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Title: Agricultural land scheduled for housing development, Bergvliet, Cape Town
Subject: Bergvliet (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Townships, Urban development, Apartheid, Whites, Environment
Description: Tasting the grapes. The Old Mutual is undertaking another residential township project at Bergvliet, Cape. Some 100 building plots are planned. Ninety will be laid out on what is now farmland. Here Maureen Hodgson, Carol Waylett and Joan Opperman are tasting the grapes.
Identifier: islandora:16848

Title: Cape Town City
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Urban areas, Infrastructure, Architecture, Land, Development, Traffic congestion
Description: Cape Town's most pressing problem: (Above) Cars seek refuge illegally on the Foreshore, with its many acres of vacant land.
Identifier: islandora:15077

Title: Salt River Power Station, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Salt River (Cape Town, South Africa), Urban areas, Infrastructure, Electric industries
Description: Salt River Power Station.
Identifier: islandora:18118

Title: Newlands House, Newlands, Cape Town, 1934
Subject: Newlands (Cape Town, South Africa), Historic buildings, Urban development
Description: Newlands House in Newlands Avenue, Cape Town, before the front door was moved to the back of the house after the estate's sub-division in 1938.
Identifier: islandora:17477

Title: Foundation-stone for Van Rieebeck Festival's Gateway to Africa, Cape Town, 1952
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Afrikaner nationalism, Urban development
Description: The foundation-stone for the Gateway to Africa stands protected by a strong wire fence, but whipped by loose sand and rain in a desolate part of the Foreshore. The stone, then surrounded by the pageantry of the Van Riebeeck Festival, was laid on April 5 by a boy scout, a girl guide and a Voortrekker boy and girl. No decision has been made about making a start on building the monumental approach on the Foreshore.
Identifier: islandora:17116

Title: Long Street, Cape Town, circa 1900
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Architecture, Urban development, Commerce, Roads
Description: Long Street near the turn of the century. The building in the middle still houses John Marcus and Son.
Identifier: islandora:17362

Title: Foreshore freeway construction, Cape Town City
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Urban areas, Land, Urban development, Infrastructure, Transport, Building
Description: View of the Foreshore, Cape Town, shows progress on the freeways. At the start of the major contract, which will provide about 1 km of elevated dual carriageways parallel to the harbour fence, Murray & Stewart (Cape Town) offered to cut six months from the contract time. Three years later, with allowable extensions, they are still ahead of that speeded-up schedule. This means that the project should be completed in September 1976. Allowing for escalation, the total value of the work now being handled on the freeways will be in the region of R21-million.
Identifier: islandora:15125

Title: Deserted village, Robben Island, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Robben Island (South Africa), Historic sites, Monuments, Urban areas, Development, Roads
Description: The deserted village - a street scene in Robben Island.
Identifier: islandora:16539

Title: High Constantia, Constantia, Cape Town, 1954
Subject: Constantia (Cape Town South Africa), Colonialism, Culture, Historic buildings, Urban development
Description: Rambling High Constantia, built by Robertson Fuller Bertram early this century, with its chimneys and gables. High Constantia - it has 29 bedrooms - [?] six acres of land was brought today (subject to confirmation) by Mr Duncan Taylor for - 0, 100[?] The seller was the Royal Institute of International Affairs, which received the property as a gift from Sir Henry Price, one of the founders of the Institute. The auctioneers were Zoutendyk and Brand, Ltd.
Identifier: islandora:17467

Title: Koeberg intersection, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), c1973, Urban areas, Development, Transport, Motorcars, Railways
Description: Koeberg intersection, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16559

Title: Camps Bay, Cape Town, 1946
Subject: Camps Bay (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Roads, Urban development, Commerce, Recreation,
Description: Beach Road in Camps Bay in the late 1940s
Identifier: islandora:16957

Title: Aerial view, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Urban development, Urban areas, Transport, Infrastructure, Trains
Description: Sites have been cleared for Cape Town's new railway station and the £1,180,000 S.A. Railways administrative block. They are being built on the seaward side of the present station, shown in this aerial photograph. Dominating the Foreshore is the £3,158,00 Culemborg goods terminal and sheds.
Identifier: islandora:15111

Title: View from the Railway building, Foreshore, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historical, Roads, Urban development, City planning
Description: View from the new Railway building, Foreshore, Cape Town, 1959
Identifier: islandora:17374

Title: Archaeological finds, Golden Acre site, Cape Town, 1975
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Water, Archaeology, Building, Urban development
Description: The old Heerengracht stream which flowed through this brickwork watercourse has been re-routed above the underground pedestrian walkway.
Identifier: islandora:17496

Title: Unfinished highway, Cape Town City
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Urban areas, Land, Urban development, Infrastructure, Transport
Description: Tthe western approach from Green Point above the Buitengracht intersection.
Identifier: islandora:15120

Title: Aerial view, Rondebosch Common, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Urban parks, City planning, Real estate development, Building
Description: Rondebosch Common: the clump of trees in the middle marks the site of Barnabas Shais Tabernacle and two graveyards. The aerial view of Rondebosch Common shows many of the places mentioned by Jose Burman in his article. A: The Camp Ground Road, flanked by a long strip of stone-pines. B: Park Road, running along the south side of the common. C: The newly built Milner Road North, completed in spite of the protests of lovers of the common. D: The group of pines which marks the place where the old chapel known as the Tabernacle once stood (there were also two graveyards there). E: The Red Cross Children's Hospital. F: The Rustenburg Girls' High School. The network of paths revealed by this photograph is hardly noticeable from the ground.
Identifier: islandora:16613

Title: Camps Bay and the Twelve Apostles, Cape Town, 1957
Subject: Camps Bay (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Urban development, Building, Architecture, Environment
Description: Visitors and tourists who delight in capturing with their cameras the many beauty spots of the "Incomplete Cape" will recognize this familiar scene view of Camps Bay and the Twelve Apostles, taken from the Glen. Two aspects, however, combining ancient and modern features, are depicted here. In the foreground is the old and famous Round House tearoom, built originally as a shooting box for Lord Charles Somerset. On the left is the ancient Round House Annexe - the feature of which as a Youth Hostel has been the subject of recent municipal discussion. The modern aspect lies in the middle distance where part of the amazing development of Camps Bay can be seen.
Identifier: islandora:16948

Title: Adderley Street, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Urban development, Architecture, City planning, Horse-drawn vehicles
Description: A view of Adderley Street and the General Post Office.
Identifier: islandora:17384

Title: Greenmarket Square, Cape Town, 1962
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Architecture, Urban development, City planning, Religion
Description: Greenmarket Square in 1962 showing the Old Town House (built in 1755) and the Victorian Gothic Methodist Church (built in 1871).
Identifier: islandora:17023

Title: Aerial view, District Six, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Urban development, Apartheid
Description: Aerial view of central Cape Town after the demolition of District Six (foreground), showing the Castle, railways and freeways into Cape Town, and Woodstock.
Identifier: islandora:17024

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