C.J. Skead Photograph Collection

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Title: C.J. Skead Photograph Collection
Creator: Skead, C. J. (Cuthbert John)
Description: 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 The photographs complement Skead’s published and unpublished work held at Cory Library, including field notes, correspondence, and research manuscripts.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

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Marine Drive, near Shelly Bay, Port Elizabeth

Two plants of Felicia echinata at roadside. Other singletons were flowering elsewhere along this stretch of road.
Roadside of Marine Drive, behind University of Port Elizabeth

Coleonema pulchrum in full flower with more not far from there.
Marine Drive, behind University of Port Elizabeth

Strong patch of Coleonema pulchrum plants showing how common the species is in this area.
South of University of Port Elizabeth but not on the campus itself

Recent devastation by fire on an extensive scale.
South of University of Port Elizabeth

Complete burn of veld.
Noordhoek, Marine Drive, Port Elizabeth

Burnout of wattle.
Noordhoek, Marine Drive, Port Elizabeth

Burnout of wattle.
Municipal ground along east side of the Marine Drive near Noordhoek, Port Elizabeth

Regrowth of duneveld (seven years regrowth) after fire of 14 jan 1998 when heavy invasions of wattle were destroyed. Note the bushy wattle regrowth among local indigenous vegetation.
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University ground behind electrified fence on west side of Marine Drive, near Noordhoek

View from same aspect as CO 1 above looking west over ground. Note the strong regrowth of a grass sp. 7 years after the fire of 14 Jan 1998.
Noordhoek, Marine Drive, Port Elizabeth

Burnout of wattle.
Oudtshoorn - Heather Collins at 3 weeks

Heather Collins at 3 weeks.
10 km south Oudtshoorn

Klapperbos, Nymania capensis in good pod. Many such plants grew along the road at this point.
10 km south Oudtshoorn

Fine flowering plant of Rhigozum obovatum within roadside fences.
Seven Weeks Poort, Ladysmith

One of many flowering Keurbooms, Virgilia oroboides. Peggy Collins and her car on display.
A few km south Oudtshoorn

Single plant of Nymania capensis, Klapperbos, in full seed-pod (Chinese Lantern) at roadside. Wheatland in background, recently reaped.
Bottom of Swartberg Pass, Prince Albert, Cape Province

Pelargonium? In massed flower along the roadside and partway up the steep slopes at the base of the precipices. This was a mere portion of the whole scene.
Hallack Street signpost off Park Drive, Port Elizabeth

Hallack Street signpost off Park Drive, Port Elizabeth - named in honour of Mr. Russell Hallack (1824-1903) a Port Elizabeth businessman and naturalist who lived in Park Drive.
No. 6 Deare Street at Redhouse

Home of Mrs. Florence Paterson, an outstanding plant-collector and amateur botanist of the late 19th & early 20th centuries.
No. 6 Deare Street at Redhouse

Home of Mrs. Florence Paterson, an outstanding local plant-collector and amateur botanist of her time.
Russel Hallack (1824 - 1903), Father of Florence Mary Paterson (1869 - 1936)

Russel Hallack (1824 - 1903). Father of Florence Mary Paterson (1869 - 1936). Both keen amatuer botanists.
Florence Mary Paterson b. Hallack (1869 - 1936)

Florence Mary Paterson b. Hallack (1869 - 1936). Well known amatuer botanist at Port Elizabeth. Daughter of Russel Hallack, also a keen amatuer botanist.
Annie Hallack (later Vardy) b. 1852; Elizabeth Hallack (later English); Florence Mary Hallack (later Paterson) (1869 - 1936)

Annie Hallack (later Vardy) b. 1852. Left: Elizabeth Hallack (later English); Right: Florence Mary Hallack (later Paterson) (1869 - 1936). Daughters of Russel Hallack of Port Elizabeth.
Near Breakfast Vlei, Peddie

White Vlei Lilies (Crinum campanulatum).
Near Breakfast Vlei, Peddie

White Vlei Lilies (Crinum campanulatum). Usually they are a deep pink.
Looking across the Keiskamma basin from West Pirie Peak (Hoho Peak) to the three Hogsback peaks. To the left Bhukazana, centre Nguku (flat-top) and Mnyameni to the right

Between these three and Chata Peak to the far right is Gaika's Kop, a truncated spitskop in the distance. On the slopes of Bhukazana a dense tall growth of Protea subvestita thrives as it does out of the picture to the immediate left of the photographer.