The Development of Settler Towns

Item set

Title
The Development of Settler Towns
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
Subject
Settler towns
Eastern Cape -- History
Colonial urban development
Frontier history
Spatial Coverage
Eastern Cape, South Africa (multiple towns)
Temporal Coverage
Primarily 19th – early 20th century
Format
Digital images
Maps

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