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Title: Long Street, Cape Town, circa 1900
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Architecture, Urban development, Commerce, Roads
Description: Long Street near the turn of the century. The building in the middle still houses John Marcus and Son.
Identifier: islandora:17362

Title: Anglican Church of St. Barnabas, Tamboerskloof, Cape Town, 1961
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: Built of Table Mountain sandstone and Kloof granite, St. Barnabas's Church has a red roof which contrasts pleasing with the pines that stand as sentinels. The building has the charm that is derived from solid mellowness of weathered stone.
Identifier: islandora:17290

Title: Map of central Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: Map shows names of principal streets, the railway system, Table Bay, foreshore development, and an index to main buildings and places of interest., The map is torn and poorly mended.
Identifier: islandora:19922

Title: Moravian Chapel in District Six, Cape Town, 1987
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Historic buildings, Religion, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Race discrimination
Description: The battered 101 year old Moravian Chapel in what was District Six.
Identifier: islandora:17320

Title: High Constantia, Constantia, Cape Town, 1954
Subject: Constantia (Cape Town South Africa), Colonialism, Culture, Historic buildings, Urban development
Description: Rambling High Constantia, built by Robertson Fuller Bertram early this century, with its chimneys and gables. High Constantia - it has 29 bedrooms - [?] six acres of land was brought today (subject to confirmation) by Mr Duncan Taylor for - 0, 100[?] The seller was the Royal Institute of International Affairs, which received the property as a gift from Sir Henry Price, one of the founders of the Institute. The auctioneers were Zoutendyk and Brand, Ltd.
Identifier: islandora:17467

Title: Sea Point swimming pool, Cape Town
Subject: Sea Point (Cape Town, South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Water
Description: The public swimming pool at Sea Point, Cape Town, 1985.
Identifier: islandora:17197

Title: Deserted football field in Maitland, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Soccer, Recreation areas, ,
Description: The limp goalposts on the football field, residents say, tell a story of despondency - 23 years in the shadow of the Group Areas Act has taken its toll of soccer, once the most popular sport in the area.
Identifier: islandora:15196

Title: UCT Opera School presents: UCT Opera Kaleidoscope, aka Opera Unknown, Baxter Concert Hall, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: Concert programs, Concerts--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: Concert programme
Identifier: islandora:30289

Title: Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Castle of Good Hope (Cape Town, South Africa), Colonialism, Architecture, Marching bands
Description: Outer court or Bailey at the Castle, Cape Town, before restoration, looking towards De Kat balcony.
Identifier: islandora:17107

Title: Salvation Army citadel, Cape Town, 1971
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: Citadel: The Salvation Army's new citadel in the Gardens, which will be opened on Saturday.
Identifier: islandora:17308

Title: Company's Gardens, Cape Town, 1966
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Children, Birds, Recreation
Description: For the birds: feeding the pigeons in the Company's Gardens, Cape Town, 1966.
Identifier: islandora:17262

Title: Young newspaper vendor, Cape Town
Subject: Child labor--South Africa, Poor children--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Newspaper vendors--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: A child newspaper vendor stands barefoot, ready to begin the day's work before sunrise.
Identifier: islandora:5726

Title: Amanda Tiffin and Andrew Lilley present students from the SACM Jazz Piano Studio and the Jazz Vocal Studio, 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:30292

Title: Winnie Mandela speaks to Omar Dullah, Cape Town
Subject: Mandela, Winnie, Omar, Dullah, Politicians--South Africa, Post-apartheid era
Description: Controversial: Mrs Winnie Mandela, in the centre of controversy over her West African trip and the police investigations against her. Dullah Omar and Winnie Mandela.
Identifier: islandora:14750

Title: Rondebosch Congregational Church, Cape Town, 1961
Subject: Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: Congregational Church (Rondebosch) - In the porch of a pretty stone-and-brick church at Rondebosch, where Devil's Peak dominates the skyline, is the stone which once lay on the grave of Dr. Johannes van der Kemp - one of the pioneer missionaries who brought Congregationalism to South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:17276

Title: Father and child on the beach, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: South Africa--Social life and customs, Men--South Africa, Women--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Cities and towns--Cape Town,
Description: A father plays with his young child on a beach in Cape Town, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:18660

Title: Aerial view, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Urban development, Urban areas, Transport, Infrastructure, Trains
Description: Sites have been cleared for Cape Town's new railway station and the £1,180,000 S.A. Railways administrative block. They are being built on the seaward side of the present station, shown in this aerial photograph. Dominating the Foreshore is the £3,158,00 Culemborg goods terminal and sheds.
Identifier: islandora:15111

Title: Green Point lighthouse, Cape Town 1950
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Labour, Historic buildings, Shipping
Description: Workmen were today painting vivid bands of yellow, black and white on the Green Point Lighthouse to make it more easily distinguishable.
Identifier: islandora:17402

Title: The S A Railways building on the Foreshore, Cape Town, 1959
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Architecture, Building
Description: Cape Town Foreshore: S. A. Railway Building.
Identifier: islandora:17433

Title: St. Mary's Catholic Cathedral, Cape Town, 1981
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: Yesterday marked the 130th anniversary of the dedication of St Mary's Cathedral and after Solemn High Mass, His Eminence Owen Cardinal McCann, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cape Town, braved the rain together with Monsignor C G Watkins (on the archbishop's left), the Rev Father Rodney Hall (on his right) and the choir to pose for the Cape Times outside the cathedral.
Identifier: islandora:17296

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