Lidbetter Collection
Item set
- Title
- Lidbetter Collection
- Alternative Title
- William Walpole Lidbetter Collection
- Creator
- Lidbetter, William Walpole
- Description
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The William Walpole Lidbetter collection housed at Rhodes University constitutes a primary source for the study of the Eastern Cape, South Africa, during the early to mid-twentieth century. Lidbetter, a prominent photographer based in Cradock, is recognised for his prolific and detailed visual documentation, which offers insights into the region's social, political, and environmental history.
The archive, primarily comprising glass-plate negatives and lantern slides, functions as a visual ethnography of the Cradock district and the broader Karoo. - Date Issued
- Circa 1890–1945
- Type
- Collection
- Genre
- Photographs
- Subject
- Cradock (South Africa) -- History
- Hotels -- Fires -- Cradock -- Photographs
- Landslides -- South Africa -- Karoo -- Photographs
- Rockfalls -- South Africa -- Karoo -- Photographs
- Railroads -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope -- Photographs
- Processions -- South Africa -- Cradock -- Photographs
- South Africa -- Social life and customs -- Photographs
- Carriages and carts -- Photographs
- Nature (Aesthetics) -- Rivers -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Hutchinson, Walter Francis Hely-, Sir, 1849-1913
- Bloukrans Bridge (Eastern Cape, South Africa) -- Photographs
- Lidbetter, Helen Stirling Cotton
- Medium
- Glass negatives and lantern slides
Items
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Glass negative : View showing the camp of First City Regiment with Cradock in the background, December 1899. -
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Glass negative : Four views of General Jan Smuts on a visit to Cradock, 10 November 1932: three showing him mounted and one in which he is pinning a medal onto an unknown man. A fifth negative is a copy of a photo showing Smuts and two other men taken during the South African War, 1899-1902 -
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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. -
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Glass negative : View of wagons on Market Square, Cradock, 2 April 1904, with the Dutch Reformed Church in the background. -
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