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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Glass negative : View of Dundas Street, Cradock, with an ox- team, September 1901. -
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Glass negative : Five views of speeches and festivities on the Coronation day of George VI, 12 May 1937, Cradock. -
Glass negative : Five views of speeches and festivities on the Coronation day of George VI, 12 May 1937, Cradock. -
Glass negative : Five views of speeches and festivities on the Coronation day of George VI, 12 May 1937, Cradock. -
Glass negative : Five views of speeches and festivities on the Coronation day of George VI, 12 May 1937, Cradock. -
Glass negative : Fourteen views of storm damage in Bree Street, Cradock, 5 March 1937, showing uprooted trees, buldozers clearing debris, and onlookers surveying the damage. -
Glass negative : Fourteen views of storm damage in Bree Street, Cradock, 5 March 1937, showing uprooted trees, buldozers clearing debris, and onlookers surveying the damage. -
Glass negative : Fourteen views of storm damage in Bree Street, Cradock, 5 March 1937, showing uprooted trees, buldozers clearing debris, and onlookers surveying the damage. -
Glass negative : Fourteen views of storm damage in Bree Street, Cradock, 5 March 1937, showing uprooted trees, buldozers clearing debris, and onlookers surveying the damage. -
Glass negative : Fourteen views of storm damage in Bree Street, Cradock, 5 March 1937, showing uprooted trees, buldozers clearing debris, and onlookers surveying the damage. -
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F G Butler (donor) -
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Glass negative : view of the Kruger wedding, showing the bride and her father, Cradock 1936. -
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Glass negative : Views of the new waterworks, Cradock, 22 April 1928. -
Glass negative : Views of the new waterworks, Cradock, 22 April 1928. -
Glass negative : Set of 7 negatives: Seven views of the opening speeches and ceremonies for the new waterworks, Cradock, 16 May 1928.