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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A wide-angle landscape photograph looking down a dirt-paved High Street in Grahamstown. In the foreground, a large span of oxen is harnessed to a covered transport wagon with several attendants standing nearby. The background features the spire of the Cathedral of St. Michael and St. George and various colonial-era buildings against the hills. -
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The gravestone is engraved: “Hottentot Victim of the [picture of an axe] war 1846”. On the back of the image is a note reading: “T Mackenzie Kingston House SMT”. -
Glass negative : Twenty five views of unidentified individuals and crowds, some dressed in Voortrekker clothing, attending a service, and posing with ox wagons and carriages. -
Glass negative : Twenty five views of unidentified individuals and crowds, some dressed in Voortrekker clothing, attending a service, and posing with ox wagons and carriages. -
Glass negative : Twenty five views of unidentified individuals and crowds, some dressed in Voortrekker clothing, attending a service, and posing with ox wagons and carriages. -
Glass negative : Twenty five views of unidentified individuals and crowds, some dressed in Voortrekker clothing, attending a service, and posing with ox wagons and carriages. -
Glass negative : Twenty five views of unidentified individuals and crowds, some dressed in Voortrekker clothing, attending a service, and posing with ox wagons and carriages. -
Glass negative : Twenty five views of unidentified individuals and crowds, some dressed in Voortrekker clothing, attending a service, and posing with ox wagons and carriages. -
Glass negative : Twenty five views of unidentified individuals and crowds, some dressed in Voortrekker clothing, attending a service, and posing with ox wagons and carriages. -
Group photograph : members of the twenty-first annual Conference of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa held in Queenstown, 1903. Photographer : H T Healey -
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Dense Typha beds surrounding a vlei, used annually as a nesting site by Red Bishop birds. -
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View of a man seated on the step of a thatched house in an overgrown garden, reading a newspaper. An inscription on the mount reads: 'Hepper's house, King William's Town'. -
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Two photographs stuck on card, of: (a) View of High Street, Grahamstown, showing the Cathedral of St Michael and St George with the spire, completed in 1878. The Settlers Memorial Tower, completed in 1870, can be seen to the left. (b) View of the intersection of Worcester and Somerset Streets, Grahamstown, with a Victorian fluted pillar box ca. 1859-60 in the foreground, reputed to be the oldest official letter box in South Africa. The house of the Headmaster of St Andrew's College is visible behind it, with Christchurch, built in 1876, in the distance. The latter photograph was taken by Aldham and Aldham, photographers active in Grahamstown from1879-1905. -
View of an almost deserted High Street, looking eastwards towards the Cathedral of St Michael and St George. The photograph is mounted on card which bears the inscription 'The Cathedral High Street Grahamstown'. It predates the building of the Cathedral spire, completed in 1878. -
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The original Rietberg over which early waggoners and some 1820 Settlers passed on way to the north, the track ascending just out of picture to the left on Boekenhoutfontein farm. -
