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Title: Morgan's timber yard chimney, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), City planning, Roads, Demolition, Building
Description: This old Small and Morgan's timber yard chimney was built in 1916 and now is about to be knocked down to make way for the Foreshore-Western Boulevard road link.
Identifier: islandora:17037

Title: Long Street, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Infrastructure, Urban development, City planning, Roads
Description: Long Street
Identifier: islandora:17363

Title: Culemborg goods station, Cape Town, circa 1952
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Transport, Infrastructure, Urban development, City planning
Description: One of the huge loading banks at the new Culemborg goods station, which was opened for traffic over the weekend. A feature of the station is the large number of weighing scales scattered along the platforms.
Identifier: islandora:17396

Title: YWCA Building, Long Street, Cape Town, circa 1979
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Urban development, City planning
Description: The future of the old YWCA building, a fine example of Victorian architecture in Long Street is in the balance. The old YWCA building, or No. 76 to 80 Long Street, is listed in the definitive work, Buildings of Central Cape Town, as being Victorian with a distinctive cast of double level veranda. On the second floor a panel reads 'In memory of Minnie and Maria Bam, Founded 1886 Rebuilt 1903.'
Identifier: islandora:17444

Title: Parliamentary Precinct
Subject: South Africa ; Western Cape, Province of the ; Cape Town, Gardens (open spaces), Parterres, Gardens--South Africa--Cape Town--Designs and plans, Tuynhuys (Cape Town, South Africa)
Description: Tuynhuys, Cape Town, Western Cape. Tuynhuys parterre plan. Copy of hand-drawn landscape survey plan, indicating the layout and plant species of the Tuynhuys parterre garden. This drawing was used as a design informant for later interventions., Scale: 1:240
Identifier: islandora:22693

Title: Bandstand at the old Pier, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Cape Town Harbour, City planning, Recreation, Energy
Description: This view of the old pier shows the bandstand where the Cape Town orchestra gave popular concerts every Sunday afternoon.
Identifier: islandora:17062

Title: Municipal parking area, Randburg
Subject: Parking lots--South Africa--Johannesburg--Designs and plans,
Description: Parking area, Ferndale, Johannesburg. Sketch plan of parking area layout, Ferndale, for Randburg Town Council., Photographic copy of ammonia print of hand-drawn original (extract from portfolio).
Identifier: islandora:28144

Title: 1950s traffic in Voortrekker Road, Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Urban development, Roads, Apartheid, Commerce, City planning
Description: Saturday morning traffic. A view of the island where Voortrekker Road and Durbanville Road meet at Bellville.
Identifier: islandora:16789

Title: Street in Atlantis, Cape Town
Subject: Atlantis (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Labour, Industrialisation, City planning
Description: There are now more than 600 houses completed and occupied by employees of new industries at Atlantis.
Identifier: islandora:16701

Title: Township, Cape Town
Subject: Athlone (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Coloured people (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Housing, City planning
Description: Township housing development at 'Q' Town the Cape Flats in the 1940s.
Identifier: islandora:16974

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: Blue Downs, Cape Town
Subject: Blue Downs (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Townships, Apartheid, Housing, City planning
Description: A bulldozer prepares the ground for new housing developments at Blue Downs, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16881

Title: House in Sweet Valley, Cape Town
Subject: Bergvliet (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Housing, Apartheid, Whites, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, City planning
Description: Apartheid-era housing development in Sweet Valley near Bergvliet, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16849

Title: Railway lines, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historical, Urban development, City planning, Transport
Description: View taken from Cape Town's new post office, etc.
Identifier: islandora:17434

Title: Sea Point shoreline and Signal Hill
Subject: Sea Point (Cape Town, South Africa), Urban development, City planning, Environment, Recreation
Description: Signal Hill is seen on the left with the pavilion below it.
Identifier: islandora:17020

Title: Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, City planning, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950., Housing, Afrikaners,
Description: Aerial view of Bellville in the mid-1960s.
Identifier: islandora:16816

Title: Land reclamation, Foreshore, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Aerial views, Urban development, City planning, Building
Description: Cape Town Harbour and reclaimed land on the Foreshore, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17143

Title: Meadowridge housing, Cape Town
Subject: Meadowridge (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Housing, Apartheid, Whites, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, City planning
Description: New housing development at Meadowridge, Cape Town, adjacent to agricultural land
Identifier: islandora:16847

Title: Adderley Street, Cape Town, 1962
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Roads, Urban development, City planning, Recreation
Description: The entrance to Adderley Street from Government Avenue, Cape Town, 1962.
Identifier: islandora:17254

Title: Parktown redevelopment, Johannesburg
Subject: Parktown (Johannesburg, South Africa), City planning--South Africa--Johannesburg,
Description: Parktown, Johannesburg. Theoretical study of possible redevelopment of the area., Photographic copy of ammonia print of hand-drawn original (extract from portfolio).
Identifier: islandora:28148

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