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Title: Foreshore, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Urban areas, Infrastructure, Architecture, Land, Urban development, Buildings
Description: Foreshore
Identifier: islandora:15108

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: Maria with her daughter.
Identifier: islandora:5742

Title: Cape Town City
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Urban areas, Infrastructure, Architecture, Land, Development
Description: Foreshore.
Identifier: islandora:15081

Title: Black River Parkway construction, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Urban areas, Development, Transport, Building
Description: Three new road bridges straddle a section of the party-built Kromboom Parkway which is a major new link in a freeway system between the N9 and Westlake. It will be almost five years before the eight kilometre road is open to traffic. Eventually it will become a continuation of the Black River Parkway. The aerial picture shows three recently-completed bridges carrying Kromboom Road, Lansdowne Road and Racecourse Road over the freeway.
Identifier: islandora:16561

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:17073

Title: Cape Town City
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Urban areas, Infrastructure, Architecture, Land, Development
Description: Foreshore
Identifier: islandora:15083

Title: Construction on Kroomboom Parkway, Cape Town
Subject: Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Aerial views, Roads, Freeways, City planning, Urban development
Description: This picture shows construction work on the Kromboom Parkway, which will form part of a major route from the city to the False Bay coast. The parkway - a dual carrieageway - will link Black River Parkway to Prince George Drive. A R6-million section of the road has been completed and will come into use early next year [1980]. It stretches from Kromboom Road to Kenilworth Racecourse. Klipfontein Road is the foreground.
Identifier: islandora:17016

Title: Foreshore, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Urban areas, Infrastructure, Architecture, Land, Urban development, Building
Description: Foreshore
Identifier: islandora:15095

Title: Rondebosch, Cape Town
Subject: Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Urban development
Description: Cattle grazing on commonage in Rondebosch, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17475

Title: Bree Street, Cape Town, 1978
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Urban development, Historic buildings, Motorcars
Description: Building dating to 1904 in Bree Street, Cape Town, 1978
Identifier: islandora:17505

Title: The recently completed canal that contains the Liesbeek River, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Liesbeek River (South Africa), Water, Trees, Nature, Mountains, Building, Urban areas
Description: Gracefully curved concrete banks contain the Liesbeek for many miles and save hundreds of tons of earth which would otherwise be washed down to the sea in winter. Serious erosion is still taking place in the upper reaches of the river, but canalization is being steadily pushed forward. This picture, in a setting of oaks, shows work recently completed at Newlands.
Identifier: islandora:16575

Title: Foreshore, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Urban areas, Land, Urban development, Infrastructure
Description: Foreshore
Identifier: islandora:15118

Title: Demolition of the old railway station, Cape Town, 1968
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Demolition, Architecture, Urban development, City planning
Description: Down it comes: A workman, perched about 40 ft. above the ground, uses an oxy-acetylene torch to cut through one of the steel girders which supported the curved roof of the main hall of Cape Town's old railway station. A foreman on the site said yesterday that demolition of the building is expected to be completed by the end of this month.
Identifier: islandora:17401

Title: Adderley and Strand Streets intersection, Cape Town, 1930s
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Transport, Urban development, City planning, Roads
Description: Adderley Street and Strand Street intersection in the early 1930s with the old station and post office in the left background. The shot features our Leyland single decker and single deck trams used at that time on the Sea Point service. Archives.
Identifier: islandora:17356

Title: Central Cape Town, 1948
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), City planning, Urban development, Architecture, Building
Description: Cape Town's changing skyline: the changing sky-line of the centre of Cape Town is emphasised in this picture, taken yesterday from the top of the Colosseum building. The massive new business block on the old G.P.O. site in Adderley Street (seen on right) has already reached its designed height of eight stories, rising 120 feet from street level. Before final completion next year, however, this imposing city block will have two 40-feet corner towers on the roof fronting Adderley Street, making an [WORD CUT OFF] height of 160 feet from [WORD CUT OFF] to pavement. Although this building will still be dwarfed by the S. A. Mutual, whose pinnacle (seen in background) is 276 feet above the street level, and by the new Post Office (to the left), the trio of buildings already obliterate many familiar vistas when viewed from the angle of street pedestrians. The City Hall (on extreme left) appears very small by comparison. The railway station building (in foreground) will eventually disappear to provide for the Strand-street extension under the new Foreshore scheme.
Identifier: islandora:17343

Title: Aerial view of Cape Town city centre, 1968
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Architecture, City planning, Urban development, Commerce
Description: An impressive photograph of the new heart of Cape Town, by A. J. Musgrave-Newton. It shows the dynamic growth that is taking place on and near the Foreshore. The two new Mobil and Trust Bank "Towers" can be easily recognized. What is not easily apparent is that this is Cape Town. Cars crowd the open spaces like so many beans in rows.
Identifier: islandora:17089

Title: Family, Kew Town, Cape Town
Subject: Urban poor--South Africa, Families--South Africa, Forced migration--South Africa, Dwellings--Social aspects--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: A family inside their home in Kew Town, on the Cape Flats.
Identifier: islandora:5729

Title: Aerial view, Foreshore, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Cities and towns, Urban areas, Land, Urban development
Description: Aerial view of Foreshore.
Identifier: islandora:15113

Title: Apartheid-era Mayor of Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Urban development, Apartheid, Local government, City planning, Afrikaners
Description: The Mayor of Bellville, Mr W. J. Bezuidenhout, looks out over his rapidly-developing town. He visualizes it one day becoming a sprawling city with a population of about 150,000.
Identifier: islandora:16796

Title: Unfinished freeway, Cape Town, 1979
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Local government, City planning, Urban development, Environment
Description: The road to nowhere: unfinished freeway on the Foreshore, Cape Town, 1979
Identifier: islandora:17488

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