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Algoa Bay area, including Port Elizabeth

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Title: Algoa Bay area, including Port Elizabeth
Alternative Title: Port Elizabeth and Algoa Bay Historical Images
Creator: Various photographers and artists
Description: The Algoa Bay area, including Port Elizabeth item set is a digitised collection of historical images and visual resources documenting the coastal region of Algoa Bay in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, with a particular focus on Port Elizabeth (today Gqeberha) and its early development. The set includes seventeen images, such as photographs and historical sketches, featuring landmarks including the South Jetty at Port Elizabeth, early town scenes, the Pearson Conservatory in St. George’s Park, Market Square, the Donkin Reserve lighthouse and monument, and views of the bay and surrounding areas. These items are part of the Frontier Collection of the Cory Library and Historical Archives, illustrating aspects of settler town growth, urban development, coastal infrastructure, and daily life in Port Elizabeth in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The collection supports research in urban history, colonial settlement, maritime infrastructure, and regional geography.
Provenance: Original images and sketches held by the Cory Library and Historical Archives, Rhodes University
Type: Still images; Photographs; Sketches
Genre: Historical images; Visual documentation
Subject: Port Elizabeth (South Africa) — History; Algoa Bay (South Africa) — Topography and views; Urban development — Eastern Cape; Coastal infrastructure — South Africa; Historical photographs — South Africa
Temporal Coverage: Nineteenth to early twentieth century
Format: Digital images
Is Part Of: The Frontier Collection
Spatial Coverage: Algoa Bay; Port Elizabeth (Gqeberha); Eastern Cape; South Africa; Cape Colony

Hierarchies: The Frontier Collection
The 1820-Settlers (32 items)
The Frontier Wars (92 items)
The Development of Settler Towns (468 items)
Alice (40 items)
Bathurst (16 items)
Bedford (3 items)
Cathcart (5 items)
Cradock (200 items)
East London (22 items)
Grahamstown (91 items)
King William's Town (32 items)
Port Alfred (19 items)
Port Elizabeth (34 items)
Queenstown (6 items)

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Algoa Bay
Algoa Bay Port Elizabeth
Bullock waggon
Conservatory St Flowers Park
Conservatory St Flowers Park
Donkin Street, Port Elizabeth
Gamtoos River
Gamtoos River
Jetty Street, Port Elizabeth
Jetty, Port Elizabeth
Light house and monument Donkin Reserve Port Elizabeth
Main Street Port Elizabeth
Main Street, Port Elizabeth
Market Square Port Elizabeth
Morning Market, Port Elizabeth
North End Port Elizabeth
Ostrich farm near Port Elizabeth
Pearson Conservatory in St Georges Park, Port Elizabeth
Photograph of Walter Workman in Port Elizabeth
Photograph of Walter Workman (possibly wearing a military uniform) standing in the garden of 42 Gordon Terrace, Port Elizabeth, in 1940.
Port Elizabeth
Port Elizabeth
Port Elizabeth from the Bay
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 the early days
Photograph of a sketch showing Port Elizabeth from the west bank of the Baakens River.