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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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Plan of Grahamstown in 1814
Copy made by Sir George Cory in 1904 of a plan of Grahamstown dated 1814.
Plan of Keiskama river and Fort Wiltshire (sic)
Fort Willshire was built by the Royal Engineers under Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Willshire of the 38th Regiment, on the orders of Lord Charles Somerset, in 1819.
Plan of section of Fort Wiltshire (sic) as intended to have been completed
Fort Willshire was built by the Royal Engineers under Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Willshire of the 38th Regiment, on the orders of Lord Charles Somerset, in 1819.
Porch on south side of Chemistry Department
Port Elizabeth from the Donkin Reserve, 1840
Photograph of a sketch by H.W. Piers, showing Port Elizabeth houses, pier and ships in the bay in 1840 or 1842.
Port Elizabeth from the jetty, 1842
Port Elizabeth in 1822
Port Elizabeth in the early days
Photograph of a sketch showing Port Elizabeth from the west bank of the Baakens River.
Port Elizabeth in the early days
Port Elizabeth landing place, 1840
Port Elizabeth landing place, 1840
Port Elizabeth landing place, 1840
Port Elizabeth showing the first jetty, 1840
Photograph of a sketch by H.W. Piers showing Port Elizabeth in May 1842.
Port Frances (Port Alfred) looking towards old custom house
Post Office Stone used at Cape Town
Post Retief from distance
Prison in Graaff Reinet
Provost Tower (Military Prison)
Provost Tower back view
Provost Tower back view
Provost Tower inside view
Public buildings
Queen's Carriage (Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee 1897)
Queen's road near Grahamstown
Built from 1837-1842 by Andrew Geddes Bain, this highway connected Grahamstown with the military posts and forts established after the 6th Frontier War.
Queenstown