Cory Library and Historical Archives

Items

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  Northen entrance to Grahamstown Botanical Gardens

  Array of alien palms and indigenous aloes. etc. The gardens were established in 1853.
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  Notice over entrance 3 to the Selmar Schonland Herbarium at the Albany Museum, Grahamstown

  The new name was given in honour of Dr. Selmar Schonland, former Director of the Museum and Keeper of the Herbarium, when Rhodes University Herbarium was merged with the Albany Museum Herbarium in 1990's.
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  Old Deanery chambers, High Street

  View of the Old Deanery and the Diocesan office in High Street, on the site of the current St. George's Chambers.
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  Old E.D court Grahamstown built in 1834 as a commercial hall

  Eastern Districts court.
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  Old house on Prince Alfred Street
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  Old Military hospital, where parliament met in 1864

  The courtyard within the old Military Hospital and part of the verandah surrounding it. This building was known for many years as the Schonland Botanical Laboratory and today still forms part of the Botany Department of Rhodes University.
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  Old Mill in George Street

  Painting showing the Old Mill on the corner of George and Market Streets, and on the left corner, the home of Mr George Wood, first Mayor of Grahamstown. The small cart was used to carry Miss Josie Wood (founder of the South African Library for the Blind) to school.
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  Old Street scene in High Street, Grahamstown, looking south

  View showing the south side of upper High Street, from "Charles Pote's Auction Rooms" on the corner of Hill Street, as far as Hayton's Building. Trees, an ox wagon and people obscure the buildings.
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  Old Street scene in High Street, Grahamstown, looking south

  View showing the south side of upper High Street, from "Charles Pote's Auction Rooms" on the corner of Hill Street, as far as Hayton's Building. Trees, an ox wagon and people obscure the buildings.
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  Opening of Parliament in Grahamstown 1864

  Showing the opening of the only Parliamentary session ever held away from Cape Town.
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  Parliament being opened by Sir P. Wodehouse in Shaw Hall, 1864

  Showing the opening of the only Parliamentary session ever held away from Cape Town.
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  Plan of Grahamstown in 1814

  Copy made by Sir George Cory in 1904 of a plan of Grahamstown dated 1814.
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  Post Office

  A sepia-toned group portrait of postal workers standing in front of the Grahamstown Post Office. The building features four prominent windows with decorative pediments on the upper floor and a large, striped corrugated-iron awning (veranda) over the ground-floor entrance. A diverse group of men in period attire, likely including postmen and administrative staff, are posed for the photograph.
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  Postcard of Upper House, St Andrews College, Grahamstown
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  Provost Tower (Military Prison)
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  Provost Tower back view
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  Provost Tower back view
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  Provost Tower inside view
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  Race course, possibly Grahamstown, South Africa

  Although an inscription on the mount describes this as 'Grand stand, King William's Town', the building in question is however identical to that in a photograph by F.W. Hepburn of a race meeting in Grahamstown, taken in 1864, and held in the van der Riet collection at Cory Library.
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  Railway station, Grahamstown

  Post from Mark Finnigan in Grahamstown History Facebook group: "Grahamstown Railway Station. Postcard by J. C. Juta & Co. of Grahamstown. Posted to Krom River Siding in 1908."
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  Reception of Sir Henry Loch at the Drostdy, Grahamstown, 1890.

  The verso of the photograph has a note which reads: 'Reception of Sir Henry Loch, KCB GCMG at the Drostdy, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa, Tuesday 28th January 1890.' He was in Grahamstown for the laying of the chancel foundation stone of the Cathedral of St Michael and St George.
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  Rev Shaw's first chapel in Chapel street
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  Selling water in Market Square, The Pump scene

  This painting by Frederick I’Ons is sometimes called ‘The Pump scene’, and shows the well which used to be sited at the junction of High and Bathurst Street – not Market Square as mentioned in the title. The double storey building in the background made way for the Commemoration Church in later years.
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  Selmar Schonland Herbarium, Albany Museum, Grahamstown

  Display Sister Jeannie's flower paintings in foyer. A gift from Sisters of the Community of the Resurrection, per kind favour, the Curator, Tony Dold. (the white spot is a light reflection).
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  Selmar Schonland Herbarium, Albany Museum, Grahamstown

  Three examples of Mary Elizabeth Barber's flower paintings. All stapelias. By kind permission the Curator, Mr. T. Dold