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 : Set of 5 negatives: Four views of a farm dam and one view of a [farm] house: River View, taken in January 1932. Possibly connected to the Hyam family of Cradock. -
Glass negative : Set of 5 negatives: Four views of a farm dam and one view of a [farm] house: River View, taken in January 1932. Possibly connected to the Hyam family of Cradock. -
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Glass negative : View of Cradock showing vegetable gardens in the foreground, Victorian houses and a church spire in the background. -
Glass negative : View of Cradock showing a tennis court, a back view of the Queen's Central Hospital, and houses in the background. -
Glass negative : View of Cradock, 1902, showing part of the Queen's Central Hospital, and houses in the background. -
Glass negative : View of Cradock showing houses taken from an elevated position. -
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Glass negative : View of Dundas Street, Cradock, with an ox- team, September 1901. -
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Glass negative : Five views of speeches and festivities on the Coronation day of George VI, 12 May 1937, Cradock. -
Glass negative : Five views of speeches and festivities on the Coronation day of George VI, 12 May 1937, Cradock. -
Glass negative : Five views of speeches and festivities on the Coronation day of George VI, 12 May 1937, Cradock. -
Glass negative : Five views of speeches and festivities on the Coronation day of George VI, 12 May 1937, Cradock. -
Glass negative : Fourteen views of storm damage in Bree Street, Cradock, 5 March 1937, showing uprooted trees, buldozers clearing debris, and onlookers surveying the damage.