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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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Douglas Butler under the shade
Drawing of Salem
This image is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.,F G Butler (donor)
Elizabeth's wedding
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 an African wedding ceremony infront of a church, bride and groom with the entourage
Elsie's wedding
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 an African wedding ceremony, bride and groom led by the priest and two young boys wearing church outfit, probably alter servers
Emma Butler at the back, 2nd from left, and other unidentified people
Emma Butler holding Joe, with the children Grace, Harold and Douglas
Emma Butler seated with adults
Emma, Harold, Douglas and Charles Butler
Esther James nee Trollip: eldest daughter of Joseph Trollip
European women Wayfarers
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 three European women Wafarer Officers carrying flower bouquet
Evelyn and Arthur Butler
Evelyn and Douglas Butler
Evelyn and Douglas Butler with Rex, Lynne and Arthur
Evelyn and Douglas with Arthur
Evelyn Butler with a child
Evelyn Butler's mother with child
Evelyn with Arthur and Rex Butler
FGB (Frederick Guy Butler) and Francis Farmer, 1937
Fish River - Cradock, 1893
Floweday family, Ted in sailor suit, ca. 1910
Founders race, 1937
Four children standing
Francis Farmer, 1938
Francis Farmer, Kowie 1937
Frederick Guy Butler (FGB), 1937