Cory Library and Historical Archives

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• Defining our purposes and roles and meeting our challenges
• Demolition of Old Rhodes Theatre building, 1971
• Demolition of Old Rhodes Theatre, 1971
• Demolition of the Old Rhodes Theatre, 1971 (Rhodes Theatre was extended in 1973)
• Demonstration to Wayfarers by Mrs Davies
  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 Davies and two mothers demonstrating to Wayfarers on how to take care of infants. Probably one of infant/toddler progam run by missionary wives to educate African women
• Demonstration to Wayfarers by Mrs Davies
  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 Davies and two mothers demonstrating to Wayfarers on how to take care of infants. Probably one of infant/toddler progams run by missionary wives to educate African women
• Denis and Ruth Butler
• Denis and Ruth Butler at a beach
• Denis Butler
  Denis Ryall Butler: Denis was born in Kuruman in 1921. In 1928 he entered Kingswood College, Grahamstown where he matriculated in 1938. He studied for his BA at Rhodes from 1939 to 1942, and in May 1942, joined the South African and Royal Artillery. He was in action in the Italian Campaign and was mentioned in despatches. While still a student he met Dorothea Ferguson-Davie (Dee), and on embarkation leave they married on 5 July 1943. After Denis was demobilised in February 1946, he returned to Rhodes to complete his UED and attained honours in History. He joined the teaching staff of his beloved Kingswood College and taught English, History, Geography, Latin and developmental reading. He was housemaster at Kingswood for 21 years, overlapping as vice principal for ten years. He became headmaster in May 1974, and retired early in November 1978. He died in his sleep on Saturday February 7 2004. He is survived by his four children, eight grand-children and seven great-grandchildren . Denis Butler was the son of Harold and Ruth Butler, and Harold was the son of Charles and Emma Butler.
• Denis Butler
  Denis Ryall Butler: Denis was born in Kuruman in 1921. In 1928 he entered Kingswood College, Grahamstown where he matriculated in 1938. He studied for his BA at Rhodes from 1939 to 1942, and in May 1942, joined the South African and Royal Artillery. He was in action in the Italian Campaign and was mentioned in despatches. While still a student he met Dorothea Ferguson-Davie (Dee), and on embarkation leave they married on 5 July 1943. After Denis was demobilised in February 1946, he returned to Rhodes to complete his UED and attained honours in History. He joined the teaching staff of his beloved Kingswood College and taught English, History, Geography, Latin and developmental reading. He was housemaster at Kingswood for 21 years, overlapping as vice principal for ten years. He became headmaster in May 1974, and retired early in November 1978. He died in his sleep on Saturday February 7 2004. He is survived by his four children, eight grand-children and seven great-grandchildren . Denis Butler was the son of Harold and Ruth Butler, and Harold was the son of Charles and Emma Butler.
• Denis Butler (note the stoel)
  Denis Ryall Butler: Denis was born in Kuruman in 1921. In 1928 he entered Kingswood College, Grahamstown where he matriculated in 1938. He studied for his BA at Rhodes from 1939 to 1942, and in May 1942, joined the South African and Royal Artillery. He was in action in the Italian Campaign and was mentioned in despatches. While still a student he met Dorothea Ferguson-Davie (Dee), and on embarkation leave they married on 5 July 1943. After Denis was demobilised in February 1946, he returned to Rhodes to complete his UED and attained honours in History. He joined the teaching staff of his beloved Kingswood College and taught English, History, Geography, Latin and developmental reading. He was housemaster at Kingswood for 21 years, overlapping as vice principal for ten years. He became headmaster in May 1974, and retired early in November 1978. He died in his sleep on Saturday February 7 2004. He is survived by his four children, eight grand-children and seven great-grandchildren . Denis Butler was the son of Harold and Ruth Butler, and Harold was the son of Charles and Emma Butler.
• Denis Butler and an unidentified girl with hat
  Denis Ryall Butler: Denis was born in Kuruman in 1921. In 1928 he entered Kingswood College, Grahamstown where he matriculated in 1938. He studied for his BA at Rhodes from 1939 to 1942, and in May 1942, joined the South African and Royal Artillery. He was in action in the Italian Campaign and was mentioned in despatches. While still a student he met Dorothea Ferguson-Davie (Dee), and on embarkation leave they married on 5 July 1943. After Denis was demobilised in February 1946, he returned to Rhodes to complete his UED and attained honours in History. He joined the teaching staff of his beloved Kingswood College and taught English, History, Geography, Latin and developmental reading. He was housemaster at Kingswood for 21 years, overlapping as vice principal for ten years. He became headmaster in May 1974, and retired early in November 1978. He died in his sleep on Saturday February 7 2004. He is survived by his four children, eight grand-children and seven great-grandchildren . Denis Butler was the son of Harold and Ruth Butler, and Harold was the son of Charles and Emma Butler.
• Denis, an unidentified woman and Ruth Butler
  Denis Ryall Butler: Denis was born in Kuruman in 1921. In 1928 he entered Kingswood College, Grahamstown where he matriculated in 1938. He studied for his BA at Rhodes from 1939 to 1942, and in May 1942, joined the South African and Royal Artillery. He was in action in the Italian Campaign and was mentioned in despatches. While still a student he met Dorothea Ferguson-Davie (Dee), and on embarkation leave they married on 5 July 1943. After Denis was demobilised in February 1946, he returned to Rhodes to complete his UED and attained honours in History. He joined the teaching staff of his beloved Kingswood College and taught English, History, Geography, Latin and developmental reading. He was housemaster at Kingswood for 21 years, overlapping as vice principal for ten years. He became headmaster in May 1974, and retired early in November 1978. He died in his sleep on Saturday February 7 2004. He is survived by his four children, eight grand-children and seven great-grandchildren . Denis Butler was the son of Harold and Ruth Butler, and Harold was the son of Charles and Emma Butler.
• Departure after quarantine 1
• Departure after quarantine 2
• Departure after quarantine 3
• Departure after quarantine 4
• Departure after quarantine 5
• Departure after quarantine 6
• Departure from St. Paul's Cathedral
  Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee celebration 1897.
• Depositing Floor
• Derde Internationaal Avant Garde Jazz Festival
  Original program for "Derde Internationaal Avant Garde Jazz Festival".
• Desecrated Swartkops River Valley
  Once covered in mixed bush. The Vanderkemp Kloof gash in western escarpment at Bethelsdorp in right distance. Built-up area centrally. A remnant of natural veld in foreground, itself badly treated.
• Desecrated Swartkops River Valley
  Once covered in mixed bush. The Vanderkemp Kloof gash in western escarpment at Bethelsdorp in right distance. Built-up area centrally. A remnant of natural veld in foreground, itself badly treated.
• Desecration of Swartkops River valley looking south from kwaMagxaki hill over Korsten
  Centrally, with squatter-settlement (blue extreme left). Corner of Saltpan at extreme right top, with old Papenkuilsfontein (Cradock Place) beyond centre of photo. Good kwaMagxaki homes below littered with rubbish but with a small patch of pink-flowered Carpobrotus surviving in right bottom corner.