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Title: Cape Town water supply : Table Mountain survey : general plan. Drawing No. 1 accompanying Hydraulic Engineer's report for 1881
Subject: Water-supply--South Africa--Cape Town--Maps,
Description: Map showing proposed water sources, reservoirs and intake points on Table Mountain and pipe tracks around the mountain for schemes 1 and 2, to serve the suburbs from Newlands to Woodstock and Cape Town itself, with another track to Sea Point.The map shows Table Mountain, Devil's Peak, the Twelve Apostles, Signal Hill and Lion's Head, the Liesbeeck River and Newlands Spring, Hout's Bay Stream, Disa Stream, Blinkwater Stream and Kasteel Stream, Breda's Field Reservoir and Sea Point Reservoir, Maclear's Beacon, a block house and foot paths. The map also shows a street grid for Cape Town with the railway station, the Castle, Jurgen's Field and Kloof Neck. Table Bay and Camp's Bay are shown with the coastline by Sea Point. Roads and railway lines are shown from Wynberg to Cape Town. The locations of the German Church and the Dutch Reformed Church in Wynberg are indicated. Some colour. Relief shown by hachures. Scale 1 inch to 100 Cape roods. 78/8 inch to 1000 feet.
Identifier: islandora:25186

Title: Cape Government Railways Transkeian surveys : Amabele Loop to Umtata : map showing approximately the route of a proposed line of railway to accompany report by A. M. Tippett, Engr in charge of survey, dated Aug. 2nd 1899
Subject: Railroads--South Africa--Eastern Cape--Maps,
Description: Map showing proposed line of railway from Amabele to Umtata in the Eastern Cape, with rivers, roads and some place names. Some colour. Scale 7/8 inch to 1 mile.
Identifier: islandora:25178

Title: Fourteen Streams, Vaal River : proposed irrigation works : plan : drawing no. 1 accompanying Hydraulic Engineer's report for 1882
Subject: Irrigation--South Africa--Northern Cape-Maps, Vaal River (South Africa)--Maps,
Description: Map showing canals and tunnels of the proposed irrigation works for the land bordered by the Vaal and Harts Rivers and the Transvaal Republic on its border, with farms and native locations. Places shown are Barkly, Hebron and Warrenton. Some colour. Scale 1 inch to 600 Cape roods.
Identifier: islandora:25077

Title: Table Bay : reclamation of Foreshore. Plan No. 1, to accompany report by Cathcart W. Methven
Subject: Harbors--South Africa--Cape Town--Maps, Table Bay (South Africa)--Maps,
Description: A hydrographic map of Table Bay Foreshore showing various survey lines and fathom contours from 1846 to 1902. Places on the map are Fort Knokke, Craig's Battery and the Salt River mouth. Colour. Scale 1 inch to 800 feet.
Identifier: islandora:25126

Title: Table Bay : reclamation of Foreshore. Plan No. 1, to accompany report by Cathcart W. Methven
Subject: Harbors--South Africa--Cape Town--Maps, Table Bay (South Africa)--Maps,
Description: A hydrographic map of Table Bay Foreshore showing various survey lines and fathom contours from 1846 to 1902. Places on the map are Fort Knokke, Craig's Battery and the Salt River mouth. Colour. Scale 1 inch to 800 feet.
Identifier: islandora:29787

Title: Map of portion of the Malmesbury, Piquetberg and Clanwilliam Districts, to accompany Mr. Hector Shaw's report
Subject: Railroads--South Africa--Malmesbury--Maps, Railroads--South Africa--Piketberg--Maps, Railroads--South Africa--Clanwilliam--Maps, , ,
Description: A map showing proposed railway lines from Malmesbury through Piquetberg to Clanwilliam, with roads, rivers, place names and relief shown by shading. Some colour. Scale 3/8 inch to 1 mile.
Identifier: islandora:25062

Title: Plan of Table Bay shewing positions of vessels in the Bay during the gales of July 1878, with direction of wind, and swell (to accompany A. C. Jenour's evidence.)
Subject: Shipwrecks--South Africa--Table Bay--Maps,
Description: A map of Table Bay showing the position of eleven ships before and after the gale, including the position of the five ships that were wrecked, with the changing direction of the wind as observed at the Royal Observatory and thechanging direction of the sea observed at the Harbour Works. The shoreline shows Somerset Hospital, a laboratory, the convict station, the breakwater, the outer basin and Alfred Basin, Amsterdam Battery and magazine, Somerset Road, the Castel, the Military Hospital, Fort Knockke, the Craig Tower and Battery and the Salt River. Some colour. Relief shown by hachures. Scale 1 inch to 1000 feet.
Identifier: islandora:25104

Title: Map of the Gold Coast to accompany Dr Madden's report
Subject: Slave trade -- Ghana -- Maps., Gold Coast -- Maps.
Description: Map of the Gold Coast and hinterland, with the names of British settlements underlined in red and slave trading locations underlined in green., The map was produced to accompany Dr Richard Robert Madden’s anti-slavery report published in: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. (551) Select Committee on the West Coast of Africa, 5 August 1842.
Identifier: islandora:19564

Title: Table Bay : reclamation of Foreshore. Plan No. 2, to accompany report by Cathcart W. Methven
Subject: Harbors--South Africa--Cape Town--Maps, Table Bay (South Africa)--Maps,
Description: A hydrographic map of Table Bay Foreshore showing 1858-60 survey lines and 1902 fathom contours, with boundaries of the properties of the Imperial War Department, the Cape Government Railways, the Harbour Board, the Municipality of Cape Town and private owners, Woodstock Municipal freehold land and land to be expropriated by the Railway Department. The map also shows the Victoria Basin, the Amsterdam Battery, the railway station and railway line, the Castle, the Market, the military hospital, Fort Knokke, the Salt River workshops and the Salt River mouth and a few streets. Colour. Scale 1 inch to 800 feet.
Identifier: islandora:25127

Title: Proposed Indwe-Natal border railway, accompanying the late P. Fletcher's report dated 12th June 1896
Subject: Railroads--South Africa--Eastern Cape--Maps, Railroads--South Africa--KwaZulu-Natal--Maps, Railroads--South Africa--Indwe--Maps, ,
Description: A map showing existing and proposed railways, the Indwe-Imvani line and the probable route from the Umzimkulu River to Richmond Road, in the eastern Cape colony and Natal, with rivers, roads and towns. Basutoland, Zululand, Transvaal and Orange Free State are also shown. Some colour. relief shown by hachures. No scale given.
Identifier: islandora:25181

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