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 The photographs complement Skead’s published and unpublished work held at Cory Library, including field notes, correspondence, and research manuscripts.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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Carbon Black factory in background. Patches of Syncarpa striatum (ex Helichrysum striatum) dotted among the coarse hedge-like growth. -
Yellow folliage of Disphyma crassifolium with contrasting shades of other saltmarsh, including reds of Salicornia near the Carbon Black factory, Port Elizabeth. No flowers on this patch of Disphyma. -
Spread of Disphyma crassifolium (Mesem). Just behind the dunes on the seaside Carbon Black (Algorax) factory. -
Chimneys of Municipal Power Station in background. Salicornia in red colour phase. -
Salicornia-covered flats, in red phase. Carbon Black factory in background. -
Showing mixed colours of drying marsh plants behind the row of low dunes. -
Dry vlei, heavily-grassed and covered in flowering Senecio iniquidens after a good winter season. -
Vlei deliberately filled by stormwater from factory sites & townships to right of picture. Used by local wildfowl. -
Exceptionally fine flowering of a single Pachypodium succulentum plant. Several other such plants in flower, none as good as this. -
Fine flowering display by a single plant of Alectra capensis in grass. Many other Alectra plants in flower nearby, none as good as this. Note Glottyphyllum plants next to the Alectra. -
Typical massed flowering of Gasteria bicolor plants in scrub-bushveld. A common plant in this type of veld. -
Typical scrub-bushveld here & elsewhere in the vicinity. Soon to be destroyed under urban development. Note the variey of close-packed plant-life. Photo taken in a good season. -
Group of 10 individual plants of Alectra capensis in veld, others in the vicinity. This area due for destruction under urban sprawl. -
Typical grassveld, with patches of dense thorny scrub-bush growing nearby. Plants of yellow Alectra capensis visible. Swartkops-Uitenhage road in background passing over railway sideline to factory sites beyond. This area due for destruction under urban development. -
Pelargonium peltatum swarming over low-growing scrub-bushes. This area due for destruction under the urban sprawl in the future. -
Dense patch of seeding Rooigrass, Themeda triandra. Rusty colour shows why called rooigrass or red grass. Dense aloes in mid photo, house in background. -
2 plants of Zygophyllum morgzana with display of yellow seedpods giving initial imprression of flowers. Probably be put under housing in the future. -
Typical dense stand of aloes in natural veld. Mostly A. ferox in foreground with tall A. africana in background. This type of veld may well be built on in the future. -
Fine flowering specimen of Stapelia grandiflora, of which several other plants grew nearby. This plant had 7 flowers with 22 buds out of the picture. -
2 of many patches of Vingerpol, Euphorbia inerme, in good flower. -
An exceptionally fine stool of Vingerpol in full, fine, flower, Euphorbia inerme. Surrounded by Salicornia leaves in the red phase. -
William Massyn among several good stands of Euphorbia ledienii in full flower with bushclumps interspersed. Swartkops River valley about 500m north of the developing factory sites. This area may well soon be absorbed by urban sprawl. -
Showing density of Aloe ferox growth in veld. Such density occurs elsewhere in the area. -
Waggon traffic had perforce to cross the river above the ebb-and-flow. -
Astonishing density of Aloe pluridens plants. Such densities are a feature of the whole length of the southfacing escarpment. In the photo is William Massyn, warden of the Van Staden's Wild Flower Reserve.