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Sir George Cory Lantern Slide Collection

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Title: Sir George Cory Lantern Slide Collection
Alternative Title: George Cory Lantern Slides
Creator: Cory, George
Description: The George Cory Magic Lantern Slide collection is part of Sir George Cory’s large and varied research collection that he donated to Rhodes University Library. Sir George Cory (one of the four founding fathers of Rhodes University) had these slides made to accompany his public lectures, on Eastern Cape history and the 1820 Settlers. There are 270 lantern glass slides altogether, and some of the places included are Grahamstown, Graaff Reinet, Port Elizabeth, Bathurst, and Port Alfred, as well as many of the frontier forts. The slides illustrate life in the early days of the Eastern Cape.
Language: English
Type: Collection
Genre: Image albums

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Gaika's (sic) Grave
Gardens, Grahamstown
Genealogy of Xhosa Chiefs
Governor Cornelis Jacobus van de Graaff, 1734-1812, and his wife Reinet
Head and shoulders portraits of Governor Cornelis Jacobus van der Graaf and his wife Reinet, from the picture in the Town House, Graaff Reinet,Van de Graaff was Governor of the Cape from 1785 -1791. Photograph of painting in the Town Hall, Graaff-Reinet with the following inscription: Cornelis Jacobus v.d. Graaf - Reinett v.d. Graaf (Governor Cape Colony) 1791 [the correct spelling is van de Graaff].
Governor J.W. Janssens
Governor J.W. Janssens: Appointed Governor of the Cape Colony during the rule of the Batavian Republic, 1803-1805.
Governor J.W. Janssens interviewing Xhosa Chief
Governor Janssens meeting Chief Ngqika on the Kat River, 1803.
Governor's Kop tower
This mountain known as Tsoie by the Xhosa people in the Eastern Cape, is in the Mankazana Valley. Named in honour of Sir Harry Smith, who was Acting Governor at the time he climbed it.
Graaff Reinet
Graaff Reinet from the mountain
Graaff Reinet. ca.1910. Aerial view
Graaff Reinet, Midland Province
Grahamstown
Grahamstown Cathedral 1962
Added to the lantern slide collection by Dr Charles GE Cory, son of Sir George Cory.
Grahamstown Cathedral from Church Square 1900
Ox wagons and oxen teams in the foreground.
Grahamstown High Street 1962
Added to the lantern slide collection by Dr Charles GE Cory, son of Sir George Cory.
Grahamstown in 1824 looking north from Fort Selwyn
Grahamstown location looking east (sic - see note),Drostdy Arch from the Drostdy
View of the Drostdy Arch from the Drostdy, looking east.
Group of women and children
Group of women and children
High Street looking west from the station
High Street looking west from the station
High Street, Grahamstown
High Street, looking east. Troops on parade
Hill Street looking north from top of St. George's Church tower
Hog's Back Mountain
Intaba-ka-Indoda
Debe Nek and Ntaba kaNdoda. Site of the Battle of Amalinda.