Butler Family Collection
Item set
- Title
- Butler Family Collection
- Alternative Title
- Butler Family Photograph Collection
- Description
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The Butler Family Collection (also known as the Butler Family Photograph Collection) is a digital archive curated by the Cory Library and Historical Archives. It consists of 346 items, primarily photographs and related ephemera.
The collection provides a visual record of the Butler family and their social circles, including significant historical and cultural markers in the Eastern Cape. Highlights of the collection include:
* Family History: Portraits, wedding photos (such as the 1920 wedding of Harold Butler and Ruth Brown), and candid images of children and relatives.
* Community & Organisations: Documentation of youth movements like the Wayfarers, Sunbeams, and Pathfinders in Cradock during the 1930s.
*Historical Landscapes: Photographs of regional landmarks, such as the Karel Landman Monument in the Sundays River Valley and views of the Fish River.
* Social Documentation: The collection includes photograph albums compiled by Mary Butler, featuring figures like Rev. James Arthur Calata. - Language
- English
- Provenance
- F G Butler (Donor)
- Type
- Collection
- Subject
- Butler Family
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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 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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Norman Coombs and an example of the dry-stone packing which Bain used to build his many passes. The picture was taken in Pluto's Vale, one of Bains' contraptions in the Eastern Cape. -
Norman Coombs and an example of the dry-stone packing which Bain used to build his many passes. -
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F G Butler (donor) -
F G Butler (donor) -
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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