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 The photographs complement Skead’s published and unpublished work held at Cory Library, including field notes, correspondence, and research manuscripts.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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  • Cape chestnut
    Caption: "Cape Chestnut relict in eroded soil, near Line drift, Keiskamma River Valley. 11.7.1960."
  • Cape chestnut
    Caption: "Large Chestnut standing out above forest near Woodlands, King Wms Town district. 1959."
  • Cape chestnut
    Caption: "Cape Chestnut beside the National Road near Line Drift, Keiskamma River, King William's Town. Note how the tree is growing alone, yet it is a tree which normally likes to have others growing around it. The veld has been denuded of its dense valley bush along the stream. 1964." Additional handwritten note: "This tree was destroyed by road gangs in the early 1970's."
  • Cape chestnut
    Caption: "Cape Chestnut beside the National Road near Line Drift, Keiskamma River, King William's Town. Note how the tree is growing alone, yet it is a tree which normally likes to have others growing around it. The veld has been denuded of its dense valley bush along the stream. 1964." Additional handwritten note: "This tree was destroyed by road gangs in the early 1970's."
  • Cape chestnut
    Caption: "Sprays of flowers of Cape Chestnut at the tree in the Keiskamma River Valley near Line Drift, King Williams Town. 1964." Additional handwritten note: "This tree was destroyed by road gangs in the early 1970's."
  • Cape chestnut
    Caption: "Seed pod of Cape Chestnut showing arrangement and shape of the hard black nuts."
  • Cape chestnut
    Caption: "Cape Chestnut. C.capense nuts. The complete nut; the husks as discarded and the kernels which are eaten by parrots. Ramerons swallow the whole nut."
  • Cape chestnut
    Caption: "Outline of Cape Chestnut above forest patch on right of road at approach to Maden Dam Wall, King William's Town. March 1959."
  • Assegaaihout
    Caption: "Coppiced regrowth of Curtisia dentata Assegaaihout on 'Assegaaibosch, near Sidbury. 1980. In a small patch of forest in kloof west of old homestead. Growing from an old dead treetrunk there. This might be the old forest with Assegaaihout from which the farm and river took its name."
  • Assegaaihout
    Caption: "Coppiced regrowth of Curtisia dentata Assegaaihout on near Sidbury, Albany. 1980. In a small patch west of the homestead on Assegaaibosch farm. Growing from an old trunk in the forest. This might have been the forest with Assegaaihout mentioned by early travellers in the late 1770's as a stopping place."
  • Cape chestnut
    Caption: "Near Amalinda, East London. 6.9.1959. (This tree was all but leafless in Feb. 1960.)."
  • Cape chestnut
    Caption: "In Ingele Forest near Kokstad. Dec. 14. 1959."
  • Wild Olive
    Caption: "Fruits and leaves of Wild Olive. O.verrucosa."
  • Nuxia floribunda
    Caption: "Vlier coming in under pines at Pine forest."
  • Nuxia floribunda
    Caption: "Vlier coming in under pines at Pine forest."
  • Nuxia floribunda
    Caption: "Nuxia floribunda (Vlier) in flower beside Madem Dam, King Williams Town. 31/5/1960."
  • Ironwood
    Caption: "Looking across Upper Kubusie valley towards Mt. Kubusie, under Black Ironwood tree. 1959."
  • Sideroxylon inerme - Milkwood
    Caption "Growing things. UPE Milkwood; A line of young milkwoods residential area of the University of Port Elzabeth campus. Thhey are being trained as standards, having been grown from seeds selected from upright forms of versatile Milkwood. Protected in nature, Milkwoods, Sideroxylon inerme, are being grown in fair numbers on the campus as they are among the relatively few trees that will accept the hard growing conditions on the sandy, limestone soil. Their crowns are being created well above the ground to form them into shade trees relatively quickly. The student in the picture, taken some time ago , is Johanna Jonker. Eastern Province Herald, Wednesday, October 8, 1980."
  • Sideroxylon inerme - Milkwood
    Caption "University of Port Elizabeth campus. Milkwoods, Sideroxylon inerme, are being grown in fair numbers on campus as they are among the relatively few trees. Student Johanna Jonker photographed some time ago. Eastern Province Herald, Wednesday, October 8, 1980."
  • Emquasheni Fingo - Milkwood
    Caption "Emquasheni, Fingo, Tree at Peddie. King Williams Town. 27 October 1961."
  • Emquasheni Fingo - Milkwood
    Caption "Emquasheni, Fingo Tree at Peddie. King Williams Town. 27 October 1961. On 08-11-1964 The tree is 2'3" in diameter and about 18 feet high. Stem hollow all on the N side. J. M. Donald."
  • Sideroxylon inerme - White Milkwood
    Caption "The Fingo Umqwashu (Milkwood tree, Sideroxylon inerme) near Peddie. 1964."
  • Sideroxylon inerme - White Milkwood
    Caption "A fine White Milkwood S. inerme growing from the crack in a rounded dolerite boulder near Mt. Coke, King Wms Town. One way of survival. Aug. 1963."
  • Sideroxylon inerme - White Milkwood
    Caption "Close-up of the White Milkwood growing from the crack in the dolerite boulder near Mt. Coke, King Williams Town. Aug. 1963."
  • Sideroxylon inerme - White Milkwood
    Caption "A smaller white milkwood, S. inerme growing from between dolerite boulders near Mt. Coke, King Wms Town. Aug. 1963."