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Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa

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Title: Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa
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

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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General Jan Smuts on a visit to Cradock, 10 November 1932
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
Grace and Dot, Cradock, 1922
Grahamstown Flats at the White Gate, Cradock Road, Burntkraal camp
Close-up of first flowering vlei lilies, Crinum campanulatum. Planted there in 1960's by Lou Mullins.
Grave of 'Helen Stirling Cotton, who died 20-2-1937, wife of William Walpole Lidbetter'
Great Trek, 1836-1840 - Centennial celebrations
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.
Great Trek, 1836-1840 - Centennial celebrations
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.
Great Trek, 1836-1840 - Centennial celebrations
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.
Great Trek, 1836-1840 - Centennial celebrations
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.
Great Trek, 1836-1840 - Centennial celebrations
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.
Great Trek, 1836-1840 - Centennial celebrations
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.
Great Trek, 1836-1840 - Centennial celebrations
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 portrait of four seated men, with two standing behind them
Head and shoulder portrait views of "Mary"
In the vlei at White Gate, Cradock Road
First flowering Vlei Lilies, Crinum campanulatum. The lilies were brought there from another vlei on the Burntkraal flats, by Mrs. Lou Mullins in 1960's.
James Arthur Calata's daughter
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 one of James Arthur Calata's daughters sitting on the stoep reading a book
James Arthur Calata's daughter
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 one of James Arthur Calata's daughters standing on the stoep. J.A. Calata had three daughters, namely, Nontsikelelo, Noluthando and Vuyiseka (born in 1922)
James Arthur Calata's three daughters
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 James Arthur Calata's three daughters standing next to a house. J.A. Calata had three daughters, namely, Nontsikelelo, Noluthando and Vuyiseka (born in 1922)
James Arthur Calata's three daughters
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 James Arthur Calata's three daughters sitting on the stoep, probably their house. They are probably looking at photographs or reading letters. J.A. Calata had three daughters, namely, Nontsikelelo, Noluthando and Vuyiseka (born in 1922)
Joan, Guy, Christine and Dorothy Butler in their grandparents' garden at 63 Bree Street, Cradock, 1923
Joyce Brown - a Wayfarer Officer
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 Joyce Brown, a Wayfarer Officer wearing her uniform, 1929
Karoo Garden, Cradock 1934
Karoo Garden, Cradock 1934
Kimberley coach, Cradock
Kindergarden School in Cradock before 1908
Looking south over desecrated Swartkops River valley towards the old Cradock Place (Papenkuilsfontein) from kwaMagxaki Hill
Nice houses in centre photo overlooking urban sprawl beyond. Bethelsdorp Saltpan near top of photo, thinned out original veld in foreground in which Sanseviera plants thrive. More good type homes behind photographer.