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Title: Vineyard Hotel, Newlands, Cape Town
Subject: Water gardens, Vineyard Hotel (Cape Town, South Africa), Hotels--Landscape architecture--South Africa--Cape Town--Designs and plans,
Description: Vineyard Hotel, Newlands, Cape Town. Proposed water garden for bedroom suites on the south east side of the hotel. Dimension plan., Original, hand-drawn, ink on tracing paper.
Identifier: islandora:27943

Title: Transport and General Workers' Union march to Parliament, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, South African Police, Labor unions
Description: Demonstrations - Trade unions. Disgruntled workers: Members of the Transport and General Workers' Union marched to parliament today to hand over memoranda to several ministers about the state of the passenger transport sector and the contract cleaning sector.
Identifier: islandora:17745

Title: Parents of prisoner, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political prisoners, Apartheid
Description: Feeling shattered - Katie and William De Klerk with a picture of daughter Venetia, 19, whose "home" for the next 12 months is Pollsmoor Prison.
Identifier: islandora:17910

Title: Bandstand at the old Pier, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Cape Town Harbour, City planning, Recreation, Energy
Description: This view of the old pier shows the bandstand where the Cape Town orchestra gave popular concerts every Sunday afternoon.
Identifier: islandora:17062

Title: "Free hunger strikers now" placard, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Politics
Description: "Free hunger strikers now" placard, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17869

Title: Little girl asks for the release of her father, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Labor unions
Description: Leila Issel, 8, with a placard calling for the release of her father, detained trade unionist Johnny Issel.
Identifier: islandora:17806

Title: Demonstrations, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Youth, Demonstrations, Apartheid, Politics, Student protestors,
Description: Students protesting, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17660

Title: Apartheid-era whites-only restaurant at D.F. Malan Airport, Cape Town, in the 1970s
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town International Airport, Apartheid, Airlines--Food service, Segregation, Architecture
Description: Restaurant at D.F.Malan Airport during the apartheid era. This restaurant was reserved for whites only.
Identifier: islandora:15878

Title: Foreshore, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), circa 1957, Urban areas, Infrastructure, Architecture, Land, Urban development, Buildings
Description: Foreshore
Identifier: islandora:15104

Title: Students protesting, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Youth, Demonstrations, Apartheid, Politics, Student protestors,
Description: Students protesting, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17659

Title: Unveiling of Jan van Riebeeck statue, Cape Town, 1899
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Afrikaner nationalism
Description: Unveiling of the statue of Jan van Riebeeck at the entrance to the old pier by the mayor, 1899.
Identifier: islandora:17086

Title: Adderley Street fountain, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Urban areas, Infrastructure, Architecture, Land, Urban development, Buildings
Description: The fountain pictured in Adderley Street today looks a thirsty sight. It may soon blossom into life again.
Identifier: islandora:15102

Title: Protest, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations
Description: Protest, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17836

Title: Cape Town Castle, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Architecture, Military infrastructure, Tourism, Castle of Good Hope (Cape Town, South Africa)
Description: Voorplein at the Castle, Cape Town (published 4 October 1990).
Identifier: islandora:17205

Title: Fireman inspects damage done by petrol bomb, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Vandalism, Weapons, Education
Description: Fire Officer D. Arnold points out the circle of destroyed plaster typical of petrol bomb damage after a blaze which swept through classrooms, a library, a storeroom and parts of a laboratory at Langa High School last night.
Identifier: islandora:16293

Title: Steam trains, Cape Town, 20th century
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Transport, Sport, Bridges, Crowds
Description: Steam trains leaving Cape Town Station with Signal Hill in the background.
Identifier: islandora:17409

Title: Albert Hertzog sits looking defeated, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), National Party (South Africa), Politics
Description: Dr Albert Hertzog, former Cabinet Minister and rejected right-winger. In September 1969 his membership of the National Party was cancelled after the statements by him and some of his followers that only Calvinist Afrikaners could be trusted to rule South Africa. Soon after, he announced the formation of the Herstigte Nasionale Party.
Identifier: islandora:15977

Title: Duncan Basin, Cape Town Harbour, 1974
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Cape Town Harbour, Infrastructure, Weather, Wind
Description: Wind-whipped corner of Duncan Basin.
Identifier: islandora:17141

Title: Apartheid signage, Cape Town, 20th century
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Railways, Race discrimination
Description: Loading SA Transport Services "whites only" signs at Cape Town Station yesterday were Mr J L van Zyl (foreground) and Mr R Roodt. The signs, currently spares, were not destined for the rubbish pile.
Identifier: islandora:17411

Title: The old Railway building, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Railroads, Transport, Infrastructure, Architecture, Interior decoration
Description: The old Railway Institute building in Adderley Street as it was and as it is today. Soon it will be no more.
Identifier: islandora:16160

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