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Title: Home-made toys in the Malay Quarter, Cape Town, 1960s
Subject: Bo-Kaap (Cape Town, South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Children, Recreation, Historic districts
Description: Child pulling a home-made trolley in the Malay Quarter, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17233

Title: Conophytum meyeri N.E.Br.
Subject: South Africa--Northern Cape, Province of--Little Namaqualand, Aizoaceae--South Africa--Northern Cape--Pictorial works, Botany--South Africa--Northern Cape--Pictorial works, Vygie
Description: Botanical illustration - coloured - Conophytum meyeri N.E.Br. Dissected drawing of flower included. Stellenbosch University Gardens 8912. Drawn from a collection made at/near Sultanspoort, Kommaggas [Komaggas], Sandberge. Length of petal 7cm; Width of petal 1.5mm; Stamens 7mm; Across disc 2mm; Part of the illustration was added 12 February 1937.
Identifier: islandora:23286

Title: Gabebah Abrahams explores an early waterway, Cape Town
Subject: Archaeology, Excavation sites (Archaeology), Water-pipes--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: Miss Gabebah Abrahams delving into one of Cape Town's earliest man-made waterways.
Identifier: islandora:14695

Title: Black Sash demonstrates at St. Mary's Cathedral, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Women political activists, Politics, Crime
Description: Nope to the rope: Campaigner Mr Reggie September and Black Sash members demonstrate at St Mary's Cathedral.
Identifier: islandora:17851

Title: Policemen clear rocks and other debris off a road, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Barricades (Military science), Demonstrations, Law enforcement
Description: Riot police clear a crude road block in Duinefontein Road, near Manenberg, yesterday, after a group African youths had thrown concrete blocks and rocks into the road.
Identifier: islandora:16262

Title: Interior of a house
Subject: Pondo (African people), Ethnology--South Africa--Pondoland, Eastern Cape (South Africa)--Rural conditions, Pondo (African people)--Dwellings, Interior decoration--South Africa--Pondoland
Description: Interior of what is probably a round square house in Pondoland. Notice the grinding stone on the bottom left and the picture on the wall.
Identifier: islandora:5428

Title: Image from rock painting site. Site of Huisrivierpass, near Calitzdorp, South Africa.
Subject: Rock paintings--South Africa--Western Cape., , ,
Description: Rock painting of a human figure in white
Identifier: islandora:21647

Title: Antimima solida (L.Bolus) H.E.K.Hartmann
Subject: South Africa--Northern Cape, Province of--Little Namaqualand, Aizoaceae--South Africa--Northern Cape--Pictorial works, Botany--South Africa--Northern Cape--Pictorial works, Vygie
Description: Botanical illustration - coloured - Antimima solida. Drawings of fruit and leaves included. From a collection made between Bitterfontein and Garies by Leighton and Lewis (50, National Botanical Garden 2122/32).
Identifier: islandora:22795

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: Protesters against the development of District Six, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Housing, Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: Picket line ... Protestors line the owner of Lower Burg and Riebeeck streets yesterday during a legal lunch-time protest against the development of District Six. The protesters later confronted Iico management, one of the companies proposing to build houses in the district.
Identifier: islandora:17762

Title: Orange River irrigation schemes : plan to illustrate the reports of inspection made by A. S. le Roex and H. C. Litchfield of the Public Works Department, October, 1896
Subject: Irrigation--South Africa--Northern Cape--Maps, Orange River--Maps,
Description: A map showing Government lands, farms and irrigable lands along the Orange River from the border with German territory, along the border with Bechuanaland and the Division of Hay above the river, Kenhardt, Prieska and Hope Town below the river, with other rivers. Some colour. Scale 1 2/8 inch to 10 miles.
Identifier: islandora:25101

Title: Of darkness and the heart - Four poems of Fiona Zerbst (1. Writing at Night)
Subject: Hofmeyr, Hendrik. Of darkness and the heart, Zerbst, Fiona--Musical settings., Songs (High voice) with piano., String quartets (Violins (2) , violas, cello), Concerts--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: Hendrik Hofmeyr: Of darkness and the heart, Baxter Concert Hall, Cape Town, South Africa
Identifier: islandora:30197

Title: Chants d'Auvergne (2. The cuckoo)
Subject: Canteloube, Joseph, 1879-1957. Chants d'Auvergne., Songs (High voice) with instrumental ensemble., Folk songs, French France Auvergne., Concerts--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: UCT Symphony Orchestra, Baxter Concert Hall, Cape Town, South Africa
Identifier: islandora:28594

Title: Conophytum bilobum (Marloth) N.E.Br. subsp. bilobum var. bilobum
Subject: South Africa--Northern Cape, Province of--Little Namaqualand, Aizoaceae--South Africa--Northern Cape--Pictorial works, Botany--South Africa--Northern Cape--Pictorial works, Vygie
Description: Botanical illustration - coloured - Conophytum bilobum (Marloth) N.E.Br. subsp. bilobum var. bilobum. Plate 20, Mesemb. Notes, Part 3, H.M.L. Bolus 1936-58, or III, in later edition. G. Drawn from a collection made along the road between Anniesfontein [Annisfontein] and Helskloof [Richtersveld] by P. van Heerden. [Refer to Bolus Herbarium 130920 for pencil sketch of dissected drawing of flower].
Identifier: islandora:23198

Title: Prosecution, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Youth, South African Police, Prosecution
Description: Members of the families bringing the prosecution, from left, Mrs Georgina Williams, Mr Theo Williams, Mr Martin Magmoed and Mrs Williams's sister Mrs A. Du Toit.
Identifier: islandora:17599

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: Erepsia sp.
Subject: South Africa--Western Cape, Province of the--Cape Town, Aizoaceae--South Africa--Western Cape, Botany--South Africa--Western Cape--Pictorial works, Vygie
Description: Botanical illustration - coloured - Erepsia sp. Drawn from a collection made at Glencairn [Simon's Town District], 1921.
Identifier: islandora:23733

Title: March in support of detainees, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political prisoners, Apartheid, Demonstrations
Description: March in support of detainees, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17941

Title: Cheiridopsis denticulata (Haw.) N.E.Br.
Subject: South Africa--Northern Cape, Province of, Aizoaceae--South Africa--Northern Cape--Pictorial works, Botany--South Africa--Northern Cape--Pictorial works, Vygie
Description: Botanical illustration - pencil sketch - Cheiridopsis denticulata. Drawing was made from partly dried specimens and partly from those which flowered in Mr N.S. Pillan's garden [Annals of the S.A.Museum, Vol 9. (1913)]. [Species endemic to South Africa; Northern Cape Province distribution].
Identifier: islandora:23067

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

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