The Development of Settler Towns
Item set
- Title
- The Development of Settler Towns
- Alternative Title
- Eastern Cape Settler Towns Historical Collection
- Description
- The Development of Settler Towns is a major digitised archival collection from the Cory Library and Historical Archives at Rhodes University, forming part of The Frontier Collection. It brings together nearly 468 digitised resources documenting the historical emergence, expansion, and material culture of settler towns across the Eastern Cape, South Africa during the colonial and frontier period. The collection includes sub-sets on towns such as Alice, Bathurst, Bedford, Cathcart, Cradock, East London, Grahamstown, King William’s Town, Port Alfred, Port Elizabeth, Queenstown and others, illustrating a range of urban development patterns, community activities, built environments, maps, plans, and visual materials that reflect the social, economic, and geographic histories of these settlements. As an overarching thematic grouping within the Cory Library’s frontier history holdings, this item set supports comparative and place-based research into settler town origins, colonial infrastructure, demographic change, and regional interactions in the Eastern Cape.
- Language
- English
- Type
- Collection
- Subject
- Settler towns
- Eastern Cape -- History
- Colonial urban development
- Frontier history
- Spatial Coverage
- Eastern Cape, South Africa (multiple towns)
- Temporal Coverage
- Primarily 19th – early 20th century
- Format
- Digital images
- Maps
Items
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Curtain-like branches of spekboom hanging in front of a cavemouth. -
Coral Aloes Aloe striata. Much of this hillside was covered with them but the dryness of the grass hides their redness in the picture. Many sunbirds were active at the time the photo was taken. -
Acacia karroo trees in full flower. -
Spread of Senecio juniperinus - an annual. -
Field of forbs (Asteracae), scattered Combretum trees surrounding. -
Old Coral tree, Erythrina caffra atop a ricky hill. Soon after the photo was taken the old tree collapsed from old age. -
Mr. Tony Dold, first assistant and taxonomist. After amalgamation of the study-collections at the Albany Museum and Rhodes University, early 1990's. -
Mr. Tony Dold, first assistant and taxonomist. After amalgamation of the study-collections at the Albany Museum and Rhodes University, early 1990's. -
Display Sister Jeannie's flower paintings in foyer. A gift from Sisters of the Community of the Resurrection, per kind favour, the Curator, Tony Dold. (the white spot is a light reflection). -
Three examples of Mary Elizabeth Barber's flower paintings. All stapelias. By kind permission the Curator, Mr. T. Dold -
The new name was given in honour of Dr. Selmar Schonland, former Director of the Museum and Keeper of the Herbarium, when Rhodes University Herbarium was merged with the Albany Museum Herbarium in 1990's. -
Display Sister Jeannie's flower paintings in foyer. A gift from Sisters of the Community of the Resurrection, per kind favour, the Curator, Tony Dold. (the white spot is a light reflection). -
Large spread of Mesembryanthemum protected by roadside fences. Does not survive outside fences. -
Large spread of Mesembryanthemum protected by roadside fences. Does not survive outside fences. -
Nice houses in centre photo overlooking urban sprawl beyond. Bethelsdorp Saltpan near top of photo, thinned out original veld in foreground in which Sanseviera plants thrive. More good type homes behind photographer.