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 The photographs complement Skead’s published and unpublished work held at Cory Library, including field notes, correspondence, and research manuscripts.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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Woman cutting lower-green leaves of Aloe ferox plants for juice-tapping. Note all surrounding aloes already partly de-leaved. This aloe is plentiful in the Coega and Sunday's River valleys and is much exploited there still. -
Old dried out Aloe ferox leaves which have been tapped for their juice and left in the ring-like position in which they were laid for tapping, cut-ends inwards. The juice is used in pharmaceutics. -
24 Blooms on a single Gazania krebsii plant, despite such dry conditions that no other Gazania or any herb was flowering at the time. Plant on very dry, hard Kalkklip roadway. -
Plant of Acmadenia obtusata. -
Fine stand of Peyrousea umbellata in old pine ground. -
Fine stand of Peyrousea umbellata in old pine ground. -
Stand of Arum Lilies, Zantedeschia aethiopica. -
Road seen winding up to the nek into Langkloof beyond. -
View south from Kareedouw Pass across the low coastal plain of Tsitsikamma towards the sea. -
Modern National road in middle distance. -
Wachendorfia thyrsiflora at edge of pinetree plantation. -
Satyrium. -
Satyrium longicorna in open space beside plantation. Derek Langman, Western Districts Nature Conservation. -
Alepidea capensis in good number. -
Near where Thunberg and Swellengrebel were shown Encephalartos caffra in the 1770's by Jacob Kok of Seekoei River. -
The house at left belonged to HG Fourcade,the botanist. Built to his own design in 1918. The house to the right was used by him for visiting botanists. A small stone house in which he lived from 1910 until his house waas built is behind this righthand house. -
The house at left belonged to HG Fourcade,the botanist. Built to his own design in 1918. The house to the right was used by him for visiting botanists. A small stone house in which he lived from 1910 until his house waas built is behind this righthand house. -
Built to his design in 1918 and lived in by him till his death at Tsitsikamma in 1948, aged 83. Until occupying this house he lived in a small stone cottage (still standing) when he bought the property in 1910. -
Pelargonium inquinans in dense bushveld. Height of bush about 2.5 metres. -
Great density of Prickly-pear. Very small section of the whole. Much fruit is collected annually by residents of Uitenhage. -
Faucaria felina growing in dry, stony ground on 'Echodale' farm. Surrounded by dense bush. -
Faucaria felina growing in dry, stony ground on 'Echodale' farm. Surrounded by dense bush. -
Euphorbia ledienii in dense bushveld. William Massyn of Van Staden's Wild Flower Reserve in picture. -
Spalmanthus sp. (Mesems) growing over Euphorbia ledienii. The white flowers are the Spalmanthus flowers. -
Pelargonium acetosum, one of many fine specimens in a good season.