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Tower of Double Drift

Kaffir fare at Fort Wiltshire (sic)

  • Subjects: Fort Willshire -- Alice (South Africa) -- Pictorial works
  • Type: Image
  • Identifier: vital:14116 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018040 , MS 10 542 , CD 55
  • Description: Fort Willshire was built by the Royal Engineers under Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Willshire of the 38th Regiment, on the orders of Lord Charles Somerset, in 1819. , From 1824 – 1830 weekly trade fairs were held at the Fort, where licensed British Settlers could trade in ivory, hides etc with Xhosa. At first cattle could not be traded, and trade in fire-arms and liquor was forbidden.
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Bushman & European skeletons

  • Type: Image
  • Identifier: vital:14160 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018084 , MS 10 542 , CD 55
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Kaffir Drift Fort ruins (near view)

  • Subjects: Kaffir Drift -- Eastern Cape (South Africa) -- Pictorial works
  • Type: Image
  • Identifier: vital:14104 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018028 , MS 10 542 , CD 55
  • Description: One of the first in a series of military forts built on the western side of the Great Fish River, between 1813 and 1819, it guarded a drift which was known as the ‘gateway to Kaffraria’.
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Governor Cornelis Jacobus van de Graaff, 1734-1812, and his wife Reinet

  • Subjects: Van der Graaff, Cornelis Jacobus -- Portraits , Van der Graaff, Hester Cornelia Rynet -- Portraits
  • Type: Image
  • Identifier: vital:13973 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017493 , CD 55 , MS 10 542 , PIC/M 4387 , PIC/SL 4804
  • Description: Head and shoulders portraits of Governor Cornelis Jacobus van der Graaf and his wife Reinet, from the picture in the Town House, Graaff Reinet , Van de Graaff was Governor of the Cape from 1785 -1791. Photograph of painting in the Town Hall, Graaff-Reinet with the following inscription: Cornelis Jacobus v.d. Graaf - Reinett v.d. Graaf (Governor Cape Colony) 1791 [the correct spelling is van de Graaff].
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Post Office Stone used at Cape Town

Village of Clumber

Port Elizabeth landing place, 1840

- Piers, H.W. (painter)

Ox waggon crossing drift

  • Type: Image
  • Identifier: vital:14201 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018125 , MS 10 542 , CD 55
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Ruins of walls around Fort Armstrong

  • Subjects: Fort Armstrong -- Balfour -- Pictorial works
  • Type: Image
  • Identifier: vital:14084 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018008 , MS 10 542 , CD 55
  • Description: Fort Armstrong (originally known as Camp Adelaide) was built in 1836 to protect the Kat River Settlement. After suffering capture and bombardment in the 8th Frontier war (1851), it was never used again.
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Durban harbour

Port Frances (Port Alfred) looking towards old custom house

Botha's Post

Fort Frederick old house

College House

  • Subjects: Rhodes University College -- Buildings -- Photographs
  • Type: Image
  • Identifier: vital:14184 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018108 , MS 10 542 , CD 55
  • Description: College House, completed and in use by 1914, was the first Men’s Residence at Rhodes University.
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Sir Henry George Wakelyn Smith

  • Subjects: Smith, Harry George Wakelyn, Sir, 1788-1860
  • Type: Image
  • Identifier: vital:14140 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018064 , MS 10 542 , CD 55
  • Description: Sir Harry Smith was Governor of the Province of Queen Adelaide from 1835-1840, and Governor of the Cape Colony from 1847-1852.
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Waterloo Bay near Mouth of Fish River

Port Elizabeth from the Donkin Reserve, 1840

- Piers, H.W. (painter)

Botha's Post Fort (entrance)

Young Zulu men

  • Type: Image
  • Identifier: vital:14197 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018121 , MS 10 542 , CD 55
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