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Title: A new and most exact map of Africa described by N.I. Vischer and don into English; Enlarged and Corrected according to J. Blaeu and Others, With the Habits of ye people, and ye manner of ye Cheife sitties ye like never before
Subject: Africa
Description: Similar to Blaeu's map (see NOR 0030). The sea is decorated with more ships than usual for "maps of this period and the sea monsters are fewer and smaller.", London. Overton, John, 1640-1708?
Identifier: islandora:25448

Title: Africa
Subject: Africa -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: Printed above map: "Engraved for Walkers Geography &c". Published by John Walker in his Atlas to Walker's geography and gazetteer, 1799., Relief shown by shading and spot heights., Restored and hinged between acid free boards.
Identifier: islandora:19738

Title: South Africa, north western sheet
Subject: South Africa--Description and travel--Maps, , , ,
Description: Map showing the north west of South Africa, with larger portions of South West Africa and Bechuanaland, international boundaries, towns and places, railways, roads, pans, reserves, dams, rivers, and deserts. No scale or projection given.
Identifier: islandora:29936

Title: Plastic shelters, Nyanga, South Africa, circa 1975
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Squatter settlements--South Africa, Temporary housing--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: Children playing outside their home - a tent made of plastic in Nyanga, on the Cape Flats, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:928

Title: Africa
Subject: Africa
Description: Another map that resembles the shape of Orlelius. The outline of the oval-shaped cartouche is scrollwork with floral ornamentation. The sea is stippled and contains three ships and two sea monsters., Siena. Arnoldi, Arnoldo de, d. 1602
Identifier: islandora:25236

Title: [North Africa]
Subject: Northern Africa
Description: Map shaped irregular. Volume edited by Michael Servetus or Villanovanus., Lyons. Trechsel, Melchior, fl. 1529-1549; Trechsel, Gaspard, fl. 1529-1549
Identifier: islandora:25267

Title: Map of part of Africa showing the progress of the expedition under Messrs Richardson, Barth, Overweg & Vogel in the years 1850-1853
Subject: Africa, West -- Maps., Africa, North -- Maps., Africa, West -- Discovery and exploration -- Maps., Africa, North -- Discovery and exploration -- Maps.
Description: The map shows Libya, Sudan, a portion of the Sahara desert, Benin, Cameroon and surrounding countries to the coast of the Gulf of Guinea. The map also indicates the following routes: Richardson, Barth, Overweg and Vogel, 1850-1853; Hornemann, 1798; Ritchie and Lyon, 1818-1825; Oudney, Denham and Clapperton, 1822-1825; Clapperton and Lander, 1825 & 1826; Lander 1830 (the same journey was repeated by Allen and Oldfield in 1833); Dickson 1851 and "Native Routes". The map is surrounded by impressions of Africa including "Ghat, the Tuaricks [Tuareg]", "Mursuk, the Tibbus", Lake Tsad [Chad], "Roman ruins at Ghareah", as well as portraits of James Richardson, Adolf Overweg, Heinrich Barth and Eduard Vogel., "Designed & executed by A. Petermann". "The border del[ineated] & lith[ographed] by F Moras".
Identifier: islandora:19667

Title: Africae Pars Australis
Subject: Southern Africa
Description: Identical style to Scherer's earlier map (see NOR 0062). Includes a cartouche with animals, flying fish, sailing vessel and a sea serpent., Munich. Scherer, Heinrich, 1628-1704
Identifier: islandora:25399

Title: SAMRO UCT Big Band, Chisholm Recital Room, South African College of Music, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: Concert programs, Concerts--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: Concert programme
Identifier: islandora:30293

Title: Rehabilitating dam walls, Msinga, South Africa
Subject: Women--South Africa, Laborers--South Africa, Dams--South Africa, Water--South Africa,
Description: Female workers rehabilitate the walls of a dam in Msinga, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, 1993.
Identifier: islandora:18384

Title: Negotiating, Johannesburg, South Africa
Subject: Men--South Africa, Social conditions--South Africa, City dwellers--South Africa,
Description: Negotiating, Johannesburg CBD, South Africa
Identifier: islandora:1260

Title: Image from rock painting site. Site of De Tronk II, Piketberg, South Africa.
Subject: Rock paintings--South Africa--Western Cape., , ,
Description: Rock painting of an elephant in yellow paint.
Identifier: islandora:21489

Title: Report on the 3rd !x'-Bushman Orthography Conference of the Bible Society of South Africa at Windhoek: 23-25 June 1981
Subject: African languages, San languages, Ju/'hoan language, Linguistics
Description: A report on the 1981 San orthography conference
Identifier: islandora:7704

Title: After lunch, Johannesburg, South Africa
Subject: Leisure time--South Africa, Men--South Africa, Social life and customs--South Africa,
Description: Ian (L) and Addey after a very long lunch in Westdene, Johannesburg, 1992.
Identifier: islandora:1420

Title: SIBYELE 915 - Song for Marimba - South Africa
Subject: Music--Africa, Folk music--Africa, Concerts--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: African Music 2010, Baxter Concert Hall, Cape Town, South Africa
Identifier: islandora:28345

Title: Young child, Mai Mai market, Johannesburg, South Africa
Subject: Children--South Africa--Johannesburg, Markets--South Africa--Johannesburg
Description: A young child stands amongst pillows for sale at the Mai Mai market in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:18588

Title: Shepherd and his family, Cederberg, South Africa, 1987
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Children--South Africa, Shepherds--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: A shepherd and his family, outside the home he built himself under a massive rock in the Cederberg, south-western Cape, 1987. During the bitterly cold winter months, he would trek with his employer's sheep to the Ceres-Karoo, but as soon as spring arrived, he would start the long trek back to the mountains. This had been his life for the best of 70 odd years
Identifier: islandora:937

Title: Etienne Schepers, Acid tank, Base Metals Refinery, Springs, South Africa
Subject: Miners--South Africa, Mines and mining--South Africa, Men--South Africa,
Description: Etienne Schepers, a senior process operator of the Acid tank at Base Metals Refinery in Springs. Impala Platinum
Identifier: islandora:1332

Title: Functions, forms and challenges facing theatre in a changing South Africa : CAP theatre seminar
Subject: Community Arts Project (Cape Town, South Africa), Theater--South Africa
Description: Notice and programme for a theatre seminar convened by the Community Arts Project (CAP). The seminar was held on Saturday 29 September 1990.
Identifier: islandora:19029

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