C.J. Skead Photograph Collection
Item set
- Title
- C.J. Skead Photograph Collection
- Creator
- Skead, C. J. (Cuthbert John)
- Description
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The Jack (Cuthbert John) Skead Collection comprises a substantial body of photographic material that documents the natural environments, vegetation types, and ecological habitats of the Eastern Cape and the wider southern African region. The photographs—taken over several decades—capture landscapes, plant communities, wetlands, forests, grasslands, and other habitat formations that were central to Skead’s extensive research interests. Many images also document environmental change, land use patterns, and field sites associated with his ornithological and botanical studies.
The collection provides a valuable visual record for researchers working in the fields of environmental history, ecology, biogeography, conservation, and Eastern Cape natural heritage. The photographs complement Skead’s published and unpublished work held at Cory Library, including field notes, correspondence, and research manuscripts. - Language
- English
- Provenance
- Materials received from the Skead Family.
- Type
- Collection
- Genre
- Photographs
- Subject
- South Africa--Addo Elephant National Park
- Addo Elephant National Park (South Africa)
- Natual history -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Vegetation -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Habitats -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Ecology -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Landscape photography -- South Africa
- Photograph collections
- Environmental change -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Biogeography -- South Africa
- Eastern Cape (South Africa) -- Photographs
- Albany District (South Africa) -- Photographs
- Skead, C. J. (Cuthbert John), 1912–2006
Items
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Looking down at Enon Mission in valley. -
Where the Rev. C.I. La Trobe of the English Moravian Mission for the Khoekoe in 1816. -
Where the Rev. C.I. La Trobe of the English Moravian Mission for the Khoekoe in 1816. -
Where the Rev. C.I. La Trobe of the English Moravian Mission for the Khoekoe in 1816. -
Where the Rev. C.I. La Trobe of the English Moravian Mission for the Khoekoe in 1816. -
Suurberge in background. -
Western extension of Van Stadensdorp which faces south towards the Humansdorp coast. Thornhill to left of picture. -
Now covered in alien trees towards the Van Staden's berg from the slopes leading to the Karoo to the south. -
Galgenbosch farm (Thornhill) would have been in the middle distance on extreme left of photo under the left-most hillock on the horizon. Van Stadensberg to the right. -
The regular campsite of early travellers. Witteklip sector of Van Stadensberg in background. Foreground strip is grassy patch recently mown. Area now overrun with alien pines, wattles & gums. -
Spreen nearby trees. -
Spreen nearby trees. -
Gembos Hotel. -
Far left behind smoke - Vergaderingskop at Hankey, Gamtoos Valley. Far right - Lipse Kop. -
Far left behind smoke out of picture - Vergaderingskop at Hankey, Gamtoos Valley. Far right - Lipse Kop. Origion of the name Lip unknown. -
View Looking south from Hankeytown to southern escarpment of the Gamtoos River with river at base. -
River course at base. -
Tidal ebb-and-flow not far down river. -
Grove of about 20 Falcate Yellowwoods Afrocarpus falcatus of which at least 50 such trees grew at the picnic place. -
Grove of about 20 Falcate Yellowwoods Afrocarpus falcatus of which at least 50 such trees grew at the picnic place. -
Group of about 50 Afrocarpus falcatus trees at picnic place, cleared of surrounding river bush. -
Klein River, 2 km north of Hankey -
Klein River, 2 km north of Hankey -
Large Afrocarpus falcatus tree cleared of surrounding bush with dense valley bush slopes in the background. Peggy Skead, Pieter Coetzee & Willaim Massyn on bridge. -
At picnic place, looking through two large-boled yellowwoods to a group of 8 in the background, members of a tally of about 50 yellowwoods there.