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 : Four views of General Jan Smuts on a visit to Cradock, 10 November 1932: three showing him mounted and one in which he is pinning a medal onto an unknown man. A fifth negative is a copy of a photo showing Smuts and two other men taken during the South African War, 1899-1902 -
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A historical landscape photograph of Grahamstown, described in the caption as one of the leading ecclesiastical and educational centres in South Africa. The view shows the Anglican Cathedral, designed by Sir Gilbert Scott, standing on high ground in the centre of the city. The Grand Hotel is visible to the right. The city is noted for being situated in an amphitheatre of wooded hills. -
Varied vegetation. Gardens date from 1853. -
Added to the lantern slide collection by Dr Charles GE Cory, son of Sir George Cory. -
Ox wagons and oxen teams in the foreground. -
Close-up of first flowering vlei lilies, Crinum campanulatum. Planted there in 1960's by Lou Mullins. -
Added to the lantern slide collection by Dr Charles GE Cory, son of Sir George Cory. -
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Grahamstown Ladies Hockey Club on Tour 1923, On tour – 1923, Team photograph with hockey players wearing dark skirts and white shirts, striped caps on their heads, Group photograph, Black and white photograph, Outdoor photograph, Standing hockey players holding hockey sticks, Back Row: J. Milroy, I. Keey, Mr. Sherman, D. Wallace, P. Greenway, D. Wallace, Middle Row: J. Brook, E. Wallace, M. Style, Front Row: L. Milroy, K. Wetr (Captain), D. Keey. -
View of the Drostdy Arch from the Drostdy, looking east. -
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A wide-angle landscape photograph looking down a dirt-paved High Street in Grahamstown. In the foreground, a large span of oxen is harnessed to a covered transport wagon with several attendants standing nearby. The background features the spire of the Cathedral of St. Michael and St. George and various colonial-era buildings against the hills. -
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Glass negative : Twenty five views of unidentified individuals and crowds, some dressed in Voortrekker clothing, attending a service, and posing with ox wagons and carriages. -
Glass negative : Twenty five views of unidentified individuals and crowds, some dressed in Voortrekker clothing, attending a service, and posing with ox wagons and carriages. -
Glass negative : Twenty five views of unidentified individuals and crowds, some dressed in Voortrekker clothing, attending a service, and posing with ox wagons and carriages. -
Glass negative : Twenty five views of unidentified individuals and crowds, some dressed in Voortrekker clothing, attending a service, and posing with ox wagons and carriages. -
Glass negative : Twenty five views of unidentified individuals and crowds, some dressed in Voortrekker clothing, attending a service, and posing with ox wagons and carriages. -
Glass negative : Twenty five views of unidentified individuals and crowds, some dressed in Voortrekker clothing, attending a service, and posing with ox wagons and carriages. -
Glass negative : Twenty five views of unidentified individuals and crowds, some dressed in Voortrekker clothing, attending a service, and posing with ox wagons and carriages. -
Group photograph : members of the twenty-first annual Conference of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa held in Queenstown, 1903. Photographer : H T Healey -
