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Lidbetter Collection

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Title: Lidbetter Collection
Alternative Title: William Walpole Lidbetter Collection
Creator: Lidbetter, William Walpole
Description: 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

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Five views showing unidentified people
Five views showing unidentified people
Five views showing unidentified people
Five views showing unidentified people
Five views showing unidentified people
General Jan Smuts on a visit to Cradock, 10 November 1932
General Jan Smuts on a visit to Cradock, 10 November 1932
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
Grave of 'Helen Stirling Cotton, who died 20-2-1937, wife of William Walpole Lidbetter'
Great Trek, 1836-1840 - Centennial celebrations
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.
Great Trek, 1836-1840 - Centennial celebrations
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.
Great Trek, 1836-1840 - Centennial celebrations
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.
Great Trek, 1836-1840 - Centennial celebrations
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.
Great Trek, 1836-1840 - Centennial celebrations
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.
Great Trek, 1836-1840 - Centennial celebrations
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.
Great Trek, 1836-1840 - Centennial celebrations
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 portrait of four seated men, with two standing behind them
Head and shoulder portrait of an unidentified woman wearing a hat and a fur stole
Head and shoulder portrait views of "Mary"
Karoo Garden, Cradock 1934
Karoo Garden, Cradock 1934
Lidbetter - Self portrait
Market Square, Cradock, 2 April 1904
Glass negative : View of wagons on Market Square, Cradock, 2 April 1904, with the Dutch Reformed Church in the background.
Men and officers of the Midland Regiment lined up, and departing for war on 21 September 1940
Opening gala of the Warmbath, Cradock on 16 December 1930
Pantomime cast dressed as African warriors