorrell (née Bruch) and Roger Sorrell, her first son (born 1940), taken on 6 November 1940, Cape Town. The photo is inscribed on the back.
Identifier: islandora:29851

Title: Plan of Cape Town of [circa] 1804
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: Map shows the centre of Cape Town bounded by Buyte Gragt [Buitengracht Street], Water Kant [Waterkant Street], Buyte Kant [Buitenkant Street] and Porquet Straat [Bouquet Street]. The unnamed cartographer included the names of squares (Boeren Plyn, Groene Plyn, Parade Plaats, Hospitaal Pleyn, Kerk Pleyn, Stal Plyn), the Company Gardens and street names., Photocopy. Possibly copied from a photographic copy of an 1804 plan of Cape Town in the Western Cape Archives (M337).
Identifier: islandora:19924

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: Adderley and Strand Streets intersection, Cape Town, 1930s
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Transport, Urban development, City planning, Roads
Description: Adderley Street and Strand Street intersection in the early 1930s with the old station and post office in the left background. The shot features our Leyland single decker and single deck trams used at that time on the Sea Point service. Archives.
Identifier: islandora:17356

Title: Women waiting, 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 group of women wait patiently in a room. District Six, Cape Town in the 1970's prior to the state orchestrated forced removals to locations further from the city.
Identifier: islandora:18530

Title: Mourning mother, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: Race discrimination--South Africa--Cape Town, Apartheid--South Africa--Cape Town, Education--South Africa--Cape Town, Demonstrations--South Africa--Cape Town, Mothers--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: As police arrest anti-apartheid demonstrating schoolchildren, a defiant mother gives a power salute as she mourns her son's arrest, October 1985, Wynberg, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:5339

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, Rubble--South Africa--Cape Town, Winer Batch01, ,
Description: Demolition in progress, District Six, 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:12527

Title: Devil's Peak, Cape Town, 1950
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Weather, Environment, Botanical gardens
Description: Looking as though covered in a light fall of snow, the lower slopes of Devil's Peak, above De Waal Drive, are carpeted with spring daisies.
Identifier: islandora:17512

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: City of Cape Town and environs
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa) -- Maps., Cape Town Metropolitan Area (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: This 1937 monochrome map shows the central business district and the peri-urban and suburban areas of Cape Town including Gardens, Oranjezicht, Vredehoek, Tamboers Kloof, Woodstock, Salt River, Brooklyn, Good Hope model village, Milnerton, Paarden Eiland, Maitland, certificate of registered title for Montagu Gardens, Sanddrift, 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, Observatory, Mowbray, Rosebank, Rondebosch, Groote Schuur Estate, Kirstenbosch, Newlands, Claremont, Kenilworth, Constantia, Wynberg, Plumstead, Diep River, Heathfield, Retreat, Lotus River, Schaap Kraal, Tokai, Silvermine, Ronde Vlei, Zeekoe Vlei, Grassy Park, Strandfontein Coast Forest Reserve, Montagu's Gift, Ilfracombe Estate, Dreyersdal, Lakeside, Muizenberg, St James, Kalk Bay, Clovelly, Fish Hoek, Glencairn, Red Hill, Simonstown, Simon's Bay, Kommetjie, Sweet Water, Witsands, Noordhoek, Scarborough, Hout Bay, Chapman's Peak, Kronendal, Oude Kraal, Bakoven, Camps Bay, Clifton, Sea Point, Fresnaye, Green Point, Mouille Point and Table Bay harbour., The map also shows municipalities, streets, buildings, erven with property numbers, "native locations", Table Mountain, the Twelve Apostles and other mountains, rivers and dams, salt pans, forested areas, sports and recreation grounds, Kenilworth Race Course, golf courses, aerodromes (including the air mail aerodrome site), hospitals and sanatoria including Groote Schuur, Valkenberg, Rentzkie's Farm Isolation hospital, Oude Molen Mental Hospital, the Alexandra Institution and the Chronic Sick home, churches, railway lines, railway stations, power stations, the zoo, the University of Cape Town, lighthouses, cemeteries and burial grounds., Relief shown pictorially., Text in English and Afrikaans., Dimensions of the printed sheets: 89 x 113 cm. or smaller., The library does not hold a full printed set of the 1937 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:19865

Title: Dockworkers march, Cape Town
Subject: Demonstrations--South Africa--Cape Town, Political participation--South Africa--Cape Town,
Description: Dockworkers stage a protest in Cape Town in the 1980's.
Identifier: islandora:5197

Title: Residents at their homes, 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: Residents stand around their homes and washing hangs on the front veranda of adjoined houses in District Six, Cape Town in the 1970's prior to the state orchestrated forced removals to locations further from the city.
Identifier: islandora:18545

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: 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: Unfinished freeway, Cape Town, 1979
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Local government, City planning, Urban development, Environment
Description: The road to nowhere: unfinished freeway on the Foreshore, Cape Town, 1979
Identifier: islandora:17488

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