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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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 girls, Sunbeams, during St Andrews Day, 1930 -
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 is showing a church group of children, Sunbeams, with their officers during St Andrews Day camp, 1930 -
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 is showing a church group of young girls, Sunbeams during St Andrews Day, 1930 -
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 is showing a church group of young girls, Sunbeams during St Andrews Day, 1930 -
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 is showing a church group of young girls, Sunbeams during St Andrews Day, 1930 -
Glass negative : View showing the shop front of T. J. Roberts & Sons, general dealers and importers of drapery, opened in 1904. The negative is missing a small piece from the lower left corner. -
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Glass negative : View of the Town Guard shooting match with James Marburg, Easter 1900. -
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F G Butler (donor) -
Glass negative : View of a crowd surrounding an unidentified man and woman standing on an outdoor platform, with Union Jack flags hanging above them. A banner proclaiming 'Welkom' is in the background. -
Glass negative : Set of 5 negatives: Four views of a farm dam and one view of a [farm] house: River View, taken in January 1932. Possibly connected to the Hyam family of Cradock. -
Glass negative : Set of 5 negatives: Four views of a farm dam and one view of a [farm] house: River View, taken in January 1932. Possibly connected to the Hyam family of Cradock. -
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Glass negative : View of Cradock showing vegetable gardens in the foreground, Victorian houses and a church spire in the background. -
Glass negative : View of Cradock showing a tennis court, a back view of the Queen's Central Hospital, and houses in the background. -
Glass negative : View of Cradock, 1902, showing part of the Queen's Central Hospital, and houses in the background. -
Glass negative : View of Cradock showing houses taken from an elevated position. -
