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 The photographs complement Skead’s published and unpublished work held at Cory Library, including field notes, correspondence, and research manuscripts.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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Karooveld on Table Farm, 10km NW of Grahamstown

Field of Aloe ferox.
Karooveld on Table Farm, 10km NW of Grahamstown

Field of Aloe ferox.
Table Hill on 'Table Farm' (formerly Noutoe), 11km NW of Grahamstown, taken from the north

Karroid nature of the veld in the forefront with scattered bush.
Table Hill on 'Table Farm' (formerly Noutoe), 11km NW of Grahamstown, taken from the north

Karroid nature of the veld in the forefront.
Beside Cradock Road, Table Farm, 10km NW Grahamstown, Albany

Large spread of Mesembryanthemum protected by roadside fences. Does not survive outside fences.
Beside Cradock Road, Table Farm, 10km NW Grahamstown, Albany

Large spread of Mesembryanthemum protected by roadside fences. Does not survive outside fences.
Table Farm, 11km NW Grahamstown, Albany

Blue Tulp, Moraea polystachya at roadside. Several similar patches elsewhere along the roadside there. The blueness should be deeper than in the photograph.
South face of Highlands Mountain, 22km west of Grahamstown, 2nd highest point in the Albany district

Picture taken from the north with 'Taken Farm' homestead etc. behind the trees. 'Table Hill' is out of picture to the left. 'Noutoe', the origional name for 'Table Farm' was an important outspan place for waggoners to the east in the early 1700's, and later was a farming area from 1784.
View from the west of Table Hill on 'Table Farm', 11km NW of Grahamstown and in the Noutoe River valley which runs into the New Year's River out of picture to the left

This valley of Noutoe during the 1700's was a famous outspan place and later farming area for the first Dutch settlers.
View from the west of Table Hill on 'Table Farm', 11km NW of Grahamstown and in the Noutoe River valley which runs into the New Year's River out of picture to the left

The Noutoe River breaks through the bush-dotted hills on the horizon to the far right centre. This valley was used during the1700's as the main outspan to the east before entering the Great Fish River valley. The 'Grosvenor' rescue mission of 1783, with its 300 personnel and waggons etc, camped here for a fortnight. Dutch farmers settled here and were granted land in 1783.
Grey's Kloof Poort on Noutoe River at boundary between Table Farm and Slaaikraal farms, 10km west Grahamstown

This poort might well be the place which the Khoekhoe named Noutoe(=Swart Poort) from which the area's original name of the 1770's came into currency among whites.
Tankatara Flats

Mestoklama small orange flowers. Now in full flower everywhere. Also there were colour varieties - yellow, pink, rose & red.
Near Tankatara, Sunday's River Valley

Helen vd Plank at lunch picnic during flower-collecting trip.
Tankatara sign

Tankatara sign.
Near Tankatara, Sunday's River Valley

Spread of low-growing Felicia Daisies and Sutera microphyllum in a spendid season in mixed bushveld.
Tankatara Flats on right (west) bank of Sunday's River looking south to low bushy slopes in distance

Open grassveld in an exceptionally good season.
Tankatara Flats on right (west) bank of Sunday's River looking north to Sunday's River hills.

Open grassveld in an exceptionally good season.
Tankatara bushveld, Sunday's River, Port Elizabeth

Typical Aloe ferox plant. Note the Aloe africana plant protruding above the tall bushes, upper right.
Tankatara bushveld, Sunday's River, Port Elizabeth

Typical Aloe ferox plant. Note the Aloe africana plant protruding above the tall bushes, upper right.
Tankatara bushveld, Sunday's River, Port Elizabeth

Woman arranging Aloe ferox leaves for juice-tapping.
Tankatara bushveld, Sunday's River, Port Elizabeth

Woman stripping Aloe ferox leaves for juice-tapping.
Tankatara bushveld, Sunday's River, Port Elizabeth

Woman preparing Aloe ferox leaves for piling in order to induce juice-flow in the tapping process.
Tankatara, Sunday's River Valley

Maytenus polyacanthus in full flower in bushveld. Now well in flower everywhere.
Tankatara, Sunday's River Valley

Maytenus polyacanthus in full flower in bushveld.
Tankatara Farm, Sunday's River Valley

Autumn leafage (not flowers) of a Rhus sp. In light bushveld.