The old and the new at Seymour
- Authors: Daily Dispatch (East London, South Africa)
- Date: 1960-07-21
- Subjects: Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs , Seymour (South Africa) -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: text , clippings , ephemera
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/65562 , vital:28813
- Description: Newspaper article: "The old and the new at Seymour. This oak tree is believed to have been planted in 1853 on the founding of the town. Next to it stand newly planted poles to carry ESCOM electric power to the inhabitants. Gangs of construction workers are erecting the power lines and the first line in the town has about been completed. Private contractors are wiring dwellings. To start with there will be more than 20 consumers who will be connected up to the distribution lines. Distribution will be undertaken by ESCOM.”
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Old tree 'chopped' by age and insects
- Authors: Matthews, Ray
- Date: 1969-11-24
- Subjects: Acacia karroo -- South Africa -- Pietermaritzburg , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: text , clippings , ephemera
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/71921 , vital:29976
- Description: Newspaper article: "Old tree chopped by age and insects. Age and insects have put and end to one of Maritzburg's national monuments. An acacia mimosa tree that stood in the centre lawn of the Parkside home of the Administrator of Natal since about 1800, has been chopped down for safety reasons. The stately old tree was National Monument and the plaque on the stump reads: Monuments Commission. Around this tree, Commandant A. W. J. Pretorius, member of the Volksraad and the Burgers of the Republic Natalia decided by a majority on July 5, 1842, to accept British rule.”
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Forest recession
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1961-06
- Subjects: Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs , Deforestation -- South Africa , Tree ferns -- South Africa -- Photographs , Aloe arborescens -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/65527 , vital:28806
- Description: Caption "TW 10. Tree ferns (left) with Aloe arborescens in back to left, and natural forest at back. Ferns and aloes side by side where forest ought to be! June 1961.”
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Salix mucronata - Cape willow
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1960-07-10
- Subjects: Salix mucronata- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/118327 , vital:34621
- Description: Caption "Cape Willows in winter foliage. Line drift. Keiskamma River. 10-07-1960.”
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Ptaeroxylon obliquum - Sneezewood
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Ptaeroxylon obliquum -- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , notes
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/120321 , vital:34878
- Description: Caption "C. J. Skead's notes. Ptaeroxylon obliquum. 1958."
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Forest recession - Nqantos area, Upper Kubusie
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Nqantosi area, Upper Kubusie, Stutterheim (South Africa) -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs , Deforestation -- South Africa -- Stutterheim -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/65750 , vital:28834
- Description: Caption "TW 2. Black Ironwood, left foreground left standing by receding forest at Nqantos area, Upper Kubusie, Stutterheim. 1959.”
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Thorn tree canopy - King Williams Town
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Acacia karroo -- South Africa -- King William's Town -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/72057 , vital:29992
- Description: Caption "Thorntree canopy. King Wms Town. 1959.”
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Pinus radiata - Pinus insignis - Pine
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 19uu
- Subjects: Pinus radiata -- Pinus insignis -- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/120962 , vital:34958
- Description: Caption "Arum in the forest stream."
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Yellowwood
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1959-10
- Subjects: Podocarpus falcatus -- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/117286 , vital:34498
- Description: Caption "Upper bole. Hogsback. Oct. 1959.”
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Milkwood
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1963-07-10
- Subjects: Sideroxylon inerme - South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , clippings
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/117954 , vital:34580
- Description: Caption "This battered milkwood, once much bigger, is Woodstock's Treaty Tree, under which, legend says, the 1806 armistice was signed between the British and the Dutch garrison. It is now to be protected by Cape Town municipality. E. P. Herald. 10-07-1963”
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Acacia Karoo - King Williams Town
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1958-08
- Subjects: Acacia karroo -- South Africa -- King William's Town -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/72048 , vital:29991
- Description: Caption "Silhouette of Acacia Karoo on old golf course King Williams Town. Aug. 1958.”
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Pinus radiata - Pinus insignis - Pine
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 19uu
- Subjects: Pinus radiata -- Pinus insignis -- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/120992 , vital:34961
- Description: Caption "Hogsback. Outside the Hydro."
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Erythrina caffra
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1961-09-05
- Subjects: Erythrina caffra - South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/118962 , vital:34690
- Description: Caption "Close up of Kaffirbooms around a small waterhole in native territory Peddie, s. of Woodlands. 05-09-1961.”
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Erythrina caffra
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 19uu
- Subjects: Erythrina caffra -- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , notes
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/121977 , vital:35197
- Description: Caption "Odd notes: Erythrina caffra."
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King Williams Town - Forest
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1959-05-31
- Subjects: Forest - South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/118526 , vital:34643
- Description: Caption "From the road up Evelyn valley to Murray's krans. 31-05-1959.”
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Umtiza
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1960-02
- Subjects: Umtiza listeriana - South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/118193 , vital:34606
- Description: Caption "Umtiza in flower in Fort Grey forest reserve, Buffalo Pass, East London. Feb. 1960.”
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Erythrina caffra
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1959-08-20
- Subjects: Erythrina caffra - South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/118811 , vital:34671
- Description: Caption "St Andrews Presbyterian Church. King Williams Town. This tree was a fair size in 1883 when the church's foundation stone was laid. 20-08-1959.”
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Halleria lucida - Evergreen tree
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1963-05
- Subjects: Halleria lucida -- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/120847 , vital:34944
- Description: Caption "Trumpet-shaped florets of Halleria lucida slit open by short-billed nector-feeding birds. May 1963. Kei Road, King Wms Town."
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Podocarpus falcatus - Yellowwood
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1959-1964
- Subjects: Podocarpus falcatus -- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , notes
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/120521 , vital:34902
- Description: Caption "CJ Skead's notes. Podocarpus falcatus and latifolius - yellowwood."
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Erythrina caffra - kaffirboom
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1959.08.20
- Subjects: Erythrina caffra- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/119780 , vital:34782
- Description: Caption "Full flower of Kaffirboom. 20-08-1959. Corner of Cambridge Rd. and Queen St. King Williams Town. "
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