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Photograph of a hillside dotted with several trees. An approaching storm can be seen in the background.

General Jan Smuts on a visit to Cradock, 10 November 1932

Glass negative : Four views of General Jan Smuts on a visit to Cradock, 10 November 1932: three showing him mounted and one in which he is pinning a medal onto an unknown man. A fifth negative is a copy of a photo showing Smuts and two other men taken during the South African War, 1899-1902

General plan : comprising the following farms, resurveyed under the provisions of the Land Beacons Act situate in the Fd. Cy. of Assegaai Bush, Division of Albany and having the dimensions and relative positions quoted below and shown in the drawing, the co-ordinates being reckoned from the Reference Stone Market Square, Grahamstown, and the bearings being from parallels to the meridian of Driver's Hill [127.56 N. 4262.22 E.] as given by Capt Bailey in his coast survey

Farms: Carel's Rust, Springvale or Zuur Kloof, Procter's Fontein, Assegaai Bush, J.D.P. Francis' Farm, Komga. Granted 1833-1835.

General plan of East London harbour, South Africa

General plan of the South Eastern part of the district of Albany in the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope shewing the situation and exact boundaries of the lands allotted for the location of English Settlers as also towns, military and other establishments , personal grants of lands etc.

General plan of the triangulation of the southern part of the Cape Colony 1859.1862

General plan of the triangulation of the southern part of the Cape Colony 1859.1862. W. Bailey, Captain Royal Engineers, Superintendant Trigonometrical Survey, 21 January 1863. A rough diagram has been constructed for the purpose of shewing the relative positions of the beacons erected and permanent objects observed in the course of the Triangulation and its connection with the stations of Sir T MacLear in the measurement of an arc of meridian. The diagram is tolerably accurate.