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Butler Family Collection

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Title: Butler Family Collection
Alternative Title: Butler Family Photograph Collection
Description: 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
Genre: Photographs; Personal correspondence
Subject: Butler Family

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African clergyman James Arthur Calata with Mrs E C Butler and Wayfarer officers
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 E.C. (Alice Eyre) Butler with Wayfarer officers and Rev. James Arthur Calata
African clergyman James Arthur Calata with Mrs E.C. Butler and other women
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 Mrs E.C. (Alice Eyre) Butler with Wayfarer officers and Rev. James Arthur Calata
Alice Butler
Alice Eyre Butler (Stringer) was the wife of Ernest Collett Butler. They were the parents of Guy Butler, Joan Butler, Dorothy Butler, Christine Moys Butler and Jeffrey Butler.
Ambulance jeep evacuating casualties from First City/Cape Town Highlanders, Italy, October 1944
An unknown child sitting
Army man
Arrival of wounded at a hospital
Arthur, Lynne and Rex Butler
Arthur, Lynne and Rex Butler
Award of honorary D.Litt to Frederick Guy Butler by the University of Natal, 1970
B B Burnett
B B Burnett on Rag float, 1938
Back Dorothy, sitting left Grace Butler, Una Shingler (nee Florence)
Back Rog Hudson, Douglas, Evelyn and Charles Butler, front Dorothy Hudson and Emma Butler
Barbara Wallace
Bill Fielding and Alan Solomon, desert near Cairo, 1944
Boer War - offloading wounded soldier at hospital, Feb 1900
Bust of Guy Butler
Butler, 1936
Canterbury (street across), Grahamstown
Cecily Butler
Cecily, Lynne and Kingsley Butler
Charles and Douglas with Rex, Arthur and Lynne Butler
Charles and Emma Butler
Charles and Emma Butler