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Title: Africa
Subject: Africa -- Maps.
Description: Scale in geographical and English miles., Relief is shown by hachures and the deserts by shading., Title on small plaque bottom left., Detailed map of Africa showing "Cape Colony with Twee F., Geneadendal, Zwellendam, George, Bathurst and Graaff Reynet". See entry in R.V. Tooley, Collectors’ guide to maps of the African continent and Southern Africa (London: Carta Press, 1969), p. 14., Published in Atlas of modern geography .... for the use of schools; by Aaron Arrowsmith, Hydrographer to the King (London: A. & S. Arrowsmith).
Identifier: islandora:19728

Title: Calabar and Bonny Rivers. From an Original Survey by Capt. William Newton, Late of the Port of Bristol, communicated by Mr Pocock
Subject: Western Africa
Description: Guide to the west coast estuaries." Numerous soundings, bars and breakers are stated. The interior indicates places such as, Rough Corner, Yam Town and an English burial-place. Title across the top: Western Coast of Africa. Illustrative Chart 1., London. Cadell & Davies
Identifier: islandora:25290

Title: Southern coast of Africa
Subject: Southern Africa
Description: Part of a series of four double-paged linen backed coastal map. Inset: Table Bay and False Bay., London. Cadell & Davies
Identifier: islandora:25289

Title: Coast of Africa from Cabo Formosa to the Cabo de Boa Esperaca
Subject: Western Africa
Description: Inset: Cabo de Santa Catherina and St. Elena Bay (scale in one league); Prime meridian through Greenwich. Top right: Chart 3., London. Cadell & Davies
Identifier: islandora:25288

Title: Coast of Africa from the Straits of Gilbraltar to Cabo Verde
Subject: Western Africa
Description: Part of a series of four double-page coastal maps, (see NOR 227, NOR 0329, NOR 0330, NOR 0331). Coastline contains soundings; Prime meridian through Greenwich. Top right: Chart 1., London. Cadell & Davies
Identifier: islandora:25286

Title: Africa
Subject: Africa
Description: Inset: Chart of Sierra Leona and Sherbro Rivers., London. Wilkes
Identifier: islandora:25506

Title: Coast of Africa from Cabo Verde to Cabo Formosa
Subject: Western Africa
Description: Insets: Kingdom of Kayor (scale of maine leagues) and Coastline from Rio Nuno to Illia dos Idolos (with a scale of marine leagues); Prime meridian through Greenwich. Top right: Chart 2., London. Cadell & Davies
Identifier: islandora:25287

Title: A Map of Upper Egypt ... Desaix ... Expedition of Bonaparte ... Citizen Denon
Subject: Africa - Egypt
Description: Pl LXII., London. Longman et al.
Identifier: islandora:25680

Title: Driver inspects the damage done to his bus, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Vandalism
Description: The windows of at least two buses were shattered by stones during peak hour in Nyanga and Guguletu last night. Driver Mr Samuel Wiliams, peers through the broken windscreens of his bus.
Identifier: islandora:16193

Title: Southern Africa
Subject: Southern Africa
Description: An American edition was issued by Inskeep and Bradford in 1815 (see NOR 0186a)., London. Cadell and Davies, Strand, and Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme
Identifier: islandora:25739

Title: Africa
Subject: Africa
Description: Much of the geography proves to be inaccurate due to the fact it was based on antiquarian maps. "Large tracts of the interior of Africa are marked unknown". Across the top: Pinkerton's Modern Atlas., Philadelphia. Dobson, Thomas, 1751-1823
Identifier: islandora:25741

Title: Southern Africa
Subject: Southern Africa
Description: A British edition was issued by Cadell and Davies, Strand, and Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme in 1809 (see NOR 0186) . Title across top: Pinkerton's Modern Atlas., Philadelphia. Inskeep and Bradford
Identifier: islandora:25767

Title: Flower sellers, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Street vendors, Plants, Informal sector (Economics), Flower vending
Description: Mrs Gazeba Jacobs, who has sold flowers in or near the City centre for 60 years, was able to produce heer permit to sell proteas when Nature Conservation Officer Mr John Samuels (left) and trainee inspector Mr Peter Walker visited the Adderley Street flower arcade.
Identifier: islandora:15050

Title: Flower sellers, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Street vendors, Plants, Informal sector (Economics), Flower vending
Description: Mrs Gazeba Jacobs, who has sold flowers in or near the City centre for 60 years, was able to produce heer permit to sell proteas when Nature Conservation Officer Mr John Samuels (left) and trainee inspector Mr Peter Walker visited the Adderley Street flower arcade.
Identifier: islandora:14649

Title: Driver inspects his smashed windscreen, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Vandalism, Motorcars
Description: Mr Arthur Samuel Vlotman, driver of a hydraulic refuse truck, peers through his smashed windscreen. He had dropped workers at their homes in Guguletu yesterday when he was stoned by a large crowd of youths along NY1. Nobody was hurt.
Identifier: islandora:16291

Title: Couple at jewellers choosing a wedding ring, Cape Town
Subject: Wedding rings, Newlyweds, ,
Description: It is never too late to marry and this is exactly what Mr Peter Samuel, 62, and Miss Anna Pieterson, 64, have decided to do after a friendship which began "long ago". Yesterday they were at a jewellers choosing the ring which Mr Samual will present to the love of his life when they wed at their old age home in Woodstock today. And what were their feelings before the great event? "It's love, it's love," beamed Miss Pieterson. "It's nerves, nerves," said her husband-to-be.
Identifier: islandora:15222

Title: Funeral procession of an ANC member, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Law enforcement, Grief
Description: Police stopped the funeral procession of alleged African National Congress (ANC) member Mr Samuel Mjobo on the outskirts of Mbekweni to search the hearse for flags. Mr Mjobo, killed with six other men in a shootout with police in Gugulethu on March 3, was buried in Mbekweni, near Paarl, yesterday. Mr Tian van der Merwe, Progressive Federal Party MP for Green Point, who attended the funeral, criticised the police action which held up the procession of more than 100 cars and buses.
Identifier: islandora:16235

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