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Title: Views of Cape Town and vicinity
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa) -- Pictorial works.
Description: Three sketches: View from the road to Stellenbosch; View from the waste behind Dr Lieschings villa; View of the mountains, on entering Table Bay., The views include numbered and labelled topographical features including Devil's Hill [Peak], Lion's Head, Lion's Rump, Cape Town, Table Bay, Table Mountain, "Van Kamp's Bay" (Camp's Bay) and the mountains in the Stellenbosch region., Printed sketches extracted from Christian Ignatius Latrobe, A journal of a visit to South Africa, in 1815, and 1816. With some account of the missionary settlements of the United Brethren, near the Cape of Good Hope (London : L.B. Seeley, 1818)., Restored and hinged between acid-free boards.
Identifier: islandora:19749

Title: Plan du fort et de la ville du Cap de Bonne Esperance :
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa) -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: Statement of scale: Echelle de trois cent toises; Schaal van 300 halve-roeden., Text in French and Dutch., Restored and hinged between acid-free boards., See also BMSC 6821.g.1 (573) for German version and BMSC 6821.g.1 (423) for French version., Indexed for points of interest including the Grand Parade, Church Square, Slave Lodge, Groote Kerk, VOC Hospital and other buildings, Fiscal’s house and Company Gardens.
Identifier: islandora:19930

Title: Plan en Caart van 't Vlek aan Caap de Goede Hoop
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa) -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: Photocopy., Text in Dutch., Original statement of scale: "Schaale van 100 Rhijnlandsche Roeden"., Plan of Cape Town in 1755 showing streets and erven. Features such as the Company's garden, Company's hospital, Groote Kerk and Slave Lodge are marked., Copy in H. W. J. Picard, Gentleman's Walk (Cape Town: Struik, 1968): facing page 38. A description of the plan is given on pages 37-38 and a partial key is printed opposite p. 38., See BA 968.21 PICA.
Identifier: islandora:19927

Title: Plan du fort et de la ville du Cap de Bonne Esperance :
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa) -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: Statement of scale: Echelle de trois cent toises; Schaal van 300 halve-roeden., Text in French and Dutch., Restored and hinged between acid-free boards., See also BMSC 6821.g.1 (573) for German version and BMSC 6821.g.1 (423) for French version., Indexed for points of interest including the Grand Parade, Church Square, Slave Lodge, Groote Kerk, VOC Hospital and other buildings, Fiscal’s house and Company Gardens.
Identifier: islandora:19928

Title: A new chart of the southern coast of Africa, from the Cape of Good Hope to Dalagoa [sic] Bay, including the Bank of Cape Agulhas, its soundings, currents, within and without &c.
Subject: Shipwrecks -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope -- History -- 18th century., Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Maps -- Early works to 1800., Cape Agulhas (South Africa) -- Maps -- Early works to 1800., Cape Town (South Africa) -- Pictorial works.
Description: Map shows detailed soundings and other hydrographic information along the Cape coast. Map includes an engraving of "A view of the Cape of Good Hope" showing elevations of Table Mountain ("The Table"), "Devils Burg", "the Sugar Loaf" and "Lyon's Rump". Also depicted are houses and other buildings on the slopes of the mountain and a small rowing boat heading for harbour., "Drawn chiefly from the Papers of Mr Gerard De Ruyter., Captain of the Port at the Cape of Good Hope; with the track of the Worcester, Capt. Hall in 1786.", Extract from note on map: "On Thursday the 17th of July 1755, about a quarter before one in the morning, the Doddington outward bound East Indiaman struck on a rock about 3 leagues from the Main of Africa ... Judging they were on the Madagascar shore, and the passage open, they bore away to the Northward. The time they were lost they saw the breakers and in less than a quarter of an hour went all to pieces ...", This copy of the map is defective and the sections north of 28 degrees 5 minutes and east of 32 degrees are missing. Only the final line of the cartouche is visible. Only the lower portions of the two inset maps ("A Plan of Saldhanha Bay geometrically surveyed in 1752", and, "A Plan of Dalagoa Bay called by the Portuguese Bahia de Lorenzo Marques, and by the French Baye du St. Espirit" remain., Restored and placed between acid-free boards., Robert Laurie and James Whittle.
Identifier: islandora:19655

Title: Grundriss von dem Fort und der Stad auf dem Vorgebirge gutten Hoffnung
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa) -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: Maass-Stab von dreyhundert Toisen [1cm = 65m]., Indexed for points of interest including the Grand Parade, Church Square, Slave Lodge, Groote Kerk, VOC Hospital and other buildings, Fiscal’s house and Company Gardens., Based on Bellin's plan of Cape Town published in volume 3 of his Le Petit Atlas Maritime (Paris: Ministre de la Guerre et de la Marine, 1764)., See also accession BMSC 6821.g.1 (423) for the French version and BMSC 6821.g.1 (625) for version in both French and Dutch.
Identifier: islandora:19750

Title: Room 608
Subject: Silver, Horace, 1928-2014. Works. Selections, Jazz, Concerts--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: The Fourth Jessica and Bernard Lyon Jazz Prize for SACM Student Ensembles, Chisholm Recital Room, South African College of Music, Cape Town, South Africa
Identifier: islandora:28886

Title: [Map of land allotted at the Cape of Good Hope giving the numbers of the plots and also the names of the owners]
Subject: Farm ownership -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope -- History., Cape Town (South Africa) -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: Shows Table Mountain and the surrounding mountains in relief as well as the demarcation, size and ownership of farms on the south eastern side of the mountains and along the Liesbeeck River., Text in Dutch., Poor quality photographic copy of reproduction in the Leupe Collection, Western Cape Provincial Archives and Record Services. See WCARS M1/16., For a rather more detailed version of this area, see BMS.6821.c.1 (405).
Identifier: islandora:19724

Title: To the right honourable Charles, Earl of Peterborow and Monmouth, etc this map of Africa according to ye newest and most exact obervations is most humbly dedicated
Subject: Africa -- Maps -- Early works to 1800., Cape Town (South Africa) -- Pictorial works.
Description: Shows portion of Brazil, the island of Trinidada [Trinidad], Cape Virde [Verde] Islands, and the islands of Matheo, Fernando Po, Princes, St Thome, Annaboa, Ascension and St Helena in the Atlantic Ocean. and what is named on the map as the Ethiopia Sea. To the north, the map includes the southernmost portion of Europe, part of Asia, Arabia and the Strait of Babelmandel. In the Indian Ocean, the Comoro Islands, Madagascar, the Mozambique Channel, Mauritius, St Brandon, Diego Rois, the Maldives and other islands are indicated as well as the paths of the trade winds to the East. Ceylon and the Coromandel coast and Malabar in India are also depicted., Relief shown pictorially., "Printed for H. Moll over against Devereux Court without Temple Bar, D. Midwinter at the 3 Crowns in St. Pauls Church yard and Tho. Bowles print and mapseller next to the Chapter house in St. Pauls Church yard, by Philip Overton Map and Printseller near St Dunstans Church Fleet Street.", Prime meridians: London and Ferro., Includes views of "Cape Coast Castle on ye gold coast of Guinea," "James Fort on the island of St Helena", a plan of the "Fort of Good Hope" and "A prospect of the Cape of Good Hope" showing the watering place, the slaughter house, the wall [sea wall], the Lodging House [possibly the old Slave Lodge], the Company's Garden, the hospital, the entertaining house and stall for cattle. Also indicated are Charles Mount or Crown Hill, Windy Hill, the Castle of Good Hope, the Fort of Good Hope, Table Mountain, Sugar Loaf, and James Mount or Lyons Rump.
Identifier: islandora:19759

Title: Map of Cape Town, 1791
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa) -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: Photocopy of plan of Cape Town from Gentleman's Walk. Cape Town : Struik, 1968; by H.W.J. Picard (see BA 968.21 PICA), page 89., A note on the map suggests that the original was a plan which claimed to be dated 1785. However the plan includes the only cartographic evidence that St. George's Street (originally Berg Street), was once called Venus Straat (between 1790-1791). Picard therefore dismisses the possibility of 1785 being correct. The original cartographer is not identified.
Identifier: islandora:19925

Title: Building homes
Subject: squatter camps, construction work, manual labour, manual workersSquatter settlements--South Africa--Cape Town, Manual work--South Africa, Blue collar workers--South Africa
Description: Gugulethu informal settlement residents build their own homes as part of a housing project.
Identifier: islandora:8413

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