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Title: [Insurance plan of Cape Town, Cape Colony, South Africa]
Subject: Insurance -- South Africa -- Cape Town -- Maps., Fire risk assessment -- South Africa -- Cape Town -- Maps., Cape Town (South Africa) -- Maps., Cape Town (South Africa) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Maps.
Description: This plan is numbered Sheet 13. The sheet shows details of the construction and use of buildings within the area bounded by Queen Victoria, Bloem, Bree and Wale Streets. The sheet records street names, widths and numbers; fire-protection facilities (including the location of salt and fresh water hydrants); materials, shape, height, placement and use of buildings; the location of openings, types of stored materials and areas of high-risk activites on industrial sites., "Copyright 1949". Handwritten: "Rev'd to Sept 1956"., The original sheet has been updated by the pasting of new sections over the original plan.
Identifier: islandora:19896

Title: Construction of Sanlamhof office block, Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Building, Business, Apartheid, Architecture, Commerce
Description: Work ahead of schedule. Work on Bellville's biggest office block, Sanlamhof, is well ahead of schedule and when the contractors, Murray and Stewart, go on holiday they will have met all their deadlines to date. They moved on to the Sanlamhof site in June last year with two definite hand-over dates required of them. But Christmas last year they were asked to add a further (fourth) floor of 2000 sq m to the Sanlamhof block and by Christmas of this year to complete five further floors on top of the lower floors. In addition, they had to erect a 280 sq m service core (consisting of four lifts, toilets) to one side of the enlarged complex and to install the top half of a new central lift shaft so that it can eventually serve the new floors as well. All these deadlines will be met on schedule.
Identifier: islandora:16828

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: House McConnell, Hout Bay: alterations and additions
Subject: South Africa ; Western Cape, Province of the ; Cape Town, Buildings--Additions--South Africa--Cape Town--Designs and plans, Dwellings--Remodeling--South Africa--Cape Town--Designs and plans
Description: Marais Road, Hout Bay, Cape Town, Western Cape. Proposed house alterations and additions. Elevations and sections hand-drawn in pen and ink on tracing paper., Elevations: scale 1:50/1:100
Identifier: islandora:22684

Title: Tuynhuys, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Public buildings, Politics, Residential buildings, Government
Description: Government House dining-room: state banquet.
Identifier: islandora:17207

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: 132 Long Street, Cape Town, 1983
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Computers, Technology, Business
Description: 132 Long Street, Cape Town, built circa 1909.
Identifier: islandora:17457

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: Insurance plan of Cape Town
Subject: Insurance -- South Africa -- Cape Town -- Maps., Fire risk assessment -- South Africa -- Cape Town -- Maps., Historic buildings -- South Africa -- Cape Town -- Maps., Cape Town (South Africa) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Maps., Cape Town (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: Each sheet shows the plan and vertical cross-section of buildings on the blocks bounded by: Sheet 1, Wale, St George's, Waterkant and Adderley streets; Sheet 2, Wale, Burg, Waterkant and St George's streets; Sheet 3, Wale, Long, Waterkant and Burg streets; Sheet 4, Wale, Loop, Waterkant and Long streets; Sheet 5, Wale, Bree, Waterkant and Loop streets; Sheet 6, Wale, Buitengracht, Waterkant and Bree streets; Sheet 7, Boom, Plein, Darling and Zieke streets; Sheet 8, Stal, Grave, Darling and Plein streets; Sheet 9, Garden of new Houses of Parliament, Adderley Street, Standard Bank buildings and Grave Street., Each sheet indicates the materials used in the construction of buildings, the uses of most buildings, height in stories, roof type and street widths., Black and white photographic copies. The original plan is colour coded.
Identifier: islandora:19904

Title: Loader Street, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Residential buildings, Infrastructure, Historic districts, ,
Description: Residences in Loader Street, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:15207

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: St. Stephen's Church, Cape Town, 1990
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Religion, Architecture, Historic buildings
Description: Architectural heritage: wooden casement windows in the historic St. Stephen's Church on Riebeeck Square are being replaced as part of a restoration project sponsored by the Vernacular Architecture Society. The church was built in 1800 as the first theatre in South Africa and helped relieve the garrison's boredom during the first British occupation. It became part of the Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk in 1857. Restoration workers, from left, Mr Kennet Plaatjies, Mr Sedick Slemming and Mr Shaheed Hendricks help conservation architect Mrs Pat Riley of the National Monuments Council size up a replacement window.
Identifier: islandora:17273

Title: Civic Centre, Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Buildings, Civil society, Local government, Architecture
Description: The Civic Centre at Bellville where the annual congress of the Cape Western Regional Publicity Association will be opened by the Mayor of Bellville, Mr. W. J. Bezuidenhout, to-day. The Civic Centre contains a civic theatre, council chamber and administrative offices. A city hall will be added in 1967. The "Cape Times" will publish next Wednesday, November 4, a special supplement on the great progress that has been made in recent years at Bellville.
Identifier: islandora:16785

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: Street in Ocean View, Cape Town
Subject: Residential buildings, Communities, Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Forced removals (South Africa), , ,
Description: Ocean View.
Identifier: islandora:15607

Title: Robben Island, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Robben Island (South Africa), Historic sites, Monuments, Youth, Church buildings
Description: The Anglican Church on Robben Island was built in 1841 and is now a historical monument. Whenever a child is born to an islander, a special flag - a green stork on a white background - is flown from the steeple.
Identifier: islandora:16555

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

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