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Title: Woman hanging washing, District Six, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--Social conditions, District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--History, Cape Town (South Africa)--History, ,
Description: A woman hangs up her washing in the backyard of her home in District Six, Cape Town in the 1970's prior to the state orchestrated forced removals to locations further from the city.
Identifier: islandora:18503

Title: Woman holding tea in a kitchen, District Six, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--Social conditions, District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--History, Cape Town (South Africa)--History, ,
Description: A woman holds a cup of tea and poses for a picture in the kitchen of a home in District Six, Cape Town in the 1970's prior to the state orchestrated forced removals to locations further from the city.
Identifier: islandora:18518

Title: Group of young children eating ice-cream on the stairs, District Six, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--Social conditions, District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--History, Cape Town (South Africa)--History, ,
Description: A group of young boys and girls sit and eat ice-cream on the steps leading up to adjacent homes in District Six, Cape Town in the 1970's prior to the state orchestrated forced removals to locations further from the city. Their mothers appear in the background holding babies.
Identifier: islandora:18514

Title: Insurance plan of Cape Town, Cape Colony, South Africa
Subject: Insurance--South Africa--Cape Town--Maps., Fire risk assessment--South Africa--Cape Town--Maps., Cape Town (South Africa)--Maps., Cape Town (South Africa)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Maps.
Description: The plans record street names, widths and numbers; fire-protection facilities (including the location of salt and fresh water hydrants); materials, shape, height, placement and use of buildings; the location of openings, types of stored materials and areas of high-risk activites on industrial sites., Sheet 1 comprises the key plan indicating 9 areas of central Cape Town surveyed by Goad (scale 1:6,000. 1 in. to 500 feet). This key plan includes notes on the water supply (salt and fresh) in central Cape Town, details of personnel and equipment of the Cape Town Fire Brigade and general comments on the city's climate and buildings. Also included is a sheet comprising an index of streets, buildings and firms. The buildings are colour coded by material type., Title from key plan on sheet 1., The 11 sheets (1 index and 10 maps) are in a hardcover volume, each sheet forming 2 leaves., This volume is one of 18 Cape Town fire-insurance atlases surveyed and drawn by Charles Edward Goad and printed in 1895. The bookplate pasted on the inside of the front cover indicates this copy was intended for the Union Assurance Society.
Identifier: islandora:19824

Title: Insurance plan of Cape Town, Cape Colony, South Africa
Subject: Insurance -- South Africa -- Cape Town -- Maps., Fire risk assessment -- South Africa -- Cape Town -- Maps., Cape Town (South Africa) -- Maps., Cape Town (South Africa) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Maps.
Description: The plans record street names, widths and numbers; fire-protection facilities (including the location of salt and fresh water hydrants); materials, shape, height, placement and use of buildings; the location of openings, types of stored materials and areas of high-risk activites on industrial sites., Sheet 1 comprises the key plan indicating 9 areas of central Cape Town surveyed by Goad (scale 1:6,000. 1 in. to 500 feet). This key plan includes notes on the water supply (salt and fresh) in central Cape Town, details of personnel and equipment of the Cape Town Fire Brigade and general comments on the city's climate and buildings. Also included is a sheet comprising an index of streets, buildings and firms. The buildings are colour coded by material type., Title from key plan on sheet 1., The 11 sheets (1 index and 10 maps) are in a hardcover volume, each sheet forming 2 leaves., This volume is one of 18 Cape Town fire-insurance atlases surveyed and drawn by Charles Edward Goad and printed in 1895. The bookplate pasted on the inside of the front cover indicates this copy was intended for the Union Assurance Society.
Identifier: islandora:19891

Title: The remains of demolished buildings, District Six, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--Social conditions, District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--History, Cape Town (South Africa)--History, ,
Description: Lion's head overlooks the demolition of buildings in District Six, Cape Town in the 1970's during the state orchestrated forced removals to locations further from the city.
Identifier: islandora:18547

Title: Boys playing with cards on the pavement, District Six, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--Social conditions, District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--History, Cape Town (South Africa)--History, ,
Description: Three boys sit on the pavement and play a game of cards outside a home in District Six, Cape Town in the 1970's prior to the state orchestrated forced removals to locations further from the city.
Identifier: islandora:18520

Title: Woman standing in a doorway, District Six, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--Social conditions, District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--History, Cape Town (South Africa)--History, ,
Description: A woman stands in the doorway of her home in District Six, Cape Town in the 1970's prior to the state orchestrated forced removals to locations further from the city.
Identifier: islandora:18527

Title: Young girl playing with stones, District Six, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--Social conditions, District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--History, Cape Town (South Africa)--History, ,
Description: A young girl plays with stones on the ground outside her home in District Six, Cape Town in the 1970's prior to the state orchestrated forced removals to locations further from the city.
Identifier: islandora:18519

Title: Functions, forms and challenges facing theatre in a changing South Africa : CAP theatre seminar
Subject: Community Arts Project (Cape Town, South Africa), Theater--South Africa
Description: Notice and programme for a theatre seminar convened by the Community Arts Project (CAP). The seminar was held on Saturday 29 September 1990.
Identifier: islandora:19029

Title: Father and child on the beach, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: South Africa--Social life and customs, Men--South Africa, Women--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Cities and towns--Cape Town,
Description: A father plays with his young child on a beach in Cape Town, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:18660

Title: Woman in the window of her home, District Six, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--Social conditions, District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--History, Cape Town (South Africa)--History, ,
Description: A woman looks through a window in her home in District Six, Cape Town in the 1970's prior to the state orchestrated forced removals to locations further from the city.
Identifier: islandora:18509

Title: Burning barricades, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: Political violence--South Africa--Cape Town, Demonstrations--South Africa--Cape Town, Apartheid--South Africa--Cape Town, Segregation----South Africa--Cape Town, Political history--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: Burning barricades in the streets of Athlone during protests and riots against apartheid, October 1985, Cape Town, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:5342

Title: South Africa
Subject: South Africa -- Maps., Durban (South Africa) -- Maps., Port Elizabeth (South Africa) -- Maps., Cape Town (South Africa) -- Maps., Africa -- Maps.
Description: Rev. to date., Title on map cover: Bacon's new large-scale map of South Africa : revised to date, with guide and complete index. Shows all main political and certain regional boundaries south of 16 degrees latitude; main towns and ports, railways, roads, tracks, etc. Inset maps of Durban and Port Natal, Port Elizabeth, Cape Town and Africa in relation to Europe and the Middle East., Note on map: "Where the name of the Chief Town is identical with that of the Fiscal District, the name of the latter is omitted"., Accompanied by booklet: Handbook to the map of South Africa, with descriptions and alphabetical index., Restored and hinged between acid-free boards., Bacon's Geographical Establishment., G.W. Bacon & Co., Handbook to the map of South Africa, with descriptions and alphabetical index.
Identifier: islandora:19820

Title: Elderly woman knitting, District Six, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--Social conditions, District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--History, Cape Town (South Africa)--History, ,
Description: An elderly woman sits and knits at a table in her home in District Six, Cape Town in the 1970's prior to the state orchestrated forced removals to locations further from the city.
Identifier: islandora:18517

Title: View of a church through an alleyway, District Six, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--Social conditions, District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--History, Cape Town (South Africa)--History, ,
Description: A view of the mountain and a church is seen through an alleyway between two apartment buildings in District Six, Cape Town in the 1970's prior to the state orchestrated forced removals to locations further from the city.
Identifier: islandora:18546

Title: District Six neighbourhood, set against the mountain backdrop, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--Social conditions, District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--History, Cape Town (South Africa)--History, ,
Description: Two children play in an open area in front of the neighbourhood of District Six, set against the mountain in Cape Town in the 1970's prior to the state orchestrated forced removals to locations further from the city.
Identifier: islandora:18543

Title: Media being arrested by apartheid police, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: Press--South Africa--Cape Town, Demonstrations--South Africa--Cape Town, Political history--South Africa--Cape Town, Apartheid--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: Cameraman Craig Matthews and his soundman, who were filming anti-apartheid protests in Cape Town, are arrested by police with orders to prevent media coverage of the unrest, October 1985, Cape Town, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:5340

Title: Residents at leisure, District Six, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--Social conditions, District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--History, Cape Town (South Africa)--History, ,
Description: A man plays the guitar while children and adults listen at leisure and smile at the camera in District Six, Cape Town in the 1970's prior to the state orchestrated forced removals to locations further from the city.
Identifier: islandora:18535

Title: Members of South Africa's 8th Antarctic expedition , Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Exploration and discovery, South African National Antarctic Expedition, Discovery II (Ship), Research, Polar regions
Description: Some of the men who sailed with South Africa's eighth Antarctic expedition in 1966 were photographed in Cape Town docks with their wives and sweethearts. In the front, with dark glasses, is the team leader, Mr Eddie Rossow. Next to him is his son Jaco.
Identifier: islandora:16672

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