C.J. Skead Photograph Collection
Item set
- Title
- C.J. Skead Photograph Collection
- Creator
- Skead, C. J. (Cuthbert John)
- Description
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The Jack (Cuthbert John) Skead Collection comprises a substantial body of photographic material that documents the natural environments, vegetation types, and ecological habitats of the Eastern Cape and the wider southern African region. The photographs—taken over several decades—capture landscapes, plant communities, wetlands, forests, grasslands, and other habitat formations that were central to Skead’s extensive research interests. Many images also document environmental change, land use patterns, and field sites associated with his ornithological and botanical studies.
The collection provides a valuable visual record for researchers working in the fields of environmental history, ecology, biogeography, conservation, and Eastern Cape natural heritage. The photographs complement Skead’s published and unpublished work held at Cory Library, including field notes, correspondence, and research manuscripts. - Language
- English
- Provenance
- Materials received from the Skead Family.
- Type
- Collection
- Genre
- Photographs
- Subject
- South Africa--Addo Elephant National Park
- Addo Elephant National Park (South Africa)
- Natual history -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Vegetation -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Habitats -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Ecology -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Landscape photography -- South Africa
- Photograph collections
- Environmental change -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Biogeography -- South Africa
- Eastern Cape (South Africa) -- Photographs
- Albany District (South Africa) -- Photographs
- Skead, C. J. (Cuthbert John), 1912–2006
Items
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Massed flowering of Secamone through and over a bush. -
Hypoestes aristata. Small portion of a fine bank along roadside for about 10m. In very good flower. Colour too pale in picture -
Chasmanthe aethiopica in long roadside grass. Hypoestes aristata in top righthand corner. -
Chasmanthe aethiopica in long roadside grass. -
In front a patch of Hypoestes aristata in good blossom but colour in picture a little too pale. Canary creeper Senecio angulatus creeping over bush in the background. -
Canary creeper Senecio angulatus in full flower. Creeping over other bushes. -
Spread of Zantedeschia aethiopica in damp hollow between pine plantations. Buttresses of southern Hogsback peak in distance. -
Vlei lilies in splendid flower in the Bantu territory surrounded by short heavily-grazed sheepveld. The vleis are very shallow and only fill after good rains. -
Vlei lilies in splendid flower in the Bantu territory surrounded by short heavily-grazed sheepveld. The vleis are very shallow and only fill after good rains. -
Pure white Crinum campanulatum. One of many such vleis with these Crinums now in flower, some with pink flowers only, some with mixed white and pink. Others had only white flowers. -
Single patch of Geranium incanum at roadside of Seaview road at Bushy Park, Port Elizabeth. Other larger patches nearby. Good season. -
A fine patch of Erica chloroloma. A similar stretch of this Erica was elsewhere along this road. -
Metalasia muricata in full flower (White). -
Metalasia muricata in the red phase before fully opening to the white stage. -
Exceptionally dense flowering of Leonotis leonurus in an exceptionally good season. -
A fine patch of Erica chloroloma. A similar stretch of this Erica was elsewhere along this road. -
Erica chloroloma in a good year. Not usually seen in this fine state. Another such stretch is out of the picture. -
Erica chloroloma , good specimen in a good season. Normally plants are smaller & less floriferous. -
Erica chloroloma, tall specimen in a good season. Plants usually much smaller & in poorer flower. -
Good stand of Leonotis leonurus at roadside in an exceptionally good season. -
Good stand of Leonotis leonurus at roadside. Plants now particularly good in a good season. -
Chrysanthemoides monilifera in full flower at dune edge, many more the same. -
Extensive hedge of flowering Acacia karroo. Helen Vanderplank collecting samples for painting. -
Another group of seven white milkwoods. -
Another view of neg. BP13 showing westward extension of the white milkwood hedge.