The Development of Settler Towns
Item set
- Alternative Title
- Eastern Cape Settler Towns Historical Collection
- Description
- The Development of Settler Towns is a major digitised archival collection from the Cory Library and Historical Archives at Rhodes University, forming part of The Frontier Collection. It brings together nearly 468 digitised resources documenting the historical emergence, expansion, and material culture of settler towns across the Eastern Cape, South Africa during the colonial and frontier period. The collection includes sub-sets on towns such as Alice, Bathurst, Bedford, Cathcart, Cradock, East London, Grahamstown, King William’s Town, Port Alfred, Port Elizabeth, Queenstown and others, illustrating a range of urban development patterns, community activities, built environments, maps, plans, and visual materials that reflect the social, economic, and geographic histories of these settlements. As an overarching thematic grouping within the Cory Library’s frontier history holdings, this item set supports comparative and place-based research into settler town origins, colonial infrastructure, demographic change, and regional interactions in the Eastern Cape.
- Language
- English
- Type
- Collection
- Spatial Coverage
- Eastern Cape, South Africa (multiple towns)
- Temporal Coverage
- Primarily 19th – early 20th century
- Format
- Digital images
- Maps
Items
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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 the division of East London, British Kaffraria, taken from general plans framed by D. Macdonald, A. E. Murray, E.T. Cooper, H.E.R. Bright, J.X. Merriman, J. Powell, E. Griffiths, W.D. Dumbleton, C. Watermeyer, H. Bryant, Lieutenant Colley, C.A. Smith and C.J. Gray, Government Surveyors; Compiled by C. Neumann Thomas, Surveyor General's Office, Cape Town, 1867. Scale 1" = 4000 Cape Roods. 1 sheet 30" x 72". Showing Field Cornetcy areas and Leased Lots. -
Plan shewing military defences of King Williams Town; [by] Geo. Newey. -
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A sepia-toned group portrait of postal workers standing in front of the Grahamstown Post Office. The building features four prominent windows with decorative pediments on the upper floor and a large, striped corrugated-iron awning (veranda) over the ground-floor entrance. A diverse group of men in period attire, likely including postmen and administrative staff, are posed for the photograph. -
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A photograph album compiled by Mary Butler, containing photographs of Wayfarers, Sunbeams and Pathfinders, mostly in Cradock. Two newspaper clippings and a handwritten concert programme included. There are three photographs of Rev. James Arthur Calata's young daughters, and he himself is included in two photographs. This photograph showing children dressed up for a nativity play -
A photograph album compiled by Mary Butler, containing photographs of Wayfarers, Sunbeams and Pathfinders, mostly in Cradock. Two newspaper clippings and a handwritten concert programme included. There are three photographs of Rev. James Arthur Calata's young daughters, and he himself is included in two photographs. This press cutting relating to the Pathfinder award to be presented to Kecwere Raleru, an African boy, by Prince George, for showing bravery when he saved the lives of three people from a burning hut by dragging them out -
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A photograph album compiled by Mary Butler, containing photographs of Wayfarers, Sunbeams and Pathfinders, mostly in Cradock. Two newspaper clippings and a handwritten concert programme included. There are three photographs of Rev. James Arthur Calata's young daughters, and he himself is included in two photographs. This photograph showing a handwritten programme for Pathfinders and Wayfarer's concert at St Peters' Mission -
A photograph album compiled by Mary Butler, containing photographs of Wayfarers, Sunbeams and Pathfinders, mostly in Cradock. Two newspaper clippings and a handwritten concert programme included. There are three photographs of Rev. James Arthur Calata's young daughters, and he himself is included in two photographs. This photograph showing a handwritten programme for Pathfinders and Wayfarer's concert at St Peters' Mission -
Proposed bathing Pavilion for Port Alfred Municipality. -
Proposed buildings on Block no 2968 Port Alfred for F.H. Schoeder, Esqr.