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Title: View from the Railway building, Foreshore, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historical, Roads, Urban development, City planning
Description: View from the new Railway building, Foreshore, Cape Town, 1959
Identifier: islandora:17374

Title: The City Bowl from Signal Hill, 1940s
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Urban development, Historical, Environment, Table Mountain (Western Cape, South Africa)
Description: A beautiful view of Cape Town from the slopes of Signal Hill.
Identifier: islandora:17044

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: 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

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