Algoa Bay area, including Port Elizabeth
Item set
- Alternative Title
- Port Elizabeth and Algoa Bay Historical Images
- 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
- 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
- Hierarchies
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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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Port Elizabeth in the early days -
Port Elizabeth looking South -
Port Elizabeth showing the first jetty, 1840 Photograph of a sketch by H.W. Piers showing Port Elizabeth in May 1842. -
South End, Port Elizabeth -
South jetty Port Elizabeth -
South jetty Port Elizabeth -
Town Hall, Port Elizabeth -
Van Staadens Pass -
Van Staadens Waterfall