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 The photographs complement Skead’s published and unpublished work held at Cory Library, including field notes, correspondence, and research manuscripts.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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The original Rietberg over which early waggoners and some 1820 Settlers passed on way to the north, the track ascending just out of picture to the left on Boekenhoutfontein farm. -
Heavy yield of a single bush of Putterlickia pyracantha. Had been a good season. -
Type of alien Kalanchoe, K. beharensis (from Madagascar). How did this plant get here? Other singletons occur in the veld, one near Coega Kops, Port Elizabeth. William Massyn, Van Staden's Wild Flower Reserve, in picture. -
Heavy yield of a single bush of Putterlickia pyracantha. Had been a good season. -
Good show of Mesembryanthemum. -
Single plant of Zygophyllum divaricatum in full flower. A good season after good winter rains. -
Patch of Sutera microphylla in a good season after good winter rains. -
Mesembryanthemaceae, possibly Lampranthus in good flower after good winter rains. Other similar patches in the area. -
Aloe ferox at height of flower along roadside between N2 National Road and the containing fence-line. -
Fine stand of Aloe ferox between the National Road and the fence of park. -
Open grassveld with scattered bush. -
Photographing a Lampranthus plant surrounded by intrusive wattle. -
Open grassveld with scattered bush. -
Hertia (ex. Kraussii) in full flower. -
Good display of Jasminum angulare. -
Hillside of reddening foliage of Leucadendron salignum. -
Hillside of reddening foliage of Leucadendron salignum. -
Hillside of reddening foliage of Leucadendron salignum. Helen Vanderplank & William Massyn in picture. -
Roadside spread of Helichrysum anomalum. 14 Similar species See Gledhill p. 225 (Kerriekruie). -
Dense stand of Euphorbia triangularis. -
Aloe striata, one patch of many in this area. -
Kareedouw, Humansdorp. -
Kareedouw, Humansdorp. -
Kareedouw, Humansdorp. -
Good season. Euphorbia ferox.