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Title: Drosanthemum oculatum L.Bolus
Subject: South Africa--Western Cape, Province of the, Aizoaceae--South Africa--Western Cape, Botany--South Africa--Western Cape--Pictorial works, Vygie
Description: Botanical illustration - coloured - Drosanthemum oculatum L.Bolus. Dissected drawing of flower included. Drawn from a collection made at Packhuis Pass [Pakhuispas, Clanwillliam District] by H.M.L. Bolus (sub-National Botanical Garden 1514/33), 1933.
Identifier: islandora:23679

Title: Malan's Cabinet, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Cabinet ministers, National Party (South Africa), Governments
Description: Malan's Cabinet
Identifier: islandora:16899

Title: Lampranthus microstigma (L.Bolus) N.E.Br.
Subject: South Africa--Western Cape, Province of the, Aizoaceae--South Africa--Western Cape, Botany--South Africa--Western Cape--Pictorial works, Vygie
Description: Botanical illustration - coloured - Lampranthus microstigma (L.Bolus ) N.E.Br. Dissected drawing of flower included. Drawn from a collection made between Hopefield and Langebaan [Hopefield District] by S.W. Lavis (sub-National Botanical Garden 3032/32), 19 October 1932.
Identifier: islandora:23971

Title: Police wearing gas masks fire teargas, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Law enforcement, Weapons, Demonstrations
Description: Police wearing gas masks and armed with rifles used for firing teargas canisters stand in Bonteheuwel where stoning took place yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:16195

Title: Equestrian feats at Cape Show, Cape Town
Subject: Goodwood (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Agricultural show, Agriculture, Gymkhanas (Horsemanship), Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Equestrian Feats such as this - one rider balanced on three galloping horses - have long been the arena attractions of the Cape Show at Goodwood and its predecessor, the Rosebank Show.
Identifier: islandora:16986

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: Trunk found in terrorist apartment, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Trials, Weapons
Description: Weapons exhibit: Constable Karen Dalhouzie looks into the trunk containing AK-47 rifles and ammunition, limpet mines, hand grenades and other arms and ammunition, allegedly found in the Wynberg flat of terrorism accused Ms Jenny Schreiner. It is one of the more than 400 exhibits before court in the Yengeni trial which began earlier this year.
Identifier: islandora:17614

Title: Rugaya Jeram, 1996
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa)--Social conditions, Portraits, Bathrooms--South Africa, Women--South Africa,
Description: Rugaya Jeram, October 1996.
Identifier: islandora:12666

Title: Emilia Kuvangu Muhinda, San artist
Subject: Bushman, San, South Africa, indigenous, identity, ritual, land rights, art, crafts, army, dispossession, elderly woman, painting, portrait, Art, San--South Africa--Northern Cape, Artists--South Africa--Northern Cape, Painters--South Africa--Northern Cape, San (African people)--South Africa--Northern Cape, Northern Cape (South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:12456

Title: Van Rhynsdorp
Subject: South African War, 1899-1902 -- Maps., Vanrhynsdorp Region (South Africa) -- Maps., Western Cape (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: This map forms part of the Imperial map of the Cape Colony., The map shows grand trunk roads, trunk roads, branch roads, farm roads, rivers, hills, pans, railways, telegraph lines, homesteads, farm names, farm boundaries and divisional boundaries in the Van Rhynsdorp area., Relief shown by hachures., The Imperial map of the Cape Colony was "compiled by the Field Intelligence Division or Department of the British Army in Cape Town during the second Anglo-Boer War. ... [P.H. du P.] Casgrain ... superintended its production ..." (Board, C. "Certainly better than nothing at all" : a re-examination of the Imperial map of South Africa 1899-1902. Proceedings of the 21st International Cartographic Conference, Durban, 2003. Available online: http://icaci.org/files/documents/ICC_proceedings/ICC2003/Papers/109.pdf (accessed 5 Sept. 2012))., "This map is not to be considered as absolutely accurate"., Projection not given., Printed in black and red., Map folds into an outer cover., Map 702 is printed on linen. Copy 701 is mounted on linen.
Identifier: islandora:24867

Title: Lampranthus godmaniae (L.Bolus) L.Bolus
Subject: South Africa--Western Cape, Province of the, Aizoaceae--South Africa--Western Cape, Botany--South Africa--Western Cape--Pictorial works, Vygie
Description: Botanical illustration - coloured - Lampranthus godmaniae (L.Bolus ) L.Bolus. Dissected drawing of flower included. Drawn from a collection made between Pakhuis & Doornbosch, [Clanwilliam district].Very common.
Identifier: islandora:23996

Title: Lighthouse at Cape Point, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Point (Cape of Good Hope, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Lighthouses, Navigation, Shipping
Description: Lamp: The 1 400 watt main lamp shines a beam about 50km out to sea.
Identifier: islandora:17006

Title: Family and friends of the accused sing freedom songs outside the Supreme Court, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, African National Congress, Political prisoners, Apartheid, Political activists
Description: African National Congress (ANC) trial. Family and friends of the 15 accused sing freedom songs as they walk to the station from the Supreme Court building yesterday afternoon.
Identifier: islandora:15936

Title: Queenstown
Subject: South African War, 1899-1902 -- Maps., Queenstown Region (South Africa) -- Maps., Eastern Cape (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: This map forms part of the Imperial map of the Cape Colony., The map shows grand trunk roads, trunk roads, branch roads, farm roads, rivers, hills, pans, railways, telegraph lines, homesteads, farm names, farm boundaries and divisional boundaries in the Queenstown area., Relief shown by hachures., The Imperial map of the Cape Colony was "compiled by the Field Intelligence Division or Department of the British Army in Cape Town during the second Anglo-Boer War. ... [P.H. du P.] Casgrain ... superintended its production ..." (Board, C. "Certainly better than nothing at all" : a re-examination of the Imperial map of South Africa 1899-1902. Proceedings of the 21st International Cartographic Conference, Durban, 2003. Available online: http://icaci.org/files/documents/ICC_proceedings/ICC2003/Papers/109.pdf (accessed 5 Sept. 2012))., "This map is not to be considered as absolutely accurate.", Projection not given., Printed in black and red., Map folds into an outer cover., The map is mounted on linen.
Identifier: islandora:24854

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: The plans record 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., Sheet 1 comprises the key plan indicating 9 areas of central Cape Town surveyed by Goad (scale 1:6,000. 1 in. to 500 feet). This key plan includes notes on the water supply (salt and fresh) in central Cape Town, details of personnel and equipment of the Cape Town Fire Brigade and general comments on the city's climate and buildings. Also included is a sheet comprising an index of streets, buildings and firms. The buildings are colour coded by material type., Title from key plan on sheet 1., The 11 sheets (1 index and 10 maps) are in a hardcover volume, each sheet forming 2 leaves., This volume is one of 18 Cape Town fire-insurance atlases surveyed and drawn by Charles Edward Goad and printed in 1895. The bookplate pasted on the inside of the front cover indicates this copy was intended for the Union Assurance Society.
Identifier: islandora:19825

Title: Conophytum roodiae N.E.Br. subsp. cylindratum (Schwantes) T.Smale
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 - coloured - Conophytum roodiae N.E.Br. subsp. cylindratum (Schwantes) T. Smale. Plate 18, Mesemb. Notes, Part 3, H.M.L. Bolus 1936-58, or II, in later edition. F. The plant drawn was from a collection made by H. Herre (SUG8364), 28 miles from Port Nolloth, on the road to Steinkopf.
Identifier: islandora:23196

Title: Petrol-bombed township advice during the second (1988-1990) State of Emergency
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), State of Emergency, Political persecution, Apartheid, Hostels, Migrant labour
Description: Bombed: A hostel dweller with what he believes is a piece of the petrol bomb that destroyed the advice office of the Western Cape Hostel Dwellers' Association. The room behind him is a crèche and play centre.
Identifier: islandora:15838

Title: Groot Constantia: general restoration
Subject: Wine estates, Groot Constantia (Cape Town, South Africa), Historic farms--South Africa--Cape Town, Historic farms--Conservation and restoration--South Africa--Cape Town, Wineries--South Africa--Cape Town, Landscape architecture--South Africa--Cape Town,
Description: Sections through New Sloot: Cut and Fill: hand-drawn pen and ink cross-section drawings on tracing paper, showing the earthshaping and finish levels required to form the new sloot running through the courtyard between the historic manor house and cellar buildings of the old farm werf at the historic Groot Constantia Wine Estate, Groot Constantia Road, Cape Town, South Africa., Scale 1:50 on A1. Drawing number 301/WD/05
Identifier: islandora:22459

Title: Conophytum wettsteinii (A.Berger) 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 - coloured - Conophytum wettsteinii (A.Berger) N.E.Br. Drawn from a collection made at Copperberg [Koperberg] in Namaqualand by N.S. Pillans (5763), 1926.
Identifier: islandora:23343

Title: Conophytum ectypum N.E.Br. subsp. ectypum
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 -capsule relating to the illustration - Conophytum ectypum N.E.Br. Scanned contents of capsule from a collection made by Brown (sub-National Botanical Garden 1089/27). [Refer to Bolus Herbarium 130828 for illustration of plant and to Bolus Herbarium 131032 for illustration of plant and dissected flower parts]. [No locality details are given. Plant species endemic to South Africa; Northern Cape Province distribution].
Identifier: islandora:23350

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