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Title: Fire station, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Emergency management, Water, Fire departments
Description: Fire brigades, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:14981

Title: Demolition of the old railway station, Cape Town, 1968
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Demolition, Architecture, Urban development, City planning
Description: Down it comes: A workman, perched about 40 ft. above the ground, uses an oxy-acetylene torch to cut through one of the steel girders which supported the curved roof of the main hall of Cape Town's old railway station. A foreman on the site said yesterday that demolition of the building is expected to be completed by the end of this month.
Identifier: islandora:17401

Title: Railway station, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Railroads, Transport, Infrastructure, Architecture, Interior decoration
Description: Railway station, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16153

Title: Steam trains at Cape Town Station, circa 1900
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Trains, Historic buildings, Transport, Architecture
Description: Left: Wynberg Tower Cape 3rd Class, 1898. Right: Wynberg Tank Class 02, 1882.
Identifier: islandora:17414

Title: Furnace room in Dock Road power station, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), History, Demolition, Electricity
Description: The furnace room in the Dock Road power station. The long pipes on each side carry the coal to the furnaces which will not go out when the power is shut off, but will be kept going at a fraction of their usual heat to make it possible to start up again on Monday morning.
Identifier: islandora:18103

Title: Train station being built, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Railroads, Transport, Infrastructure, Landscapes
Description: New Railway station - Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16162

Title: Aerial view of the old station in Cape Town, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Railroads, Transport, Infrastructure, Historic sites
Description: Aerial view of the old station in Cape Town, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16159

Title: Near old Cape Town Station, pre-1960s
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Architecture, Demolition, Transport
Description: Area around the old Cape Town Station, prior to its demolition in the 1960s.
Identifier: islandora:17437

Title: Raymond Ackerman at a petrol station promoting Pick 'n Pay coupons, Cape Town
Subject: Ackerman, Raymond, 1931-, Pick 'n Pay (Firm), Directors of corporations--South Africa, Service stations--South Africa
Description: Raymond Ackerman
Identifier: islandora:14699

Title: A Camel Thorn tree in front of the Witdraai Police Station
Subject: San (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Khomani (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, San (African people)--Social life and customs, Khomani (African people)--Social life and customs, Acacia erioloba---Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Trees--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: In 1937, |Una Rooi and her grandparents were forced to move to Upington, South Africa. They learnt that their homes were burnt and all their possessions and land taken. They were forced to live in the limestone grottoes at Witdraai in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. When |Una's father, Ari, reported this to the police at the Witdraai Police Station, he was violently beaten and left for dead.
Identifier: islandora:27081

Title: Culemborg goods station, Cape Town, 1953
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Transport, Infrastructure, Urban development, Commerce
Description: The new goods station of Culemborg, on the Foreshore, is handling all freight railed from Cape Town to Johannesburg. This picture was taken today.
Identifier: islandora:17406

Title: Jonkershoek Forestry Station
Subject: Plants--Stellenbosch (South Africa), Mountain plants--Stellenbosch (South Africa), Mountains--Stellenbosch (South Africa), ,
Description: District: Stellenbosch, Location: Jonkershoek Nature Reserve., Ecology: Unknown.
Identifier: islandora:3791

Title: Demolition of the old Cape Town Station, Cape Town, 1969
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Architecture, City planning, Transport
Description: Demolition of the old Cape Town Station, 1969.
Identifier: islandora:17442

Title: Salt River power station, Cape Town
Subject: Salt River (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), History, Demolition, Electricity
Description: Salt River power station.
Identifier: islandora:18102

Title: Rondebosch station, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), circa 1896, Transport, Trains, History, Buildings
Description: Rondebosch station has, unfortunately, been altered out of all recognition. This photograph shows it in the 1880s, and it is only the view of Table Mountain in the background that identifies it beyond doubt.
Identifier: islandora:16622

Title: Cape Town and Table Bay from upper Cableway station, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), City planning, Urban development, Environment, Architecture
Description: Cape Town from upper Cableway station
Identifier: islandora:17052

Title: Cape Town Railway Station, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Railroads, Transport, Infrastructure
Description: The new non-White station opened for the first time at noon yesterday. Hundreds of people milled about confused during the afternoon peak period as, for the first time in 103 years, complete segregation came to Cape Town station.
Identifier: islandora:16163

Title: Moordkuil weather station site
Subject: Plants--South Africa, Mountain plants--South Africa, Mountains--South Africa, ,
Description: District: Unknown, Location: Moordkuil., Ecology: Unknown.
Identifier: islandora:2685

Title: Demolition of the old Cape Town Station, Cape Town, 1968
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Urban development, Railways, Demolition, Architecture
Description: Soon the walls will come down, too - and a new phoenix rise out of the ashes of the old station.
Identifier: islandora:17410

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