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Title: Lancashire flatbed printing press , Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), circa 1899, Press, Southern African Newspapers, Printing presses
Description: Cape Times - Lancashire flatbed newspaper printing press, Reel fed. The first printing press the Cape Times had printing from flat type format; with reel. Before the Boer War.
Identifier: islandora:16049

Title: The Times map of British South Africa, the Transvaal and Orange Free State
Subject: South African War, 1899-1902 -- Maps., South Africa -- Maps., Africa, Southern -- Maps.
Description: Map of South Africa during the South African War (1899-1902), showing British South Africa, the South African Republic, the Orange Free State, Portuguese and German territory, cities and towns, roads, railways in use, railways under construction, proclaimed goldfields, telegraph lines, mountains and mountain passes, mission stations, rivers, principal steamship routes with distances plus a table of railway distances and a table of heights above sea level in feet., Relief shown by hachures and spot heights., Map folds into an outer cover., Insets: Map of the Natal frontier from Ladysmith to Charlestown. Scale [ca. 1:160 934] -- Witwatersrand. Scale [ca. 1:482 803] -- Kimberley district. Scale [ca. 1: 804 672] -- Mafeking district. Scale [ca. 1:804 672] -- Wales. Scale 1:2 500 000.
Identifier: islandora:19520

Title: Women work at microfilming old newspapers, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), circa 1950-5, Press, Southern African Newspapers
Description: Microfilming of old volumes of the Cape Times.
Identifier: islandora:16048

Title: Prickly pear cultivation
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, plant, labour, man, indigenous, cactus, plants, work, agriculture, gardening, Prickly pears--Botswana, San (African group)--Agriculture--Botswana, Ghanzi District (Botswana)
Description: The farming of prickly pears grown for cochineal. Two men (one seen only partially) working with young prickly pear plants. D'Kar, Botswana.
Identifier: islandora:11809

Title: New printing press for the Cape Times, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Press, Southern African Newspapers, Printing presses
Description: The new R300,000 printing press which is to be installed in the Cape Times building in Burg Street. It is expected that it will be in operation before the end of the year. The new press is capable of producing a 32 page newspaper, four pages of which will take three superimposed colours, and four other pages which will take one superimposed colour. This picture was taken at Hoe & Crabtree's works in London where the press was assembled and test run prior to shipment.
Identifier: islandora:16047

Title: The Cape Times building, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Press, Southern African Newspapers, Architecture
Description: The Cape Times building, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16045

Title: Prickly pear plants
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, plant, farming, man, indigenous, cactus, plants, work, agriculture, gardening, tool, Prickly pears, San (African group)--Agriculture--Botswana, Ghanzi District (Botswana)
Description: The farming of prickly pears grown for cochineal. A man holding two seedling trays stands amongst young prickly pear plants. D'Kar, Botswana.
Identifier: islandora:11811

Title: Men monitor the newspaper printing press, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), circa 1965, Press, Southern African Newspapers, Printing presses
Description: Cape Times - new printing press.
Identifier: islandora:16046

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