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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Glass negative : View of the crowd on Market Square, Cradock, for Queen Victoria's memorial service, 1901. -
Glass negative : Views of a crowd watching the fire at George H. Byrnes & Co., Saddlers and Harness makers, Cradock. -
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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 group of young boys, known as Cubs and Jeff (wearing a cap). They are sitting around fire in a camp outing -
A decorative arch, part of the town decorations to welcome the Governor on the occasion of the laying of the foundation stone of the chancel of the Cathedral of St Michael and St George, reads in Latin "Praetorem Andreae pueri Aidanique salutant, omnes Patronum te clamant urbis alumni." (St Andrew's and St Aidan's boys greet the Governor, and all the scholars of the city schools hail their patron) Smaller shields read "Religio" and "Scientia". (Religion and knowledge) -
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 Mrs Davies and two mothers demonstrating to Wayfarers on how to take care of infants. Probably one of infant/toddler progam run by missionary wives to educate African women -
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 Mrs Davies and two mothers demonstrating to Wayfarers on how to take care of infants. Probably one of infant/toddler progams run by missionary wives to educate African women -
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 group of people and two nurses standing infront of a dispensary or health clinic. They have probably come to collect medicine, or to get medical treatment -
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View of ten uniformed men in the arched gateway to the Drostdy, with the Drostdy itself visible behind them. -
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Drostdy barracks circa 1835 - 1842. -
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Glass negative : View of the Dutch Reformed Church taken from Steven's corner, showing the front of the building, Cradock, 19 September 1901. -
A late 19th-century sepia photograph capturing daily life in Grahamstown (now Makhanda). The scene features a horse-drawn carriage on the left, a woman with a child in a pram in the centre, and a mounted rider on the right. A prominent Victorian-style pillar postbox stands in the foreground. In the background, colonial buildings and a church with a bell cote are visible against the local hills. -
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3326 East London, South Africa 1:25000 sheet. Compiled and drawn in 1961 by the Trigonometric Survey Office. Magesterial districts as at November 1960. T.S.O. 404/977. (Saamgestel in 1960 en geteken in 1960 deur die Driehokesmatings Kantoor.) -
