Cory Library and Historical Archives

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  Church Square, Grahamstown, showing Cathedral and City Hall

  A sepia-toned postcard or print depicting Church Square in Grahamstown. The scene shows the Anglican Cathedral of St. Michael and St. George in the center and the City Hall clock tower on the right. The foreground captures a transition in transport, featuring both motorised vehicles parked in a row and a traditional donkey or ox-drawn wagon in the lower right. The "Bon Marche" building is visible on the far left.
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  Churchill Estate, Parow - Church-school 1934 with 120 children and 3 teachers
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  Churchill Estate, Parrow - late 1920s
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  Coloured labourer partially disabled (back of photo)

  Transcript: "A Coloured labourer was partially disabled at his work. The firm employing him allowed him £100 in compensation for his injury and entrusted the amount to Mr. Mason to use for the man as he saw fit. He brought a plot of land on the Flats and on it had a small house, consisting of three rooms and a kitchen, built to serve the family as a home such as they would never otherwise had, and it was their own."
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  Coloured labourer partially disabled (photo)

  Typed on back of photo: "A Coloured labourer was partially disabled at his work. The firm employing him allowed him £100 in compensation for his injury and entrusted the amount to Mr. Mason to use for the man as he saw fit. He brought a plot of land on the Flats and on it had a small house, consisting of three rooms and a kitchen, built to serve the family as a home such as they would never otherwise had, and it was their own."
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  Confirmation candidates
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  Conradie Hospital, Pinelands
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  Farmerfield Church built by Daniel Roberts ca. 1830s

  Photograph shows a group of black children (possibly a school class) with their schoolmaster in front of the church building. Inscribed on the back are the words ' ... This picture was taken 1935 aprox by Allan Biggs when he took his mother to see the church built by her father.' Photo accompanied a memorial sketch of Benjamin F. Roberts, kept at MS 19 922.
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  Front part of the Trinity church, approximately 1902 or 1905
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  Garden Village Church School, Maitland - circa 1926
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  Goodwood church school next to church, Goodwood - circa 1934

  Photo depicting Goodwood church school, opened in 1934 by Mr De Vos Malan.
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  Goodwood church school, Goodwood - opening ceremony 1934

  Photo depicting Goodwood church school, opened in 1934 by Mr De Vos Malan.
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  Grahamstown Cathedral 1962

  Added to the lantern slide collection by Dr Charles GE Cory, son of Sir George Cory.
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  Grahamstown Cathedral from Church Square 1900

  Ox wagons and oxen teams in the foreground.
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  Group photograph : members of the nineteenth annual Conference of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa, held in Port Elizabeth, 1901

  Group photograph : members of the nineteenth annual Conference of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa, held in Port Elizabeth, 1901. Photographers : J W Goldsbrough & Son
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  Group photograph : members of the nineteenth annual Conference of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa, held in Port Elizabeth, 1901

  Group photograph : members of the nineteenth annual Conference of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa, held in Port Elizabeth, 1901. Photographers : J W Goldsbrough & Son
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  Group photograph : members of the twenty-first annual Conference of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa held in Queenstown, 1903

  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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  Group photograph : members of the twenty-third annual Conference of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa, held in Grahamstown, 1905

  Group photograph : members of the twenty-third annual Conference of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa, held in Grahamstown, 1905. Photographers : Hepburn & Jeanes
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  Group photograph : members of the twenty-third annual Conference of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa, held in Grahamstown, 1905

  Group photograph : members of the twenty-third annual Conference of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa, held in Grahamstown, 1905. Photographers : Hepburn & Jeanes
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  High Street - Grahamstown - from the Cathedral spire
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  High Street, Grahamstown, and the intersection of Worcester Street and Somerset Street, circa 1880

  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.
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  High Street, Grahamstown, with view of the Cathedral of St Michael and St George, circa 1870

  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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  Hill street, Grahamtown (circa 1849)

  Hill street, Grahamtown (circa 1849) printed for the South African Permanent Building Society by Cape & Transvaal Printers Ltd (November, 1964), by kind permission of Eastern Province Guardian Loan & Investment Company
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  House of poor in districts Korsten

  Photography of poor housing in Korsten, Port Elizabeth.
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  House of poor in districts Korsten

  Photograph of poor housing in Korsten, Port Elizabeth.