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Title: Tramway, Camps Bay , Cape Town
Subject: Camps Bay (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Infrastructure, Tramways, Recreation, Transport, History,
Description: Mountain Tramway, Camps Bay.
Identifier: islandora:16958

Title: Union celebrations in St George's Street, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), date unknown, Festivals, History, Colonialism
Description: Union celebrations in St George's Street, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:14530

Title: Native compound, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), History, Stevedores, Cape Town Harbour (South Africa)
Description: Native compound in Cape Town docks (ex-Breakwater Jail).
Identifier: islandora:17974

Title: Yacht basin, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Aerial views, History, Cape Town Harbour (South Africa)
Description: Yacht basin (centre), Culemborg and Foreshore.
Identifier: islandora:17963

Title: Bellville Fire Department,Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Fires departments, History, Civil services, Transport
Description: Bellville firemen lined up today to say farewell to the town council's 30-year-old fire-engine (left), which has been given to the Cape Town Crankhandle Club. On the right is the new R19,000 fire-engine.
Identifier: islandora:16792

Title: Mail ship day, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town Harbour (South Africa), Ships, History
Description: Mail ship day: A heavy flow of passengers now brings full liners to the Cape every week. The Scot, fastest liner on the trade for 40 years, is seen here in 1897, disembarking passengers after a 15-day passage from Southampton.
Identifier: islandora:17955

Title: Dockland on Monday mornings, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town Harbour (South Africa), History
Description: On Monday mornings, Dockland is early astir. The berthing and unloading of the mail boat is always a scene of bustle and this is observable throughout this area of wharfs and shipping.
Identifier: islandora:17952

Title: Natal Arch, 1910, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), circa 1910, History, Monuments, Colonialism
Description: South African union, Cape Town, 1910, Natal Arch
Identifier: islandora:14909

Title: Cape Dutch homestead, Bergvliet Farm, Cape Town
Subject: Bergvliet (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Architecture, History, Housing, Cape Dutch architecture,
Description: Cape Dutch homestead in Bergvliet at Retreat
Identifier: islandora:16840

Title: Cape Dutch farmhouse, Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, History, Cape Dutch architecture, Architecture, Farms
Description: Cape Dutch farm building at Lowenstein, Bellville, Cape Town,
Identifier: islandora:16804

Title: Historic 12 Mile Post, Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), History, Transport, Roads, City planning, Older people
Description: Present links with the past. A busy modern main street to-day speeds past the location of the old 12th Mile Post, here pointed out by Mr. Frans Duminy and Mr. Pieter Dreyer, who still have vivid memories of the nineteenth-century Bellville.
Identifier: islandora:16784

Title: South African union, 1910, Adderley Street, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), circa 1910, Festivals, Colonialism, History
Description: South African union, 1910, Adderley St., Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:14911

Title: Koopmans de Wet House, Cape Town, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Antiques, Koopmans-De Wet House (Museum), Culture, Recreation, History
Description: Christine's Day-VI - "Even the rain cannot really spoil one's holiday in the Peninsula. I took a bus to the Koopmans de Wet House and spent an interesting time there. I saw so much -that lovely old four-poster bed, the silver-faced stinkwood wardrobe, the sedan chair and many other things..." [ This is the last of a series of photographs showing some of the episodes in the 14-day holiday of Miss Christine Steyn, a Cape Town stenographer, who decided to spend her vacation inexpensively at home and visit beauty spots and places of historical interest.]
Identifier: islandora:17001

Title: Royal procession, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), circa 1910, History, Festivals, Colonialism
Description: Opening the Union Parliament, Cape Town, 1910, royal procession.
Identifier: islandora:14542

Title: Old Premier cinema, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), History, Buildings, Suburbs
Description: The entrance of the old Premier cinema in Rondebosch, which closed in 1932. A clothing factory has operated here since that date.
Identifier: islandora:16606

Title: Table Bay Harbour, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town Harbour (South Africa), Ships, Cape Town Harbour, History
Description: Table Bay Harbour, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17957

Title: Erecting the new harbour wall, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town Harbour (South Africa), Development, History, Ships
Description: Seen from the top of the Pier tower one notices the tremendous progress which is made in filling in the old yachting harbour and in erecting the new harbour wall.
Identifier: islandora:17950

Title: Swimming pool, Camps Bay, Cape Town
Subject: Camps Bay (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Children, Recreation, Beaches, History
Description: Children's bathing pool, Camps Bay.
Identifier: islandora:16952

Title: Natal Arch, 1910, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), circa 1910, History, Monuments, Colonialism
Description: South African union, Cape Town, 1910, Natal Arch
Identifier: islandora:14541

Title: Flooding, Camps Bay Pavilion, Cape Town
Subject: Camps Bay (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Floods, Weather, Entertainment, History
Description: The Old Camps Bay Pavilion, that has stood the storms of many years, nearly threw in the towel early today as floodwaters from many mountain streams, swollen by last night's heavy rain, cascaded on to Victoria Road, marooning the building.
Identifier: islandora:16989

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