The Frontier Collections
Item set
- Title
- The Frontier Collections
- Description
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The Frontier Collections are a curated collection of archival materials that document the turbulent and formative era of the Eastern Cape frontier. Spanning the late 18th to the early 20th century, these collections provide a multi-perspective view of the Frontier Wars (Xhosa Wars), the establishment of colonial administration, and the subsequent growth of settler infrastructure.
The collection is particularly noted for its focus on the "Frontier Country"—the region surrounding Makhanda (Grahamstown)—detailing the interplay between British settlers, Boer trekkers, and the Xhosa kingdoms. - Language
- English
- isiXhosa
- Type
- Collection
- Subject
- Frontier Wars
- 1820 Settlers
- Military History
- Colonial Architecture
- Xhosa History
- Urban Development
- Spatial Coverage
- Eastern Cape, South Africa (formerly the Cape Colony frontier)
- Temporal Coverage
- c. 1779 – 1910
- Format
- Manuscripts
- Lantern slides
- Cartographic materials
Items
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Map of the Great Fish River Irrigation Board. C.H. Hughes, circle engineer; A.D. Lewis, Director of Irrigation. -
Glass negative : View of wagons on Market Square, Cradock, 2 April 1904, with the Dutch Reformed Church in the background. -
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Account books, cash books and a Women's Auxiliary Minute Book for Mossel Bay, for the period 1906-1931. -
Minute books, cash account books, and correspondence, covering the years 1888-1968, for the English, Dutch (Coloured) and Basuto churches. -
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A photograph album compiled by Mary Butler, containing photographs of Wayfarers, Sunbeams and Pathfinders, mostly in Cradock. Two newspaper clippings and a handwritten concert programme included. There are three photographs of Rev. James Arthur Calata's young daughters, and he himself is included in two photographs. This photograph showing Miss Butler, a Wayfarer Officer wearing her uniform, 1929 -
Missionary map of the Queenstown district showing Methodist, Anglican, Moravian, United Presbyterian and Free Church of Scotland stations. -
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A photograph album compiled by Mary Butler, containing photographs of Wayfarers, Sunbeams and Pathfinders, mostly in Cradock. Two newspaper clippings and a handwritten concert programme included. There are three photographs of Rev. James Arthur Calata's young daughters, and he himself is included in two photographs. This photograph showing Mrs Butler with Wayfarer officers wearing uniform, 15 March 1932 -
A photograph album compiled by Mary Butler, containing photographs of Wayfarers, Sunbeams and Pathfinders, mostly in Cradock. Two newspaper clippings and a handwritten concert programme included. There are three photographs of Rev. James Arthur Calata's young daughters, and he himself is included in two photographs. This photograph showing Mrs Mkwaza, an officer in charge of the Sunbeams. Sunbeams, a church group for young girls and boys, is a program for children to develop skills like camping, sports, personal health -
A photograph album compiled by Mary Butler, containing photographs of Wayfarers, Sunbeams and Pathfinders, mostly in Cradock. Two newspaper clippings and a handwritten concert programme included. There are three photographs of Rev. James Arthur Calata's young daughters, and he himself is included in two photographs. This photograph showing Mrs Mkwaza with Sunbeams camping. Sunbeams, a church group for young girls and boys, is a program for children to develop skills like camping, sports, personal health -
A photograph album compiled by Mary Butler, containing photographs of Wayfarers, Sunbeams and Pathfinders, mostly in Cradock. Two newspaper clippings and a handwritten concert programme included. There are three photographs of Rev. James Arthur Calata's young daughters, and he himself is included in two photographs. This photograph showing Mrs Mkwaza with Sunbeams camping. Sunbeams, a church group for young girls and boys, is a program for children to develop skills like camping, sports, personal health -
A photograph album compiled by Mary Butler, containing photographs of Wayfarers, Sunbeams and Pathfinders, mostly in Cradock. Two newspaper clippings and a handwritten concert programme included. There are three photographs of Rev. James Arthur Calata's young daughters, and he himself is included in two photographs. This photograph showing Mrs Patrick Duncan. Typescript: "Photograph of Mrs Patrick Duncan, snapped at the conference of the Girl Wayfarers's Association, held this week at Cape Town. Mrs Duncan, who is the Central President of the Wayfarers' Association, returned to South Africa a week or two ago from spending a year in Europe with her children -
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Rhodes University student passing through northern gates of the Botanical Gardens. Note the variety of interesting plants including aliens. -
Array of alien palms and indigenous aloes. etc. The gardens were established in 1853. -
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. -
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. -
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