Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Item set
- Alternative Title
- Cradock, Cape Colony
- Description
- The Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa collection is a substantial digitised archival resource from the Cory Library and Historical Archives at Rhodes University documenting the history and material culture of Cradock, a key town in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. This collection forms part of The Frontier Collection—specifically under The Development of Settler Towns—and includes approximately 197 digitised items comprising historical photographs, maps, plans, engravings, and manuscript images that capture a wide range of social, economic, and built environments in Cradock’s past. The collection contains visual records of early town plans, colonial-era illustrations such as a drawing of an ox-wagon ascending Cradock Pass, scenes of historic events like the aftermath of the Victoria Hotel fire (1904), photographs of local businesses and railway engines, community activities and groups (including Pathfinders and Wayfarers), and mission and church life at St James Mission. These items document urban development, infrastructure, community life, religious and social organisations, and transportation history in Cradock from the 19th century through the early 20th century.
- Language
- English
- Subject
- Cradock (South Africa) -- photographs
- Pathfinders
- Wayfarers
- St James Mission
- Cradock Pass, Eastern Cape, South Africa
- Victoria Hotel (Cradock) -- Fire
- Eastern Cape -- History
- Settler towns, South Africa
- Spatial Coverage
- Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa
- Temporal Coverage
- Primarily 19th–early 20th century
- Format
- Digital images
- Plans
- Maps
Items
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An iconic engraving by Charles Michell of an ox-wagon ascending Cradock Pass, Outeniqua Mountains, Cape. 1840. Michell, a Surveyor and Road Builder used this image to illustrate the dangerous ascent. This image has captured the imagination of South Africans for many generations -
A general plan of Cradock taken from the plans of surveyors Aling, Chiappini and Rorders by F.H. Hopley, 1851? Manuscript copy of original. -
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 and older boys, Pathfinders, wearing uniform and performing a folk dance -
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 shows a group of young and older boys, Pathfinders, wearing uniform and performing a folk dance -
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 woman wearing a veil, her face is smeared with clay -
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 Mrs E.C. (Alice Eyre) Butler with Wayfarer officers and Rev. James Arthur Calata -
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 E.C. (Alice Eyre) Butler with Wayfarer officers and Rev. James Arthur Calata -
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 Mrs E.C. (Alice Eyre) Butler with Wayfarer officers and Rev. James Arthur Calata -
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Glass negative : View of the aftermath of the Victoria Hotel fire, Cradock, July 1904. -
Glass negative : View of Allan & Coleman, General Dealers, Cradock, circa 1906, showing the front view of the shop. -
Glass negative : View of the rear of Allan & Coleman, General Dealers, Cradock, circa 1906, showing agricultural implements and carriages. -
Glass negative : Five views taken in April/May 1935, showing: the silver jubilee celebrations in the Park, Cradock, on 6 May 1935; a view of Cradock from the veld; a steam engine pulling a train into the station; an unidentified man standing in the veld. -
Large spread of Mesembryanthemum protected by roadside fences. Does not survive outside fences. -
Large spread of Mesembryanthemum protected by roadside fences. Does not survive outside fences. -
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Glass negative : Views of the interior of Butler Bros., booksellers, stationers and importers, Cradock, possibly showing flood damage as the pictures show great confusion and mess. -
Glass negative : Views of the interior of Butler Bros., booksellers, stationers and importers, Cradock, possibly showing flood damage as the pictures show great confusion and mess. -
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Glass negative : View of the celebration of Mafeking Day in Cradock, after the lifting of the Siege of Mafeking on 17 May 1900. Original holding envelope marked "Taken from G. B.'s roof". -
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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 choir consisting of young African girls at St James Mission in Cradock, Eastern Cape. Rev James Arthur Calata was the priest-in-charge of St James Anglican Mission Church and also school mananager of the St James Mission School. He had deep interest in the education of an African child. Amongst the things he did for the mission school was to re-create it into a social sphere of transformation, and established a church choir -
Album of "Photographs of South Africa", compiler and photographer not stated. Photos covering Easter and Western Cape, Natal, Free State, Rivers, Transport, Ostriches and Black people. [1880-1883],Gold Fields of South Africa Ltd. (donor) -
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Glass negative : Views of the Cradock Bowling Green showing people seated outside the club house, taken in 1944.