Caption "A fine old White Milkwood tree on Kariega Farm in the grounds of the homestead, 1982. The Kariega River runs in the line of Eucalptus trees in the distance. Photo - C. J. Skead."
Caption "This Milkwood tree was one of several which were to have been cut down to make way for a dual carriageway on the Schoenmakerskop Road, but planner have realigned the road to save them. E. P. Herald 1 May 1979."
Caption "White Milkwood trees now protected. The White milkwood tree which has been proclaimed protected. Damaging it without having a permit carries a fine of R100, or six months in jail, or both. E. P. Herald, Port Elizabeth. 27-08-1974."
Original caption "ILN Vol. 72 p, 509: 1878. (Melton Prior) Said to be the largest tree in the Waterkloof. In the Kaffir War, after some heavy fighting, Sir G. Cathcart had his name and the date carved on the tree. It lived until about 1875 when it began to die. It was about 150 ft. high and 29 ft. in circumference (i.e. 45.6 m high and 8.8 m round)."
Original hand-written caption "Row of pines in Alexandria Road, King Williams Town, the main thoroughfare of the national road through the town, each with a notice bearing a word which in the end made a sentence inviting people to attend the Dutch Reformed Church Bazaar. Strangely though the wording is in English, not in Afrikaans".
Article written by C. J. Skead to the East London Daily Dispatch (dated 19 May 1959), bringing attention to the deforestation of the Fort Grey forest by Mr C Miles Warren (MP). The article is acompanied by a harndwitten note stating "Mr C Miles Warren, M.P. had the contract for removing the forest and did very well out of it, especially with box-wood!! Hence the letter which would have [illegible] his consumers".
Caption "Old steam engine at Isidenge, King Williams Town. Such are still used by sawyers in the area beacause they can be fired by sawdust and cut-offs from the sawn timber. Gordon Ranger standing beside. 1959."
Caption "Old saw-pit in receding forest, Nqantosi area, Upper Kubusie, Stutterheim. One figure in the pit, one on edge. Bole of latifolius yellow-wood at the edge. 1959."
Caption "The felling of the palm tree at the Sacred Heart Church King Wms Town [King William's Town]. 1962. The Church had been so well balanced by the two huge palm trees. Now it is all odd. The first English Starling in K.W.T. were seen in the right-hand palm."
Caption "At Storm's River Bridge (west side), Tsitsikamma. Across the road from Restaurant & Gorge, c. 1960's. Shows internal cross-section of a forest, with trunks and canopy."
Caption "TW 11. Desecration by the GPO. A kloof remorselessly hacked for a new telephone line 1 mile s. Kei Road, K.W.T. This is the famous Crapkloof of immortal memory. 1962."
Caption "TW 11. Showing the nature of tall moist-forest growth at Cwengcwe, King Wms Town. A cross section against a place recently felled of its pines. 1962."
Caption "Dead yellowwood tree on Lange Vlakte farm, Alexandria, 10 km SW Alexandria town. 1980. The tree had been burnt and killed, apparently by blacks taking honey from its hollow stem. Photo C.J. Skead, 1980."
