Desmond Hobart Houghton (24 October 1906 – 1976) was born in Alice in the Eastern Cape, and educated at St. Andrew’s College, Grahamstown, Rhodes University College, Grahamstown, and Magdalen College, Oxford. Amongst his many achievements he is remembered for his Directorship of the Institute of Social and Economic Research, his active membership of the South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) and his membership of the University College of Fort Hare Council from 1954 – 1959. Professor Hobart Houghton taught Economics at Rhodes from 1933 to 1966 (but for the period 1939-1945), and thereafter, until 1973. During his forty years at Rhodes, Hobart Houghton made significant contributions to thinking about the economic problems of South Africa as a whole, but his particular concern, and the major focus of his research, was the problem of poverty and economic development in the Eastern Cape region, in which the University is situated. The country's economic problems, and those of the Eastern Cape in particular, are clearly no less pressing today than in the past.
Photograph showing views of the Devil's Peak from Wynberg Hill, Cape Town, 1891. The photograph was probably taken by someone who did a tour of Cape Town in 1891. Inscription: "To dear Ethel, from Joe, Xmas 1891"
Diagram of the farm Wilton, being a portion of the farm known as Hoffman's Kloof, granted under amended title to Henry Webb and Clement John Sneyd on the 26th day of July 1897, surveyed and beaconed by me according to regulations 19th July 1910. P. Coperman. In the Division of Albany, Field Cornetcy of Lower Riebeek.
This is the transcription of two diaries written by Ellen Case, wife of Rev. Philip Henry Case, describing their life in the service of the Anglican church from 1888-1894, while they were based at St Cuthbert's Mission near Tsolo, (1888-1889) and a year at Peddie in 1892. A volume containing copies of her letters home are also transcribed, as well as the account of a family holiday at Hluleka, Transkei coast, in 1902. The note books are in a fragile condition; they have been transcribed by her grandson, John James Case, who deposited the collection in Cory Library in December 2003, and the transcription in 2014.,Donated by John J. Case in 2014.
On 6th February 1838 the life of Piet Retief moved towards its great climax and death along with those of his entourage at the hands of Dingaan's warriors. Retief had gone to Umgungundlovu, Dingaan's kraal, to receive from Dingaan a cession of the land between the Tugela and the Umzimvubu Rivers. The grant of this land is said to have been made in a document dated Feb. 1838 but which circumstantial evidence suggests might have been signed on the 6 Feb. The document which has been regarded by some as a sort of title deed to Natal is an enigma which Retief has bequeathed to historians.
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 group of people and two nurses standing infront of a dispensary or health clinic. They have probably come to collect medicine, or to get medical treatment
