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 : Set of 7 negatives: Seven views of the opening speeches and ceremonies for the new waterworks, Cradock, 16 May 1928. -
Glass negative : Set of 7 negatives: Seven views of the opening speeches and ceremonies for the new waterworks, Cradock, 16 May 1928. -
Glass negative : Set of 7 negatives: Seven views of the opening speeches and ceremonies for the new waterworks, Cradock, 16 May 1928. -
Glass negative : Set of 8 negatives: Eight views of the Rocklands Fête, Cradock 1 May 1929, showing schoolgirls dancing around a may pole, doing dances in costume, and rhythmic gymnastics. -
Glass negative : Set of 8 negatives: Eight views of the Rocklands Fête, Cradock 1 May 1929, showing schoolgirls dancing around a may pole, doing dances in costume, and rhythmic gymnastics. -
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Glass negative : View of the Transport Camp, Cradock, 1900, showing tents and animals. -
Glass negative : View of the whites present, around the coffins of Olive Schreiner, her baby and her dog Nita, prior to the re-interment on Buffelskop, 13 August 1921. The negative is marked "Copyright. 7." -
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Glass negative : Set of 8 negatives: Eight views showing the speeches, races, diving and swimming at the opening gala of the Warmbath, Cradock on 16 December 1930. -
Glass negative : Set of 8 negatives: Eight views showing the speeches, races, diving and swimming at the opening gala of the Warmbath, Cradock on 16 December 1930. -
Glass negative : Set of 8 negatives: Eight views showing the speeches, races, diving and swimming at the opening gala of the Warmbath, Cradock on 16 December 1930. -
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Glass negative : View showing African washerwomen doing laundry at Warmbath, 1914. -
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 girls, Wayfarers and their two officers wearing uniform -
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