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Title: Aerial view, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Urban areas, Infrastructure, Land, Urban development, Buildings
Description: The view of Cape Town, looking in a south-easterly direction, is another of the series taken by The Argus photographer from the top of recently completed 300ft. chimney at the Dock-Road power station. In the centre of the picture are the railway motor transport sheds and marshalling yards, and to the right of them monument station, the goods yards and part of the main station. The Grand Boulevard, which is planned as the main road link with the southern suburbs, will join Adderley Street at the extreme left of the picture, and where the fun fair appears in the photograph, the 1,000,000 Van Riebeeck Hotel will be built.
Identifier: islandora:15110

Title: Protesters against the development of District Six, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Housing, Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: Picket line ... Protestors line the owner of Lower Burg and Riebeeck streets yesterday during a legal lunch-time protest against the development of District Six. The protesters later confronted Iico management, one of the companies proposing to build houses in the district.
Identifier: islandora:17762

Title: Prosecution, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Youth, South African Police, Prosecution
Description: Members of the families bringing the prosecution, from left, Mrs Georgina Williams, Mr Theo Williams, Mr Martin Magmoed and Mrs Williams's sister Mrs A. Du Toit.
Identifier: islandora:17599

Title: Cape Town City
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), circa 1939, Urban areas, Infrastructure, Architecture, Land, Development
Description: Foreshore
Identifier: islandora:15078

Title: March in support of detainees, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political prisoners, Apartheid, Demonstrations
Description: March in support of detainees, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17941

Title: Statue of Jan van Riebeeck, Cape Town pier
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Cape Town Harbour, Transport, Urban development
Description: Statue of Jan van Riebeeck in its original location at the entrance to Cape Town Pier, circa 1920s.
Identifier: islandora:17074

Title: Malan's Cabinet, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Cabinet ministers, National Party (South Africa), Governments
Description: Malan's Cabinet
Identifier: islandora:16899

Title: Police wearing gas masks fire teargas, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Law enforcement, Weapons, Demonstrations
Description: Police wearing gas masks and armed with rifles used for firing teargas canisters stand in Bonteheuwel where stoning took place yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:16195

Title: Spring daisies, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Urban areas, Infrastructure, Architecture, Land, Urban development, Flowers
Description: Magic carpet of spring for city. Daisies are blooming on the Foreshore on land that is valued up to £11 a square foot.
Identifier: islandora:15101

Title: Trunk found in terrorist apartment, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Trials, Weapons
Description: Weapons exhibit: Constable Karen Dalhouzie looks into the trunk containing AK-47 rifles and ammunition, limpet mines, hand grenades and other arms and ammunition, allegedly found in the Wynberg flat of terrorism accused Ms Jenny Schreiner. It is one of the more than 400 exhibits before court in the Yengeni trial which began earlier this year.
Identifier: islandora:17614

Title: Family and friends of the accused sing freedom songs outside the Supreme Court, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, African National Congress, Political prisoners, Apartheid, Political activists
Description: African National Congress (ANC) trial. Family and friends of the 15 accused sing freedom songs as they walk to the station from the Supreme Court building yesterday afternoon.
Identifier: islandora:15936

Title: Insurance plan of Cape Town, Cape Colony, South Africa
Subject: Insurance--South Africa--Cape Town--Maps., Fire risk assessment--South Africa--Cape Town--Maps., Cape Town (South Africa)--Maps., Cape Town (South Africa)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Maps.
Description: The plans record street names, widths and numbers; fire-protection facilities (including the location of salt and fresh water hydrants); materials, shape, height, placement and use of buildings; the location of openings, types of stored materials and areas of high-risk activites on industrial sites., Sheet 1 comprises the key plan indicating 9 areas of central Cape Town surveyed by Goad (scale 1:6,000. 1 in. to 500 feet). This key plan includes notes on the water supply (salt and fresh) in central Cape Town, details of personnel and equipment of the Cape Town Fire Brigade and general comments on the city's climate and buildings. Also included is a sheet comprising an index of streets, buildings and firms. The buildings are colour coded by material type., Title from key plan on sheet 1., The 11 sheets (1 index and 10 maps) are in a hardcover volume, each sheet forming 2 leaves., This volume is one of 18 Cape Town fire-insurance atlases surveyed and drawn by Charles Edward Goad and printed in 1895. The bookplate pasted on the inside of the front cover indicates this copy was intended for the Union Assurance Society.
Identifier: islandora:19825

Title: University of the Western Cape students march, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Education, Higher
Description: University of the Western Cape (UWC) students march, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16084

Title: Protest, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Law enforcement, Weapons
Description: Policeman gives orders to a subordinate, amongst the police battling the protesters, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16409

Title: Children sitting around a table in a classroom doing art and craft activities, District Six, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--Social conditions, District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--History, Cape Town (South Africa)--History, ,
Description: Children sit around a table and partake in arts and crafts activities in a classroom in District Six, Cape Town in the 1970's prior to the state orchestrated forced removals to locations further from the city.
Identifier: islandora:18501

Title: Long Street, Cape Town, 1980
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Business, Tourism, Women, Economy
Description: Morris, the butcher, with the boerewors which has made him famous. With him is his "right hand man" Odette Dhort.
Identifier: islandora:17452

Title: Dignitaries inspect armed forces, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Armed forces
Description: Dignitaries inspect armed forces, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:15997

Title: UDF supporter speaks to crowd, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), United Democratic Front (South Africa), Demonstrations, Civil unrest
Description: Mr Patrick Lekota, United Democratic Front (UDF) publicity secretary, addresses a lively anti-election rally in Athlone.
Identifier: islandora:16271

Title: Soup kitchen, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Soup kitchens, Homeless persons
Description: Right: Homeless squatters at a soup kitchen set up by the Islamic Medical Association and the Muslim Youth Movement. The soup kitchen and a first-aid post are in Lansdowne Road.
Identifier: islandora:17575

Title: SA Airways, station, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Urban areas, Infrastructure, Architecture, Land, Buildings
Description: Argus Chief Photographer Jim McLagan goes a bit glassy-eyed when he used the sheet of window pane in the station to get this double image.
Identifier: islandora:15103

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