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Title: Le Cape de Bonne Esperance comme il a ete ci-devant
Subject: Africa - Cape of Good Hope
Description: Similar to Valentijn' s map (see NOR 0215). The mountains are numbered and named in the border. 1. Le chateau. 2. Le Petit-Fort. 3. Montagne du lion. 4. Montagne de la Table. 5. Montagne du Vent. 6. Endroit ou tous les Bataeux Viennent., Leiden. Aa, Pieter van der, 1659-1733
Identifier: islandora:25282

Title: União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola soldier opens fire on Police
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002,
Description: Television footage of a UNITA soldier opening fire on Angolan Police, 12 October 1992.The footage goes worldwide and plunges Angola is in a state of shock.
Identifier: islandora:7050

Title: Carte de l'Isle Madagascar dite autrement Madecase et de S. Laurens et aujord'hui L'Isle Dauphine avecque les costes de Cofala et du Mozambique en Afrique
Subject: Africa - Madagascar
Description: Illustrates "sea routes from the west coast of Africa to Mozambique and from Fort Dauphin on the southeast coast of Madagascar to the north, south, and to the east, to India, Surate and Malacca.", Paris. Duval, P. (Pierre), 1619-1682
Identifier: islandora:25327

Title: Carte de l'ile de Madagascar contenant sa description & diverses particularitez curieuses de ses habitans tant blancs que negres
Subject: Madagascar -- Maps -- Early works to 1800., Madagascar -- Social life and customs$$y18th century.
Description: The map, showing Madagascar oriented with north to the right, is featured at the top of the page. Below the map is text (in French) describing the island of Madagascar and its people. Bordering the page are illustrations depicting life and customs in Madagascar including circumcision, funerals and executions as well as illustrating various modes of attire., Appears in Atlas historique, ou, Nouvelle introduction à l'histoire ... Amsterdam, 1705-1720. Tome VI, no. 34, p. 142.
Identifier: islandora:19693

Title: Principales routes et pistes de L'Afrique Français
Subject: Africa, French-speaking West--Maps, , ,
Description: Map showing major roads and tracks in French West Africa along the coast, including Mali, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Ivory Coast, Gold Coast, Slave Coast and part of Nigeria, with international and colonial boundaries, railways, hotels, camp grounds, telephone and telegraph offices, wireless telegraph posts, petrol depots, chief and advanced posts of the Saharan Company. Some colour. Relief shown by hachures and form lines. Scale 1 : 2.500.000. [Coordinates estimated]
Identifier: islandora:19350

Title: Carte de l'Afrique méridionale au pays entre la ligne Cap de Bonne Espérance et l'Isle de Madagascar
Subject: Slaves -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope -- History., Farm ownership -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope -- History., Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Maps -- Early works to 1800., Africa, Southern -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: The details regarding Elizabeth, Nicolas Visscher's widow, are drawn from Gallica, Bibliothèque Nationale de France: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b7759505j.notice. See also: Atlas nouveau … by Guillaume de L'Isle (Amsterdam: Covens & Mortier, 1730); R.V. Tooley, Collectors’ guide to maps of the African continent and Southern Africa (London: Carta Press, 1969), p. 120; Norwich's maps of Africa : an illustrated and annotated carto-bibliography (Norwich, Vt. : Terra Nova Press, 1997), map 180 (note)., The inset of the Cape of Good Hope is of particular importance. It indicates the presence of slaves on Robben Island ("daar de Slaven in de Ketting loopen"). It also gives "extensive detailed and fairly accurate topographical information ... together with the names of owners of farms and plots of that period. Amongst these are de Beer, Swart Pieter, Martin de Smit, Roelof Pasman, Gerrit Kloeton, and the French Huguenot settlement. These place names add considerably to the knowledge of the history of the ... Cape of Good Hope"--Norwich's Maps of Africa, p. 203., Three insets: "Élévation du Port et Mont Table au Cap de Bonne Espérance" (5 x 11 cm); "Plan du Port et Mont Table au Cap de Bonne Espérance" (10 x 11 cm); "[Cabo de Bona Esperanca]" (13 x 23 cm)., Text primarily in French. The inset of the Cape is also in Dutch with some Portuguese notations., Restored and hinged between acid-free boards.
Identifier: islandora:19819

Title: Karte des Deutsch-Portugiesischen Grenzgebiets in Südwestafrika
Subject: Angola -- Maps., Namibia -- Maps., Mines and mineral resources -- Namibia., Mines and mineral resources -- Angola.
Description: Map of the German-Portuguese border areas in South West Africa [Namibia] showing the large mining concession companies operating in the Kaokoland area in the Kunene region (Northern Namibia) and the Companhia de Mossamedes in Portuguese West Africa [Angola]. Also shown are farms in private hands, farms held by the Companhia de Mossamedes, military posts, telegraph stations and sites of mineral deposits., Relief shown by shading, hachures and spot heights., Appears in: Mitteilungen aus den Deutschen Schutzgebieten. Band XXV, 1912, 9., "Lithog. u. Druck v. Dietrich Reimer (Ernst Vohsen) Berlin."
Identifier: islandora:19543

Title: Carte de l'Egypte sous les Pharaons
Subject: Africa - Egypt
Identifier: islandora:25492

Title: Rio de Janeiro blue
Subject: Cole, Freddy. Rio de Janeiro blue, Haeny, John. Rio de Janeiro blue, Jazz, Concerts--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: Symphonic groove, Baxter Concert Hall, Cape Town, South Africa
Identifier: islandora:28651

Title: Samba de Rollins
Subject: Menza, Don. Samba for Rollins, Big band music, Jazz, Concerts--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: UCT Big Band, Baxter Concert Hall, Cape Town, South Africa
Identifier: islandora:28824

Title: Egypte divisée en ses Douze Cassilifs ou Gouvernemens ...Tirée de Sanut
Subject: Africa - Egypt
Identifier: islandora:25547

Title: Jenny de Tolly and others talk with Red Cross relief workers, 05/09/1991
Description: Jenny de Tolly of the Black Sash, and others, talk with Red Cross relief workers, at the scene of damage caused in the townships outside Cape Town during the taxi wars in September 1991.
Identifier: islandora:6563

Title: De Rif
Subject: Elytropappus rhinocerotis--Western Cape (South Africa), Asteraceae--Western Cape (South Africa), Plants--Effect of grazing on--Western Cape (South Africa), Plants--Western Cape (South Africa), ,
Description: District: Clanwilliam, Location: Cederberg Wilderness Area, De Rif., Ecology: Overgrazed. Elytropappus rhinocerotis dominant in dwarf shrub layer.
Identifier: islandora:4627

Title: De Hoop vlei
Subject: Botany--South Africa, Plants--South Africa, ,
Description: De Hoop vlei
Identifier: islandora:10203

Title: De Mond Nature Reserve
Subject: Plants--Effect of fires on--Western Cape (South Africa), Plants--Western Cape (South Africa), Botanists--Western Cape (South Africa), ,
Description: District: Bredasdorp, Location: De Mond Nature Reserve., Ecology: One month after burning.
Identifier: islandora:4348

Title: Het Noordelykste Deel van Afrika behelzende Barbarie, Egypyte enz Als mede de geheele Middellandsche Zee ... d.Anville, MDCCLXII
Subject: Northern Africa
Description: Watermark., Amsterdam. Tirion, Isaak
Identifier: islandora:25679

Title: |Xam man taken at De Beers mines, Kimberley
Subject: San (African people)--Africa, Southern, San (African people)--Africa, Southern--Pictorial works, San (African people)--Social life and customs, Men--Africa, Southern, Hunting and gathering societies--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: This image was included in Alfred Martin Duggan Cronin's The Bantu tribes of South Africa : reproductions of photographic studies, the outcome of his major ethnographic research study of the San of Southern African.
Identifier: islandora:26410

Title: Victoria West Road - Carnarvon and Prieska - De Aar inspections
Subject: Railroads--South Africa--Northern Cape--Maps,
Description: A map of proposed extensions of the raiway line in the Northern Cape, with rivers and place names. Some colour. Scale 1 inch to 16 miles.
Identifier: islandora:25163

Title: Plan van de geproclameerde Goud Velden te Witwatersrand, Z.A.R
Subject: Africa
Description: Photocopy. "This diagram is of great historical importance, as it is believed to be the first diagram depicting the location of the village of Johannesburg on government ground, and the first diagram showing the location of Mynpachts, mining right leases on Witwatersrand gold fields ... ". Inset: Lyst van Mynpachten Toegestaan., Pretoria. Landmeter Generaal's Kantoor
Identifier: islandora:25467

Title: Congo Belge. Carte routiére officielle des territoires du Ruanda - Urundi
Subject: Roads--Rwanda--Maps, Roads--Burundi--Maps, , ,
Description: Map showing the official roads of the African territories of Ruanda and Urundi which came under Belgian control after they were seized from Germany during WWI, and main roads of local interest, secondary roads of local interest, routes for passenger transportation - of local interest, roads of general interest, private roads, railroads, distances in km's, unsurveyed roads, border of the colony, district boundaries, territory boundaries, state capitals, district capitals, capitals of territories, ferries, mines, dispensaries. Relief shown by form lines. Edition 1949. Scale 1 : 500.000.
Identifier: islandora:19295

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