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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: Church Street, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Urban development, Historic buildings, Roads
Description: Looking up Church Street, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17507

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: Two punk-rock performers pose for the camera, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Rock music, Cosmetics
Description: Shoppers stopped and stared in disbelief yesterday when these two "punk-rock" performers popped into an Adderley Street button shop to stock up on safety pins. The one on the left is male and called Guillaume, while the other is Andrea Fine. Both are appearing in the "cartoon rock opera", Zombie, now playing at a Cape Town theatre.
Identifier: islandora:16122

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: Amarilli di Julio Romano, from the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book - 1603
Subject: Philips, Peter, 1561-1628. Amarilli, Songs (High voice), Concerts--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: Exaltation & Damnation performed by members of the Cape Consort, Baxter Concert Hall, Cape Town, South Africa
Identifier: islandora:28930

Title: Docks pre-1950, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town Harbour (South Africa), Ships, History
Description: Cape Town docks, pre-1950.
Identifier: islandora:17961

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: Correspondence about archaeological context and dating of Border Cave
Subject: Middle Stone Age SA, Border Cave
Description: Andy Sillen, Peter Beaumont, AG Morris 6 Sept 1988 - 15 May 1995
Identifier: islandora:32663

Title: Correspondence about archaeological context and dating of Border Cave
Subject: Middle Stone Age SA, Border Cave
Description: Andy Sillen, Peter Beaumont, AG Morris 6 Sept 1988 - 15 May 1995
Identifier: islandora:33113

Title: Correspondence about archaeological context and dating of Border Cave
Subject: Middle Stone Age SA, Border Cave
Description: Andy Sillen, Peter Beaumont, AG Morris 6 Sept 1988 - 15 May 1995
Identifier: islandora:33705

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: Aerial view, Observatory, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Observatory (Cape Town, South Africa), Cemeteries, Aerial views, Buildings, Infrastructure, Urban areas
Description: St Peter's Cemetery, Observatory, is on the left of the picture, between Main Road and Groote Schuur Hospital.
Identifier: islandora:15126

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