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Title: Searle street resident receives blessing, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Religion, Forced removals, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: Mrs Mabel Dias, 91, of Searle Street hopes that she will die before the bulldozers reach there. Here she receives a blessing from Father Basil Van Rensburg of Holy Cross parish.
Identifier: islandora:17984

Title: Ticket inspector helps commuters with timetable, Cape Town
Subject: Railroads, Infrastructure, Railroad trains, ,
Description: Railways ticket inspector Mr Cornelius Jackson was on hand at the Mitchell's Plain station early today to help commuters with a timetable. The new rail service came into effect today.
Identifier: islandora:15353

Title: Bulldozer destroys shacks at Modderdam Road, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Townships, Apartheid, Housing, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Forced removals (South Africa)
Description: Shacks at Modderdam Road squatter camp in Bellville South, home to Africans regarded as being in Cape Town illegally by apartheid authorities, was destroyed by two bulldozers during one week in August 1977
Identifier: islandora:16838

Title: Cranes, Cape Town Harbour, 1978
Subject: Table Mountain (Western Cape, South Africa), Harbours, Infrastructure, Building, Industry
Description: An everyday sight at the docks, perhaps, but it needed the keen eye of Argus photographer to recognise the artistic possibilities of strong geometric shapes set off against the muted backdrop of Table Mountain, and compose this picture.
Identifier: islandora:17136

Title: Children play outside, Cape Town
Subject: Youth, Squatter settlements, Poverty, Apartheid, ,
Description: Children play outside the black tents. Without passes their parents can not get permanent jobs so there is no money for Christmas presents or festive foods.
Identifier: islandora:15589

Title: OK Bazaar staff canteen, Cape Town
Subject: Employees, ,
Description: Mitchell's Plain - T/Centre / OK Bazzaar Mitchell's Plain staff canteen.
Identifier: islandora:15336

Title: Aerial view of Chrysler's Elsies River plant, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Elsies River (South Africa), Apartheid, Urban development
Description: Aerial view of Chrysler's Elsies River plant.
Identifier: islandora:18115

Title: Colony of Natal
Subject: Missions -- South Africa -- KwaZulu-Natal., Geology -- South Africa -- KwaZulu-Natal., KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: Vertical and horizontal scales given., Coloured map of the Colony of Natal showing geological formations and mission stations., Inset: "Section, along the main Road from the Drakenberg [sic] at Van Reenen Pass, to the Sea at Bluff Point, Port Natal.", Note on map: "Mission stations are shewn thus ... +. The figures in the section shew the heights above the Sea Level, in feet.", Colour-coded key to geological formations.
Identifier: islandora:19751

Title: Winnie Mandela mingles with celebrities, Cape Town
Subject: circa 1990, Mandela, Winnie, Gabriel, Peter, 1950-
Description: Winnie Mandela, wife of Nelson Mandela. Left: Peter Gabriel, singer and songwriter.
Identifier: islandora:14730

Title: Film crew
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, camera, film crew, bushveld, San, indigenous, cigarette, smoke, lion T-shirt, earphones, hut, thatch, Camera operators--Namibia, Sound engineers--Namibia, Otjozondjupa (Namibia)
Description: Cameraman Peter Baker (working for John Marshall) with the sound technician. Bushmanland, Namibia.
Identifier: islandora:11850

Title: Africae inTabula Geographica Delineatio
Subject: Africa
Description: Cartouche contains a fat-tail sheep, tail supported by a wheeled platform., Amsterdam. Schenk, Peter, 1660-1718 or 9
Identifier: islandora:25573

Title: Swan Lake
Subject: Ballet dancers, Ballet--Costume, Pas de deux, Swan lake (Choreographic work)
Description: Swan Lake. Peter Cazalet and Pamela Chrimes. Venue: City Hall, Darling Street, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:14107

Title: Swan Lake
Subject: Ballet dancers, Ballet--Costume, Pas de deux, Swan lake (Choreographic work)
Description: Swan Lake. Peter Cazalet and Pamela Chrimes. Venue: City Hall, Darling Street, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:13628

Title: Aethiopia inferior vel exterior Partes magis Septentrionales ...Aethiopia Superioris
Subject: Southern Africa
Description: Amsterdam. Valck, G. (Gerard), 1651 or 2-1726; Valk, Leonard, 1675-1755; Schenk, Peter, 1660-1718 or 9
Identifier: islandora:25535

Title: Swan Lake
Subject: Ballet dancers, Ballet--Costume, Pas de deux, Swan lake (Choreographic work)
Description: Swan Lake. Peter Cazalet and Pamela Chrimes. Venue: City Hall, Darling Street, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:13151

Title: Le pays des Hottentots aux environs du Cap de Bonne Esperance
Subject: Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: Map depicts the coast from St Helena Bay to Mossel Bay and the corresponding area inland., Relief shown pictorially., Text is in French and Dutch., "J. v. Schley direx.", "Lieues Marines de France et d'Angleterre de 20 au Degré." "Lieues d'Allemagne de 15 au Degré.", UCT Libraries hold 2 copies. One copy (566a) is hand coloured; one copy (566b) is uncoloured.
Identifier: islandora:19708

Title: Le pays des Hottentots aux environs du Cap de Bonne Esperance
Subject: Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: Map depicts the coast from St Helena Bay to Mossel Bay and the corresponding area inland., Relief shown pictorially., Text is in French and Dutch., "J. v. Schley direx.", "Lieues Marines de France et d'Angleterre de 20 au Degré." "Lieues d'Allemagne de 15 au Degré.", UCT Libraries hold 2 copies. One copy (566a) is hand coloured; one copy (566b) is uncoloured.
Identifier: islandora:19709

Title: The Mouille Point blue train, Cape Town
Subject: Railroads, Railroad trains - Maintenance and repair, ,
Description: Mr Johnny Peters, driver of the Mouille Point blue train, fondly touches the wheel of the engine as it is lifted off the tracks to undergo a well deserved overhaul.
Identifier: islandora:15375

Title: Clerk and interpreter talk to squatters about relocating, Cape Town
Subject: Authority, Forced removals (South Africa), Homeless persons, ,
Description: Transit talk: Milnerton town clerk Mr Peter Gerber uses an interpreter in discussions with squatters about their relocation to the temporary transit area next week.
Identifier: islandora:15298

Title: Postcard, possibly from former classmates in Düren (Germany) to Edith and Kurt Bruch, Amsterdam, 1934
Subject: Bruch, Edith--Correspondence, Bruch, Karl--Correspondence, Hindenburg, Paul von, 1847-1934--On postage stamps
Description: Postcard depicting St. Peter (Keys of Heaven) at the gates of Heaven, with some school children. There is text and a German President Paul von Hindenburg stamp on the back of the postcard.
Identifier: islandora:29860

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