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 The photographs complement Skead’s published and unpublished work held at Cory Library, including field notes, correspondence, and research manuscripts.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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Good season. Euphorbia ferox. -
Good season. Fine specimen of Pappea capensis, one of the feature plants in this veld-type. Euphorbia ferox. -
In good season. Note more open country in background. Euphorbia ferox. -
In good season. Compare growth-height with height of fence-pole. Euphorbia ferox. -
In good season. Compare growth-height with height of fence-pole. Euphorbia ferox. -
Euphorbia ferox and Spekboom. -
Field of Gazania. -
9 different centres from the same field of Gazania. -
Note the variable centre. -
Curtain-like branches of spekboom hanging in front of a cavemouth. -
Curtain-like branches of spekboom hanging in front of a cavemouth. -
Coral Aloes Aloe striata. Much of this hillside was covered with them but the dryness of the grass hides their redness in the picture. Many sunbirds were active at the time the photo was taken. -
Acacia karroo trees in full flower. -
Spread of Senecio juniperinus - an annual. -
Field of forbs (Asteracae), scattered Combretum trees surrounding. -
Old Coral tree, Erythrina caffra atop a ricky hill. Soon after the photo was taken the old tree collapsed from old age. -
Note the fine bush-forest covering the hill at back and continuing to left. Behind the camera, a similar hill was fully bush-forest covered until 1998 when half was destroyed by a local quarry-owner. -
Patches of Honeybush tea in flower, Cyclopia pubescens, a larger patch among smaller patches in intermittently moist ground. -
Roadside Carpobrotus deliciosus, one of many now flowering after winter rains with a few yellow flowering examples nearby. -
Honeybush tea, Cyclopia pubescens in good flower and gorund very wet after exceptionally good winter rains. -
Roadside Arums, a small sample of many similar arum growths along this road after good winter rains -
Hibiscus ludwigii on a sunny day. -
Plumbago capensis. Photo was taken with plant in full sun. Colour was richer blue than in photo. -
Protea cynaroides var. elliptica. Looking west across the flats to Witteklip Mountain in far distance. -
With fair amount of water after several years almost empty during severe drought years.