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 The photographs complement Skead’s published and unpublished work held at Cory Library, including field notes, correspondence, and research manuscripts.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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Outskirts of Redhouse, Port Elizabeth

Good sample of flowering Lebeckia psiloloba. Others nearby despite very severe current drought. Roadbridge over railway-sideline in background.
Northern outskirts of Redhouse, Port Elizabeth

Amazing stand of about 30 Glottophyllum longum plants, some in flower. Height of severe drought. A few other such aggregations nearby.
Outskirts of Redhouse village, Swartkops valley , Port Elizabeth

Sample of mixed species within a single bushclump, an area likely to be cleared for housing, e.g. Euphorbia ledienii; Cotyledon velutina; Aloe africana; Pachopodium sp. Azima tetracantha, etc.
Near old hockey field, SW corner Redhouse village, Port Elizabeth

Patch of Redhouse Daisy, Dimorphotheca cuneata skirting bush-clumps. Railway ramp of Uitenhage-Swartkops in background.
Near old hockey field, SW corner Redhouse village, Port Elizabeth

Heavy ripe fruiting of Duinebessie, Nylandtia spinosa.
NW corner of Redhouse village, Swartkops Valley, Port Elizabeth

Fine spread of Dimorphotheca cuneata, Redhouse Daisy. Swartkops Road in background. This area will probably be lost to housing in the near future
Old hockey field at Redhouse with school in background

Good spread of Oncosiphon piluliferum (Asteraceae) colonising field.
Redhouse, Port Elizabeth (near the cemetery)

Fine specimen of Solanum tomentosum in full dry berry. Many other such examples in the vicinity. Seldom seen in such size.
Redhouse cemetery, Port Elizabeth

Massed plants of Oxalis purpurea. Many others out of picture in rest of cemetery grounds.
Redhouse, Port Elizabeth, west of railway line

Portion of large patch of Cineraria lobata with site of Florence Paterson's home in the background trees.
Just below Perseverance, Port Elizabeth

Ebb-and-flow of the Swartkops River.
Scene at Swartkops Saltpan near Perseverence

The white layer is salt stockpile.
Gerenal view across Swartkops Saltpan above Perseverence

Showing type of vegetation. Note the heaps of salt.
Gerenal view across Swartkops Saltpan above Perseverence

Note the controlling walls for working the salt. Note the poor type of vegetation immediately surrounding the pan.
Gerenal view across Swartkops Saltpan above Perseverence from the northwest

Note the controlling walls for working the salt with good Valley Bush thicket on the high ground and poor scrub nearer the pan.
Swartkops Salt Works on hill above Perseverence, Port Elizabeth, looking north

Harvesting a layer of salt by scooping and delivering by conveyor-belt into waiting truck. Looking north to heavily bushed hillside.
Swartkops Salt Works on hill above Perseverence, Port Elizabeth, looking north

Accumulation of salt ready to be harvested. Note machine at work biside roadway in distant left.
Swartkops Salt Works on hill above Perseverence, Port Elizabeth

Looking across northwestern corner of the pans to the heavily-bushed surrounding hills.
Swartkop Saltpans

Swartkop Salt pan
Rise between Perseverence in the valley and the Swartkops Saltpan above

Two fine relict Euphorbia triangularis trees in Valley Bush.
Swartkops Saltpan looking west towards the Grootwinterhoek mountains

The old lake is now fully worked as a saltpan by National Salt Works. The size is an estimated 50 hectares.
Looking westwards across Swartkops Saltpan towards the Grootwinterhoek Mt

Layout of the Saltpans can be seen beyond the vehicle. William Massyn, warden of the Van Staden's Wild Flower Reserve in picture. Note density of surrounding bushveld on far bank. Estimate of pan's extent, c. 50 ha.
Swartkop Saltpans

Destruction of natural northern verge of what was once a beautiful lake, now a fully-worked saltpan. Note piles of salt in background. Also nature of dense surrounding bushveld on slopes.
Down the northwestern slope of the Swartkops Saltpan

Vegetation showing density of Aloe pluridens, so much a feature here. But, in the far distance, the Valley Bush on the flatter ground is lower and denser. The northwestern corner of the saltpan lake is just visible middle-left in the picture.
Northwestern corner of Swartkops Saltpans

Showing nature and density of vegetation surrounding the once-beautiful natural lake known to and commented on by every early traveller back to Thunberg in 1772.