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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Map of the Great Fish River Irrigation Board. C.H. Hughes, circle engineer; A.D. Lewis, Director of Irrigation. -
Glass negative : View of wagons on Market Square, Cradock, 2 April 1904, with the Dutch Reformed Church in the background. -
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Account books, cash books and a Women's Auxiliary Minute Book for Mossel Bay, for the period 1906-1931. -
Minute books, cash account books, and correspondence, covering the years 1888-1968, for the English, Dutch (Coloured) and Basuto churches. -
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 Miss Butler, a Wayfarer Officer wearing her uniform, 1929 -
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 Butler with Wayfarer officers wearing uniform, 15 March 1932 -
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 Mkwaza, an officer in charge of the Sunbeams. Sunbeams, a church group for young girls and boys, is a program for children to develop skills like camping, sports, personal health -
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 Mkwaza with Sunbeams camping. Sunbeams, a church group for young girls and boys, is a program for children to develop skills like camping, sports, personal health -
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 Mkwaza with Sunbeams camping. Sunbeams, a church group for young girls and boys, is a program for children to develop skills like camping, sports, personal health -
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 Patrick Duncan. Typescript: "Photograph of Mrs Patrick Duncan, snapped at the conference of the Girl Wayfarers's Association, held this week at Cape Town. Mrs Duncan, who is the Central President of the Wayfarers' Association, returned to South Africa a week or two ago from spending a year in Europe with her children -
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Palingkloof 3226AA. South Africa 1:50000 sheet. Air photography 1943. Field survey 1945. Drawn by the Trigonometric Survey in 1953. T.S.O. 200/1048. (Lugfotografie 1943. Veldopmeting 1945. Saamgestel en geteken in 1953 deur die Driehokesmatings Kantoor.) First edition -
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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 Mr A. Metcalf presenting a Pathfinder detachment flag to a group of older boys, representing Pathfinders. Standing next to him are Pathfinder officers and other people who have come to the presentation -
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 church group of young boys, known as Pathfinders in uniform, marching and bearing a flag at a Pathfinder camp -
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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 children dressed up for a nativity play -
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 press cutting relating to the Pathfinder award to be presented to Kecwere Raleru, an African boy, by Prince George, for showing bravery when he saved the lives of three people from a burning hut by dragging them out -
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