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Title: Prison cell, Robben Island, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Robben Island (South Africa), Historic sites, Jails, Interior architecture
Description: An inside view of a typical single cell.
Identifier: islandora:16527

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: Existing Land Use (this drawing maps the existing land uses in terms of vineyards and fallow / unused pastures), Scale: NTS (scale bar indicated)
Identifier: islandora:22680

Title: City Bowl and Devil's Peak
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Aerial views, Historic buildings, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950.
Description: View of central Cape Town towards Devil's Peak, before the demolition of District Six.
Identifier: islandora:17047

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: Site Plan (this drawing indicates existing infrastructure including roads, pathways and buildings, as well as site boundaries and topo- cadastral information)., Scale: NTS (scale bar indicated)
Identifier: islandora:22675

Title: Table Mountain and the old Pier, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historical, Cape Town Harbour, Architecture, Recreation
Description: Unused postcard titled "Promenade Pier and Table Mountain from bay, Cape Town".
Identifier: islandora:17059

Title: Gas explosion in Adderley Street, Cape Town, 1937
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Utilities, Energy, Disasters
Description: Devastation: the Heerengracht sewer, above, shattered by the gas explosion at the point where Mabel Stacey was crossing. The old Stuttafords store is on the immediate left, with Markhams, still in existence, on the next corner.
Identifier: islandora:17358

Title: Corner of Loop and Hout Streets, Cape Town, 1974
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Roads, Urban development, City planning, Historic buildings
Description: This building on the corner of Loop and Hout streets is not one of the oldest in the area, but it is one of the best preserved and will be affected by the road widening.
Identifier: islandora:17513

Title: Greenhouse and rose garden in the Company's Gardens, Cape Town, 1960
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Recreation, Historic buildings, Infrastructure, Colonialism
Description: The greenhouse in the Company's Gardens, near the rose garden that was designed and built in 1929.
Identifier: islandora:17253

Title: Long Street, Cape Town,
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Demolition, Urban development, City planning
Description: Long Street?, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:17461

Title: Demolishing the Pier, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historic sites, Cape Town Harbour, City planning, Building
Description: Cape Town's disappearing pier [taken] f+D41rom an unusual angle. Workmen are busy demolishing the concrete upper-structure, [and when they] have finished, the pier itself will be blown up.
Identifier: islandora:17060

Title: Demolition, Malay Quarter, Cape Town
Subject: Bo-Kaap (Cape Town, South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Architecture, Historic buildings, Historic districts
Description: Demolition of houses in the Malay Quarter, Cape Town, in the late 1970s
Identifier: islandora:17237

Title: Lloyds' Building, Cape Town, 1953
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historical, Demolition, Political organisations, Urban development
Description: The Communist Party of South Africa (Cape District) had its offices at Lloyd's Building in Burg St, Cape Town, before its banning.
Identifier: islandora:17198

Title: Wynberg, Cape Town
Subject: Wynberg (Cape Town, South Africa), Urban development, Motorcars, Roads, Historic buildings
Description: Stone pines in Wynberg, Cape Town, in the first half of the twentieth century.
Identifier: islandora:17509

Title: Robben Island, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Robben Island (South Africa), Historic sites, Shorelines, Docks, Ships
Description: Pictures taken on Robben Island before the turn of the century. The bay and harbour are named after John Murray, who started a whaling station in 1806. The name Murray's Bay remains to this day.
Identifier: islandora:16554

Title: Long Street, Cape Town, 1982
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historical monuments, Urban development
Description: An example of the Victorian cast-iron balconies found in the street. Recently the National Monuments Council declared No's 178 to 196 Long Street a temporary national monument to try to prevent the demolition of a similar balcony.
Identifier: islandora:17447

Title: Prison guards' homes, Robben Island, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Robben Island (South Africa), Political prisoners, Historic sites, Monuments, Residential buildings
Description: Robben Island
Identifier: islandora:16482

Title: Cape Town CBD, Cape Town, circa 1970
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historical, City planning, Urban development, Energy
Description: Aerial view of Cape Town's city centre in the late 1960s, when the Trust Bank building was the tallest skyscraper and the Dock Road power station was still in operation.
Identifier: islandora:17091

Title: Gas explosion in Adderley Street, Cape Town, 1937
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Utilities, Energy, Disasters
Description: Another of Mr Akkersdyk's Adderley-street explosion "scoop" pictures.
Identifier: islandora:17351

Title: Mother with five children, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Robben Island (South Africa), Historic sites, Monuments, Armed forces
Description: Babeta, wife of Lieutenant Commander John Henry Wicht, who is in charge of the Robben Island naval base, poses with their five children (left to right) Jolene, Louise, David, Peter and Johan. Mrs Wicht was once a social worker in Harlem, New York.
Identifier: islandora:16517

Title: Government Avenue bisects the Company's Gardens, Cape Town, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Recreation, Historic buildings, Botanical gardens, Architecture
Description: Bird's-eye view of the Company's Gardens, Cape Town, from Queen Victoria Street parallel to Government Avenue and across to the National Gallery, 1962.
Identifier: islandora:17250

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