Valda Niehaus Collection

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Title
Valda Niehaus Collection
Alternative Title
Valda Niehaus Photographic Collection
Creator
Valda Niehaus (Photographer, Collector and Donor)
van Heusden, Valda
Description
The Valda Niehaus Collection is a visual archive of 73 digitised photographs and related materials, documenting scenes of social life, landscapes, and community activities associated with Grahamstown Teachers’ Training College (GTTC) and its local environs in the Eastern Cape. The collection includes personal portraits, class and group photographs, picnic and outing scenes at places such as Shelly Bay, images of Lincoln House (class of 1939), and views of residences and river landscapes, including Bushman’s River. Most items are captioned with identifiable locations and names, reflecting educational community networks and social events across several decades of the mid-20th century.

The Valda Niehaus Collection sheds light on the lived experiences, informal gatherings, educational communities and leisure activities of people connected to Grahamstown Teachers’ Training College. It offers valuable visual documentation for studies of social history, education, regional community life, and photographic practices in South African local history.
Date Issued
mid-20th century
Type
Collection
Archival photograph collection
Social history imagery
Genre
Documentary photographs
Community photographs
Educational history
Subject
Grahamstown Teachers’ Training College
Educational community
Rhodes University
Extent
73 items
Spatial Coverage
Grahamstown (South Africa)
Shelly Bay (Eastern Cape, South Africa)
Bushman’s River (Eastern Cape, South Africa)
Eastern Cape, South Africa
Temporal Coverage
Mid-20th century
Format
JPEG/photograph scans

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