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Title: Adderley Street, Cape Town, circa 1930s
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Architecture, Tramways, Transport, Urban development
Description: Night time scene on Adderley Street, Cape Town, with tramways and Fletcher & Cartwright Building
Identifier: islandora:17378

Title: Aerial view, Cape Town City
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Urban areas, Land, Urban development, Infrastructure, Transport
Description: Aerial view of the Foreshore in Cape Town shows the Monumental Park in the foreground, on which the opera house is to be built, flanked on the left by the industrial buildings close to the Culemborg goods yards and on the right by the Sanlam Centre and the new Medipark building. The new station complex and the Paul Sauer Railways Administration building can be seen in the open space between the station, and the Monumental Park is the site for the new Cape Civic Centre.
Identifier: islandora:15119

Title: Unearthing tramlines in central Cape Town, 1947
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Labour, Urban development, Transport
Description: The days of Cape Town's "two-penny bumpers" were recalled today when workmen in Strand Street started to unearth about 300 yards of tramline. The picture shows the men at work in the stretch of road between Long and Buitengracht Streets, where it is planned to erect traffic islands. It was found that the roads' crown was too high at this point. It will take about a month to complete the work.
Identifier: islandora:17350

Title: Aerial view of Cape Town city centre, 1981
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Architecture, City planning, Urban development, Railways
Description: A fine aerial view of the city centre with the railway station complex in the middle, the Golden Acre towards the top right and the Heerengracht fountains dominating the foreground.
Identifier: islandora:17090

Title: A weed harvester at work, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Zeekoevlei (South Africa), Water, Lakes, Machinery, Urban areas, Development
Description: To the rescue: busy yesterday, and in two weeks the weed harvester should have cleared the water hyacinth which has been choking Zeekoevlei.
Identifier: islandora:16570

Title: Adderley Street, Cape Town, 1954
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Architecture, Urban development, City planning
Description: Bird's-eye view of Adderley Street, Cape Town, in the mid-1950s, before development on the newly-reclaimed Foreshore.
Identifier: islandora:17368

Title: Cape Town City
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Urban areas, Infrastructure, Architecture, Land, Urban development
Description: Foreshore
Identifier: islandora:15087

Title: Athlone Power Station, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Athlone (Cape Town, South Africa), Urban areas, Infrastructure, Electric industries, Pollution
Description: Shrouded in early morning mist -- to which they are contributing generously -- are the twin towers of Athlone Power Station seen from De Waal Drive. In the background are the natural towers of the Hottentots Holland Mountains.
Identifier: islandora:18124

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: Squatters, Hout Bay, Cape Town
Subject: Urban poor--South Africa, Squatter settlements--South Africa, Temporary housing--South Africa, Dwellings--Social aspects--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: Mr. Fraser Anthony, who had lived in squatter camps most of his life.
Identifier: islandora:5744

Title: View of the City Bowl, Cape Town, in 1899
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), City planning, Urban development, Environment, Architecture
Description: Cape Town from Signal Hill, 1899.
Identifier: islandora:17051

Title: Aerial view of Chrysler's Elsies River plant, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Elsies River (South Africa), Apartheid, Urban development
Description: Aerial view of Chrysler's Elsies River plant.
Identifier: islandora:18115

Title: Rondebosch, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Urban areas, Infrastructure, Buildings
Description: Taronga Road, Rondebosch.
Identifier: islandora:16617

Title: Long Street, Cape Town,
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Motorcars, Architecture, Urban development, Business
Description: View up Long Street, Cape Town, towards Table Mountain.
Identifier: islandora:17459

Title: Groote Kerk, Cape Town, 1959
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Religion, City planning, Urban development, Architecture
Description: Aerial view of the Groote Kerk from Adderley Street, Cape Town, 1959
Identifier: islandora:17158

Title: Liesbeek River, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Liesbeek River (South Africa), Water, Trees, Urban areas, Development, Mountains
Description: Liesbeek River with Devil's Peak in the background, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16574

Title: Aerial view, Cape Town City
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Urban areas, Land, Urban development, Infrastructure
Description: A mosaic of concrete and glass formed by modern buildings in the central business district of Cape Town. This aerial view of the city was taken form the foot of the Heerengracht looking up Adderley Street towards the Public Gardens. The city centre today [seems to be] sprouting cars in beds of tar. ...must plan to remove the traffic circle on the Heerengracht, says the City Engineer. And he asks: Is it the best civic layout?'
Identifier: islandora:15115

Title: Flats at Elsies River, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Elsies River (South Africa), Apartheid, Urban development
Description: Recently completed flats in Elsies River.
Identifier: islandora:18114

Title: Wale Street Police Station before demolition, Cape Town, 1983
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Architecture, Historic buildings, Demolition, Urban development
Description: An old landmark goes: the Old Dutch building in Wale Street known as "the old Wale Street Police Station", which is to make room for the new Provincial Administration offices and which is the subject of a query by REX (Leeuwendal-crescent), is one of the finest examples of the old "dark kamer" (roof chamber) type of old Dutch colonial architecture. One of the last, if not the last, of these fine buildings is the Martin Melck House in Strand-street. The "dark kamer" was a sort of domestic observation room from which the household could watch the arrival and departure of ships in Table Bay. The old Wale-street building was built in its present form in the later years of the eighteenth century. It was the early home of the Brand family, and in it Mayor G. B. van Zyl, M.P. for Sea Point, spent his early boyhood. The building was originally ornamented by one of the best of the pediments which Anton Anreith, the famous sculptor of that time, left as a heritage for posterity. The pediment, since lost, was of a martial design, with grapeshot and cannon-balls forming the motif of the design.. After many years as a police station the old building served for some time as a day nursery for working mothers.
Identifier: islandora:17186

Title: The Haven, Cape Town
Subject: Homeless persons--South Africa, Urban poor--South Africa, Shelters for the homeless--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: Blood drips down the back of a man spending the night at The Haven Night Shelter.
Identifier: islandora:5736

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