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Title: Oaks trees lining suburban street, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Motorcars, Urban areas, Development, Roads, Infrastructure, Nature
Description: These fine oaks make De Waal Drive a popular Sunday afternoon jaunt with motorists. Another picture in The Argus series of Peninsula avenues.
Identifier: islandora:16477

Title: General view of the City Bowl, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Cape Town Harbour, Urban development, City planning
Description: Cape Town City Bowl towards Devil's Peak, showing the old harbour, docks and power stations, before the demolition of District Six.
Identifier: islandora:17046

Title: Wale Street, Cape Town, 1800s
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Architecture, Church buildings, Roads, Urban development
Description: Wale Street and St. George's Cathedral, circa 1852.
Identifier: islandora:17366

Title: Property development, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Urban parks, City planning, Real estate development, Building
Description: From the east side of the Common, there is a fine view across open ground towards Table Mountain and Devil's Peak. This is the sort of view flat-dwellers will have, if the proposal to re-zone the area to the east of the Common for flats is accepted.
Identifier: islandora:16612

Title: Post Office stone', Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Communications, Urban development, Building, Archaeology
Description: This old post office stone is probably one of the oldest found in the country. It was dug up on the Golden Acre site yesterday and is being examined by South African Museum officials. There are inscriptions on both sides of the stone and the date which looks like 1577. The name of a ship is also vaguely discernible. Mr Victor Thompson, seen here, is a carpenter working on the site. He spotted the stone in sand being excavated. [Iziko Museums Identification, 2013: 'Post office stone' left at the Cape by the Wapen Van Rotterdam (1622), which left from Goeree in the Netherlands on 9 November 1621 bound for Batavia in the East and visited Table Bay on her outward voyage. Inscription reads: i(n) Schip Ghena(EMD)Rotterdam daer opKersboom Schipper Gillis-Uut de Maes den 9 NovemberDen 30 Meert A(nno) 1622 Rick van Ja]
Identifier: islandora:17124

Title: Parliament Street, Cape Town, 1962
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Public buildings, Historic buildings, Urban development, City planning
Description: View of Parliament Street, which is to be handed over to the State by the Cape Town City Council. The section to be handed over stretches from the lower end of Marks Buildings to Stal Street, on Stal Plein.
Identifier: islandora:17342

Title: Rondebosch, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), City planning, Urban parks, Real estate development, Urban development, Building
Description: This is the Rondebosch Camp Ground position as the Wanderer saw it from the air. The new parkway excavations down the east side will reduce the commonage by 1-11th. True villagers are fighting for the inviolability of the ground as laid down in the Church Land Act of 1909.
Identifier: islandora:16615

Title: Foreshore, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), circa 1957, Urban areas, Infrastructure, Architecture, Land, Urban development, Buildings
Description: Foreshore
Identifier: islandora:15104

Title: Adderley Street fountain, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Urban areas, Infrastructure, Architecture, Land, Urban development, Buildings
Description: The fountain pictured in Adderley Street today looks a thirsty sight. It may soon blossom into life again.
Identifier: islandora:15102

Title: Offices of Herbert Penny & Co, St George's Street, Cape Town, circa 1925
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Architecture, Real estate agents, Urban development, Commerce
Description: In the beginning: Herbert Penny's offices at 45 St Georges Street. The picture was taken about 1925.
Identifier: islandora:17188

Title: Railway station being demolished, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Urban areas, Development, Transport, Motorcars, Building
Description: Bulldozers (centre of picture) are cutting a swath through the old main line railway station to make way for a new road leading into the centre of the city. From Adderley Street, the new freeway, an extension of Strand Street, will carry the Sea Point traffic bound for the suburbs, straight to the Castle, then to the traffic interchange at the old market. There the new street will join the Eastern Boulevard.
Identifier: islandora:16558

Title: The old Opera House, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Architecture, Performing arts, Demolition, Urban development
Description: The old Opera House: many of Cape Town's senior citizens will remember the old Opera House which was opened in 1893 and demolished in 1937. It stood at the corner of Darling and Parliament Streets on the site presently occupied by the General Post Office and was built before the present Standard Bank Building was extended from Adderley Street through to Parliament Street (or Grave Street as it was then known). The Opera House Restaurant on the first floor was for many years one of the most popular eating-out establishments in Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17182

Title: Aerial view, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Urban areas, Infrastructure, Land, Urban development, Buildings
Description: The view of Cape Town, looking in a south-easterly direction, is another of the series taken by The Argus photographer from the top of recently completed 300ft. chimney at the Dock-Road power station. In the centre of the picture are the railway motor transport sheds and marshalling yards, and to the right of them monument station, the goods yards and part of the main station. The Grand Boulevard, which is planned as the main road link with the southern suburbs, will join Adderley Street at the extreme left of the picture, and where the fun fair appears in the photograph, the 1,000,000 Van Riebeeck Hotel will be built.
Identifier: islandora:15110

Title: Cape Town City
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), circa 1939, Urban areas, Infrastructure, Architecture, Land, Development
Description: Foreshore
Identifier: islandora:15078

Title: Statue of Jan van Riebeeck, Cape Town pier
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Cape Town Harbour, Transport, Urban development
Description: Statue of Jan van Riebeeck in its original location at the entrance to Cape Town Pier, circa 1920s.
Identifier: islandora:17074

Title: Spring daisies, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Urban areas, Infrastructure, Architecture, Land, Urban development, Flowers
Description: Magic carpet of spring for city. Daisies are blooming on the Foreshore on land that is valued up to £11 a square foot.
Identifier: islandora:15101

Title: SA Airways, station, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Urban areas, Infrastructure, Architecture, Land, Buildings
Description: Argus Chief Photographer Jim McLagan goes a bit glassy-eyed when he used the sheet of window pane in the station to get this double image.
Identifier: islandora:15103

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