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This collection includes prints in a variety of media from France, Britain, Holland, Germany, Spain, etc. They range from Dutch 17th century etchings to 20th century American serigraphs and provide examples of…
The Wellington Museum is situated in the winelands of the Western Cape, 45 minutes from Cape Town, featuring exhibitions of the cultures of various African ethnic groups, our first inhabitants,…
Gerard Sekoto, considered to be one of the pioneers of modern South African art, left South Africa in the 1947. He spent the rest of his life in self-imposed exile,…
The collection consists of speeches, correspondence, press releases, answers to questions, newspaper clippings, material for speeches, invitations, radio broadcasts, and other documents
Letters regarding postage (16 dd 1903 and 3 dd 1924/1925)
The collection contains special supplements about the Second World War from the journal Le Petit Journal
The most important items are known as the Ottoman Missak Archives, consisting of Ottoman, Armenian, French and Greek documents and old family photographs, which trace the history and genealogy of…
The collection includes about 7 500 monographs and 58 journal titles, proves. Roughly half of the collection consists of literary works: The Afrikaans section reflects Afrikaans literary history from its…
His collection of books covers the classics in literature and medicine
Documents and letters pertaining to Alfred Metcalf, James Metcalf's father; diary (1914-1915), kept by James Metcalf in which he recorded his experiences as a prisoner of war in SWA; maps…
