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Title: A New Map of Libya or old Africk Showing its general Divisions, most remarkable Countries or People, Cities, Townes, Rivers, Mountains & c
Subject: Africa
Description: Southern part of Africa has been left blank, stating, "Unknown to the Antients." Dedicated to William Duke of Gloucester., London. Wells, Edward, 1667-1727
Identifier: islandora:25330

Title: North east part of Griqualand West. Plan E, Annexure to Report of Surveyor General dated 21 March 1881
Subject: Farms--South Africa--Griqualand West--Maps, Griqualand West (South Africa)--Maps, ,
Description: A map of the north-east part of Griqualand West showing farms held on title, provisional title and lease, crown land, commonage, native locations, farms surveyed and reported and farms surveyed but not yet reported. Relief shown by hachures. Place names: Kuruman and Taouns. Some colour. Scale 2 1/2 inches to 10 miles. Scale about 1/2 inch to 1000 Cape roods. [Coordinates estimated]
Identifier: islandora:25064

Title: Groot Constantia: general restoration
Subject: South Africa ; Western Cape, Province of the ; Cape Town, Wine estates, Groot Constantia (Cape Town, South Africa), Historic farms--South Africa--Cape Town--Design and plans, Historic farms--Conservation and restoration--South Africa--Cape Town, Wineries--South Africa--Cape Town--Design and plans, Landscape architecture--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: Working Drawing: following on from the previous sheet, this hand-drawn, landscape sketch plan drawing, using pen and ink on tracing paper, is part of a series of four sequential drawings showing the extent of hard and soft landscape intervention and restoration work to the historic avenue and farm werf of the Groot Contantia Estate, Groot Constantia Road, Cape Town, South Africa. This particular drawing shows the visitors entrance and orientation centre and Jonkershuis Restaurant complex. The drawing continues onto the next sheet., Scale 1:200 on A1 size. Drawing Number 301/WD/02. (series of four sequential drawings, including Dwg. No. 301/WD/03, 301/WD/02, 301/WD/01.)
Identifier: islandora:22450

Title: Talk by Mrs M. Roberts at lunch hour meeting on 19th April 1963 on General Laws Amendment Bill
Description: Talk on the General Laws Amendment Bill
Identifier: islandora:6752

Title: First-time voter takes directions at the first general elections held in Angola
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Angola--Politics and government--1975-, Elections--Angola, Angola--Assembléia Nacional--Elections, 1992,
Description: First-time voter takes directions at the first general elections held on 29 and 30 September 1992, to elect a President and National Assembly. This was the first attempt at holding multi-party elections ending 17 years of civil war. The ruling Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (MPLA) won, leading União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (UNITA) to reject the election and resume the civil war.
Identifier: islandora:7044

Title: General correspondence
Subject: Drennan, M. R. (Matthew Robertson), 1885-1965--Correspondence., Rindl, M.--Correspondence
Description: Two handwritten letters between M. Rindl and Matthew Drennan about a publication.
Identifier: islandora:20947

Title: General plan of the European Reserve in the District of Port St. Johns, Pondoland. Sheet no. 2
Subject: Pondoland (South Africa)--History--Maps, Land use--South Africa--Pondoland, Pondoland (South Africa)--Description and travel--Maps,
Description: Plan of the European Reserve in the District of Port St. Johns, Pondoland, showing farmlands, names of places, forests, rivers, mountains, and main roads. Relief shown by shading. Some colours. Scale 100 Cape Roods to the inch.
Identifier: islandora:30101

Title: General correspondence
Subject: San (African people), Drennan, M. R. (Matthew Robertson), 1885-1965--Correspondence., Bleek, D. F. (Dorothea Frances), 1873-1948--Correspondence
Description: Typed letter from Dorothea Bleek to Matthew Drennan with comments on the San people of the Northern Cape, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:20948

Title: Groot Constantia: general restoration
Subject: South Africa ; Western Cape, Province of the ; Cape Town, Wine estates, Groot Constantia (Cape Town, South Africa), Historic farms--South Africa--Cape Town--Design and plans, Historic farms--Conservation and restoration--South Africa--Cape Town, Wineries--South Africa--Cape Town--Design and plans, Landscape architecture--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: Formal Garden - Planting Plan: this hand-drawn, technical working drawing, using pen and ink on tracing paper, shows the detailed planting plan of a proposed formal parterre garden, aligned on the side steps leading from the kitchen of the manor house of the historic Groot Contantia Wine Estate, Groot Constantia Road, Cape Town, South Africa. The drawing gives the plant species lists, planting out ratios and plant quantities., Scale 1:50 on A1 size. Drawing number 301/PP/05.
Identifier: islandora:22447

Title: General correspondence
Subject: Hesselson, Jack, Drennan, M. R. (Matthew Robertson), 1885-1965--Correspondence., Keith, Arthur, Sir, 1866-1955--Correspondence
Description: Typed letter of recommendation from Matthew Drennan for Jack Hesselson to Sir Arthur Keith, then Director of the Buckston Brown Research Farm in Kent, England. Included is a typed letter from Drennan to Hesselson.
Identifier: islandora:20967

Title: A General Map of the River Sanaga or Senegal from the Falls of Govina to the Ocean, Taken from a French Engineer in 1718
Subject: Africa - Senegal River
Description: Orientation: East at top on 2 insets; Insets: Entrance of Sanaga or Senegal, Island of Sanaga ... St. Louis, Fort St. Joseph plan & area., Labat
Identifier: islandora:25501

Title: [Voter education prior to the 1994 General Election]
Description: Voter education prior to the 1994 General Election. Val Goldschmidt talking to group of women
Identifier: islandora:6603

Title: Governor-General and wife at the opening of parliament, Cape Town
Subject: South Africa. Parliament, Governments, Armed forces, ,
Description: This was the big moment in the opening of Parliament ceremony today. As the Governor-General (Dr. E.G. Jansen) and Mrs Jansen arrive at the entrance gate the guard of honour presents arms, the 21-gun salute roars out across the city and the band strikes up "Die Stem". Dr. Jansen's aide de camp, Captain P. Roos, is at Mrs Jansen's side.
Identifier: islandora:15736

Title: General correspondence
Subject: San (African people), Drennan, M. R. (Matthew Robertson), 1885-1965--Correspondence., Laing, James D.--Correspondence
Description: Transcription of handwritten letter from James D. Laing to Matthew Drennan re the growth of Bushman children.
Identifier: islandora:20975

Title: General Johann Coetzee leaves the Supreme Court, Cape Town
Subject: Coetzee, P. J., South African Police--Officers, Legal system, Apartheid era
Description: General at Court: General Johann Coetzee at the Supreme Court yesterday
Identifier: islandora:14850

Title: Government subsidy housing a little more generous in rural Barrydale 1998
Description: Houses built by Government subsidy in Barrydale, 1998
Identifier: islandora:6632

Title: Map to accompany General Manager's report for the year 1895
Subject: Railroads--South Africa--Maps,
Description: Map showing railways in the Cape Colony through to British Bechuanaland, through the Orange Free State into the South African Republic. Shows territorial boundaries and place names. Some colour. Scale 1 inch to 60 miles.
Identifier: islandora:25146

Title: General correspondence
Subject: Dart, Raymond A. (Raymond Arthur), 1893-1988, Drennan, M. R. (Matthew Robertson), 1885-1965--Correspondence., Wells, L. H., 1908-1980.
Description: Typed letter from L. H. Wells from the University of the Witwatersrand to Matthew Drennan commenting on Raymond Dart's absence from the University.
Identifier: islandora:20979

Title: General index
Subject: African languages, Linguistics
Description: A general index
Identifier: islandora:7719

Title: General correspondence
Subject: Drennan, M. R. (Matthew Robertson), 1885-1965--Correspondence., Haughton, S. H. (Sidney Henry), 1888-1982--Correspondence
Description: Handwritten letter and transcript from Sidney Haughton to Matthew Drennan on the cranial contours of Boskop
Identifier: islandora:20949

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