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Title: Cape Colony reconnaissance series. Britstown
Subject: Britstown Region (South Africa) -- Maps., Northern Cape (South Africa) -- Maps., Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: Topographical map indicating Britstown and other towns and villages, roads, rivers, dunes and other features in the area surrounding Britstown., Relief shown by contours and spot heights., "Geographical Section. General Staff."--Cover., Projection not given., Map folds into an outer cover., Includes index to adjoining sheets., Includes a table listing halting places., Includes two ancillary maps: Britstown (scale 1 in. to 1 mile) and Sketch of De Aar (scale 1 in to 0.5 miles)., Sheet 128-R., Mounted on cloth. Slightly torn along folds.
Identifier: islandora:24878

Title: Cape of Good Hope
Subject: Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)--Maps, ,
Description: Map showing the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa, and international, intercolonial, provincial, district boundaries, with place names, railways, under construction, projected, roads suitable for motor traffic: all seasons, dry weather, roads suitable for carts, tracks, telegraphs or telephones, telegraphs or telephones along roads or tracks, provinces, frontier districts, localities, mountain ranges, peaks, valleys, capes, islands, tribes, towns of 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th importance, rivers, unsurveyed, canals, marshes and swamps, plains liable to inundation,, geodetic trigonometrical stations, altitudes in metres, depths in metres, wells, springs, waterholes, pools, historical ruins, wireless telegraph stations. Contours are at 200 & 500 metres & thence at 500 metre intervals. Relief shown by form lines with height in metres, tinted shading. Third edition, ground/air. Colour. Scale 1 : 2,000,000.
Identifier: islandora:19315

Title: Graham's Town and the outposts with their bearings and distances
Subject: Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Maps., Eastern Cape (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: South Eastern Cape districts showing Somerset [East], Uitenhage, Albany (Grahamstown, Salem, Bathurst, Post Retief), Victoria (Fort Beaufort, Fort Peddie), King William's Town, and the Great Fish River. Wyld's map features towns, forts and posts with distances between them as well as rivers and mountains.
Identifier: islandora:19526

Title: Übersicht der Trigonometrischen & Nautischen aufnehmen in Kaplande bis 1867--[cartographic material]
Subject: Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)--Maps., Nautical charts--South Africa--Cape of Good Hope.
Description: Trigonometrical and navigational map of the southern portion of the Cape of Good Hope showing the southern African coast from St Helena Bay, Saldanha Bay and False Bay in the south and west to Cape Morgan in the east and the Compassberg in the north., Relief shown by spot heights. Depths shown by contours and soundings., Projection not given. Bar scale in German miles., Inset: Südliches Ende der Agulhas Bank [the southern end of the Agulhas Bank]., Appears in Mittheilungen aus Justus Perthes' geographischer Anstalt über wichtige neue Erforschungen auf dem Gesammtgebiete der Geographie / von A. Petermann. Gotha : Justus Perthes, 1868.
Identifier: islandora:19590

Title: Cape Colony, 1896 : map showing lepers per 10,000 of population for last 10 years so far as can be ascertained, 8th February, 1896
Subject: Lepers--South Africa--Cape of Good Hope--Maps, Cape of Good Hope (Colony)--Administrative and political divisions--Maps, , ,
Description: Administrative map showing lepers per 10,000 of the population, with district and division boundaries, seats of magistracy and railway lines. Chiefly colour. Scale 7/8 inch to 50 miles.
Identifier: islandora:29814

Title: Separate Amenities in practice, Cape Town
Subject: Simon's Town (Cape of Good Hope, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Race discrimination, Segregation, Apartheid signage
Description: Mr Larrington Dyasi is mystified. The Simon's Town handyman has been bringing his family to the beach at Simon's Town for more than a year. Now suddenly signs have been put up banning him from the beach.
Identifier: islandora:16664

Title: Cape Colony reconnaissance series. Port Nolloth & O'Okiep
Subject: Port Nolloth Region (South Africa) -- Maps., Northern Cape (South Africa) -- Maps., Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: Topographical map indicating Port Nolloth & O'Okiep and other towns, villages, roads, railways, rivers, mountains, dunes and other features in the area of Port Nolloth & O'Okiep., Relief shown by contours and spot heights., "Geographical Section. General Staff."--Cover., Projection not given., Map folds into an outer cover., Includes index to adjoining sheets., Includes a table listng halting places., Includes two inset maps: Port Nolloth (scale 1 in. to 1 mile) and Sketch of O'Okiep (scale 1 in. to 0.5 miles), Sheets 127 K & L., Copy 919 mounted on cloth. Copy 948 printed on cloth.
Identifier: islandora:24923

Title: Cape Colony reconnaissance series. Orange River mouth
Subject: Orange River Estuary Region (Namibia and South Africa) -- Maps., Northern Cape (South Africa) -- Maps., Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: Topographical map indicating villages, roads, railways, rivers, mountains, dunes and other features in the area of the Orange River mouth., Relief shown by contours and spot heights., "Geographical Section. General Staff."--Cover., Projection not given., Map folds into an outer cover., Includes index to adjoining sheets., Includes a table listing halting places., Includes two inset sketches: Orange River at Sendling's Drift and Arris Drift., Sheet 127-E., Mounted on cloth.
Identifier: islandora:24940

Title: Map to accompany report on authorized extension of railway system
Subject: Railroads--South Africa--Cape of Good Hope--Maps, ,
Description: A map of northern and eastern parts of the Cape Colony showing an authorised and alternative railway extension from Cradock to Colesberg, joining the authorised and alternative extension from Beaufort West to Hope Town, with towns and other place names, district boundaries, mountains and rivers. Relief shown by hachures. Some colour. No scale given.
Identifier: islandora:25116

Title: Engraving of Cape
Subject: Africa - Cape of Good Hope
Identifier: islandora:25218

Title: Man walks past a "troops out!" sign spray-painted onto the Castle, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Castle of Good Hope (Cape Town, South Africa), Vandalism, Armed forces
Description: A pedestrian walks past the Castle, seemingly oblivious of the controversial slogan painted on its wall facing Strand Street during the night.
Identifier: islandora:16225

Title: Delineatio Promontorii, Quod Cabo de bona Esperanca vulgo vocatur
Subject: Africa - Cape of Good Hope
Description: The seas contain sea monsters, sailing ships, natives paddling a canoe and two compass roses. Part of folio map with Latin text on bottom. "The map also appears in Indiae Orientalis Pars, IX (Verhoefs voyage to the Moluccas, 1607-1609), by de Bry, published in Frankfurt in 1612, with a Latin edition 1607-1612." Top right: III. Bottom right: GK., Frankfurt. Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598
Identifier: islandora:25220

Title: Cape of Good Hope. Schuit Drift
Subject: Northern Cape (South Africa) -- Maps., Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: Topographical map indicating Schuit Drift and towns and villages, roads, railways, rivers and other features in the area of Schuit Drift, a ford on the Orange River., Relief shown by contours, form lines and spot heights., Projection not given., Map folds into an outer cover., Includes index to adjoining sheets., Includes a table listing halting places., Includes a general note commenting on: nature of country, roads, transport, water, fuel, grazing and supplies., Includes inset map: Schuit Drift (scale 1 in. to 0.5 miles)., Sheet South H-34/B., Copies 921 and 956 printed on cloth. Copy 957 mounted on cloth and slightly torn along fold.
Identifier: islandora:24936

Title: [Map showing existing and proposed rail routes from Cape Town and Malmesbury to Beaufort West]
Subject: Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Maps., Railroads -- Cape of Good Hope -- Maps.
Description: The map, showing the area of the Cape of Good Hope from Saldanna [Saldanha] Bay in the west to a point east of Knysna, illustrates railway lines and proposed railway routes from Cape Town and Malmesbury to Beaufort West., Relief shown by hachures., Upper left: "(147)". Lower right: "Saul Solomon & Co., steam lithographers, Cape Town.", Appears in Report of surveys in connection with the following proposed lines of railway: 4, To Beaufort West / Cape of Good Hope (Colony). Cape Town : Saul Solomon, 1874. A.5-'74.
Identifier: islandora:19589

Title: Geological map of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, sheet IV
Subject: Geology--South Africa--Maps, Geology, Stratigraphic--Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)--Maps, Basins (Geology)--South Africa--Maps,
Description: Geological map of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope showing superficial deposits, Ecca and Dwyka Series of the Karoo System, Wittenberg, Bokkeveld and Table Mountain Series of the Cape System, French Hoek beds, Malmesbury Series, dolerite and diabase, and qartz-porphyry granite, railwys, roads, rivers, and mountains. Coloured. Scale: 1 in. to 5 English miles. Projection not given.
Identifier: islandora:29958

Title: Carpobrotus acinaciformis (L.) L.Bolus
Subject: South Africa--Cape of Good Hope, Aizoaceae--South Africa--Western Cape--Pictorial works, Botany--South Africa--Western Cape--Pictorial works, Vygie
Description: Botanical illustration - coloured - Carpobrotus acinaciformis. Dissected drawing of flower included. Drawn from a collection made at Cape Point [Kaappunt, Cape District] by R.H. Compton, 13 September 1926. Flowers in September. Fruit drawn on the 29 November 1926.
Identifier: islandora:22953

Title: Eastern frontier of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, ( and part of Kafirland) from Algoa Bay to the Great Kei River
Subject: Eastern Cape (South Africa)--History--Maps, Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)--History--Maps, ,
Description: Partly coloured map of Eastern Frontier of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, from Algoa Bay to the Great Kei River showing districts, district boundaries in colour, 'Amatembu Kafirs or Tambookies' and 'Amakosa or Kafirs Proper', and rivers, with an insert map showing the Western Frontier. Some colours. Scale: 3.8 in. to 30 English miles. Projection not given.
Identifier: islandora:29937

Title: Map of Cape Colony shewing land reserved for natives
Subject: Blacks--Land tenure--South Africa--Maps, Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)--Administrative and political boundaries--Maps, , ,
Description: A map of the Cape Colony showing native reserves, locations, mission stations and districts, native reserves, locations and districts under the influence of the Glen Grey Act, with district boundaries, rivers, railways, towns and villages. Some colour. Scale 1 inch to 2 1/2 miles.
Identifier: islandora:25195

Title: Children, Cape Point, Cape Town
Subject: Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Children, Beaches, Apartheid, Sea
Description: On the rocks at Cape Point Nature Reserve, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:17010

Title: Nieuwe Caarte van Kaap de Goede Hoop en't Zuyderdeel van Africa
Subject: Africa - Cape of Good Hope
Description: Inset: De Hollandsche vesting aan het voorgebergte de Goede Hoop and Tafel-Bay aan het voorgebergte de Goede Hoop; Top right: Pag. 48., Amsterdam. Ottens, R. (Reinier),1698-1750; Ottens, J. (Josua), 1704-1765
Identifier: islandora:25292

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