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Title: Cape Town Station forecourt, 1968
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Architecture, Building, Transport
Description: Forecourt of the new Cape Town Station, 1968.
Identifier: islandora:17440

Title: Swimming race from the Cape Town pier, 1922
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historical, Sport, Recreation, Swimming
Description: Competitors in the Gordons Gala in Cape Town in 1922 had a tough venue for their races: the old Cape Town pier, where this picture was taken of the mens' two-mile event. [The photograph is one of several appearing on special sepia pages of the prestige 56-page Cape Times Centenary Supplement, which appears as an extra section with all copies of the Cape Times on Saturday, March 27.]
Identifier: islandora:17185

Title: First railway station, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Railroads, Transport, Infrastructure, Historic sites
Description: Very first railway station in Woodstock.
Identifier: islandora:16147

Title: Bree Street, Cape Town, 1978
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Urban development, Historic buildings, Motorcars
Description: Building dating to 1904 in Bree Street, Cape Town, 1978
Identifier: islandora:17505

Title: Robben Island coastline, Table Mountain in background, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Robben Island (South Africa), Political prisoners, Historic sites, Monuments
Description: Sandy shore: For residents, at least the more privileged, there is this stretch of pristine beach, unspoilt by litter. The water, of course, is icy cold.
Identifier: islandora:16484

Title: Mothers praying for sons facing trial, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Political prisoners, Historic sites, Monuments, Religion
Description: Waiting and praying: Mrs Else Schreiner and Mrs Nomonde Nkwandla, mothers of hunger-striking trialists Jenny and Wellington, at the service in St George's Cathedral yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:16505

Title: Residences in Mowbray, Cape Town
Subject: Historic buildings, Residential buildings, Table Mountain (Western Cape, South Africa), ,
Description: Residences in Mowbray, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:15442

Title: Groot Constantia: Preliminary Landscaping
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: Preliminary Landscaping Plan: hand drawn with pen and ink on tracing, indicating the preliminary landscaping and conceptual layout of the (then) new cellar and restaurant complex adjacent the historic farm werf at the Groot Constantia Wine Estate, Groot Constantia Road, Cape Town South Africa,, Scale 1:200 on A1. Project number 85 GI 01
Identifier: islandora:22458

Title: Robben Island Primary School, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Robben Island (South Africa), Historic sites, Monuments, Architecture, Education
Description: Headmaster: Robben Island Primary School principal, Mr Jors de Ridder, and his three teachers, Mrs Christa de Lange, left, Mrs Marina Kitshoff and Mrs Maggie Viviers, and the school's 65 pupils.
Identifier: islandora:16508

Title: Insurance plan of Cape Town
Subject: Insurance -- South Africa -- Cape Town -- Maps., Fire risk assessment -- South Africa -- Cape Town -- Maps., Historic buildings -- South Africa -- Cape Town -- Maps., Cape Town (South Africa) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Maps., Cape Town (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: Each sheet shows the plan and vertical cross-section of buildings on the blocks bounded by: Sheet 1, Wale, St George's, Waterkant and Adderley streets; Sheet 2, Wale, Burg, Waterkant and St George's streets; Sheet 3, Wale, Long, Waterkant and Burg streets; Sheet 4, Wale, Loop, Waterkant and Long streets; Sheet 5, Wale, Bree, Waterkant and Loop streets; Sheet 6, Wale, Buitengracht, Waterkant and Bree streets; Sheet 7, Boom, Plein, Darling and Zieke streets; Sheet 8, Stal, Grave, Darling and Plein streets; Sheet 9, Garden of new Houses of Parliament, Adderley Street, Standard Bank buildings and Grave Street., Each sheet indicates the materials used in the construction of buildings, the uses of most buildings, height in stories, roof type and street widths., Black and white photographic copies. The original plan is colour coded.
Identifier: islandora:19906

Title: Culemborg goods depot, 1952
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Festivals, Transport, Historic buildings, City planning
Description: Hundreds of tons of goods are already being handled in the new goods shed on the Foreshore, which four months ago was the main exhibition hall of the Van Riebeeck Festival.
Identifier: islandora:17417

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: The first single-decker trams in Adderley Street, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Transport, Historic buildings, Photography, Media
Description: Picture history of Mother City - "Cape Town down the years", the Cape Times photographic exhibition, is to be officially opened by the Mayor of Cape Town, Mr John Tyers, at the Shell Gallery in Greenmarket Square on Wednesday, April 6. The exhibition, which consists of about 160 photographs, will remain open from April 7 to 29 as part of the Cape Town Festival. The gallery will be closed on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays. The picture above was taken about 80 years ago in Adderley Street, when the first single-deck trams were introduced in the City. (Published 1 April, 1977)
Identifier: islandora:17341

Title: Freed prisoners disembark from the boat, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Political prisoners, Historic sites, Monuments
Description: Prisoners.
Identifier: islandora:16494

Title: Steam trains at Cape Town Station, circa 1900
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Trains, Historic buildings, Transport, Architecture
Description: Left: Wynberg Tower Cape 3rd Class, 1898. Right: Wynberg Tank Class 02, 1882.
Identifier: islandora:17414

Title: Cemetery, Robben Island, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Robben Island (South Africa), Historic sites, Monuments, Architecture, Cemeteries
Description: The old cemetery on Robben Island - only personnel are buried here.
Identifier: islandora:16520

Title: Rhodes Memorial, Devil's Peak, Cape Town, 1966
Subject: Table Mountain (Western Cape, South Africa), Historical, Environment, Devil's Peak (Western Cape, South Africa)
Description: Fallow deer on the slopes of Devil's Peak below Rhodes Memorial, 1966
Identifier: islandora:17178

Title: Table Mountain, Cape Town, from the City Bowl
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historical monuments, Environment, Conservation of natural resources
Description: Before Table Mountain can be declared a national monument as urged by public bodies, the area, about 180 morgen, between the dotted line and the white line (municipal boundary) [not visible on image] will first have to be expropriated. There is a similar large tract of land on the Camps Bay side of the mountain.
Identifier: islandora:17042

Title: Morgenster
Subject: South Africa ; Western Cape, Province of the ; Somerset West, Wine estates, Morgenster (Somerset West, South Africa), Historic farms--South Africa--Somerset West, Historic farms--Conservation and restoration--South Africa--Somerset West, Historic farms--South Africa--Somerset West, Historic farms--Conservation and restoration--South Africa--Somerset West, Wineries--South Africa--Somerset West, Landscape architecture--South Africa--Somerset West
Description: Upper Morgenster: (remainder of farm MORGENSTER No. 1319, Somerset, West). Pen and Ink on tracing paper site analysis drawing series: Slope Orientation / Aspect (this drawing interprets the contour information to map different slope orientation)., Scale: NTS (scale bar indicated)
Identifier: islandora:22681

Title: Aerial view of the old station in Cape Town, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Railroads, Transport, Infrastructure, Historic sites
Description: Aerial view of the old station in Cape Town, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16159

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