Janus: Photographs of Cape Province and of African types

RCS contains:
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Y3057C	Photographs of Bushmen, Herero and Ovambo
Y3058A	Redwood Natal [i.e. Province of KwaZulu-Natal] and Zululand Album. 1879-80
Y3059C	Illustration of Diamond Industry from 'Mining the ground' to 'Diamonds classified for shipment'
Y3059L	Kimberley Diamond Diggings
Y3059V	Views in Port Elizabeth
Y3059Y	Photographs of Cape Province and of African types
Y305A	Views in South Africa and Mozambique, circa 1875-80
Y305B	Photographic Scenery of South Africa, [S.l.]: S. Alexander, 1880
Y305C	South Africa Illustrated by a series of one hundred and four permanent photographs, Port Elizabeth : R Harris, 1888
Y305D	South and East Africa, 1880s
Y305E	South Africa, circa 1925
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Photographs of Cape Province and of African types

Title	Photographs of Cape Province and of African types
Reference	GBR/0115/Y3059Y
Creator	Unknown
Covering Dates	1920–1930 (Undated: probably 1920s/1930s.)
Extent and Medium	35 images in 1 file; The album sheets have been removed from a water-damaged cover. The photographs themselves are in good condition.
Repository	Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library

Content and context

Photographer unknown.

A collection of high quality photographs, measuring 210 x 160 mm, mounted on black album sheets. They are uncaptioned but most have been identified from books on the Cape and on South African architecture; 25-31 are almost certainly Zulus; the remainder are less clearly identified. Photographer unknown.

Access and Use

Please cite as Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library, Photographs of Cape Province and of African types, Y3059Y

Further information

Indexed

This collection level description was entered by KS using information from the original typescript catalogue.

Index Terms

Africa

South Africa

RCS/Y3059Y contains:

[The 'Lion Gates' entrance to the University of Cape Town]. Entrance to the grounds, leading to the Hiddingh Hall Library building.

[Marine Drive rounding Chapman's Peak, Cape Peninsula].

[Distant view of the University of Cape Town]. On the slopes of Table Mountain and Devil's Peak.

[Tree lined avenue, possibly Constantia Vale].

[Coastal view, Cape Peninsula].

[Parliament Building, Cape Town].

[Part of Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens on Table Mountain slopes].

[G.F. Watts' statue 'Physical Energy' at the Rhodes Memorial, Cape Town]. Designed by Sir Herbert Baker and completed in 1908, it stands on the slopes of Table Mountain.

[Groote Schuur, once Cecil Rhodes' home]. Now the residence of South Africa's prime ministers.

[Welgelegen, on the Groote Schuur estate].

[Main entrance to Groote Schuur].

[Cape Dutch farmstead (?)].

[Groot Constantia, Cape Town]. Dating back to the late 17th century, the house was gutted by fire in 1925 and subsequently completely restored.

[Cape Dutch house].

[Groot Constantia].

[Marine Drive, Lake Peninsula].

[Rhône, an 18th century farm homestead in Great Drakenstein district, restored by Herbert Baker].

[Cape Dutch façade (?)].

[Morgenster, Stellenbosch district, built 1786].

[Original building of the South African College]. (1840; later the University of Cape Town). Housed the earliest library collections of the college.

[Groot Constantia].

[Groote Schuur, gardens and house].

[Distant view of Cape Town backed by Table Mountain].

[Zulus]. Two men with small ceremonial shields.

[Zulus]. Group outside a kraal.

[Zulus]. Man and two women.

[Zulus]. Group of four women with jars on their heads.

[Zulus]. Old woman and child.

[Woman, with child, washing clothes by a stream].

[Small boy crying].

[Group of four small boys].

[Group of children being taught by an African woman in European clothes]. The woman is using a blackboard (outdoors).