J. A. Evershed East Africa, Egypt, Palestine Photograph Album
Photograph album of a young Englishman, J. A. Evershed, who took a trip down the east coast of Africa on the S.S. Guildford Castle and back up on the A.R.…
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World War II North Africa Photograph Album, 1941-1945.
Album contains over 130 photographs, sketches, and clippings, mainly images of the western desert and Libya, Egypt, and some of Jerusalem, apparently taken by a British soldier (most likely RAF…
Morris and Dorothy Margolin film collection, 1947-1982 and undated
The Morris and Dorothy Margolin Film Collection includes 32 home movies that capture the Margolins' travels between 1947 and 1976. Destinations represented in the collection include Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada,…
Women’s Refugee Commission records, 1979-2020; 1979-ongoing, bulk 1989-2011
The collection is organized into several series, each representing different operations within the Women's Refugee Commission. The Audiovisual Materials series includes tapes in a variety of formats documenting speaking engagements, luncheons, and…
Wulfsohn Family Collection
The Wulfsohn Video Collection contains digitised footage. It was donated by the Wulfsohn family and contains videos of the Wulfsohn family's travels around South Africa, and Israel as well as…
Karpas Family Collection
The Karpas Video Collection contains digitised footage. It was donated by Alan Karpas and contains videos of the Karpas family's travels around South Africa, the Second World War, and Israel
South African Jewish music articles
May Hillhouse Sketches
Collection donated to the University of Cape Town by the Trustees of the artist’s estate and the South African Institute of Race Relations, the main beneficiaries of her estate. The…
Max Raysman Papers
Papers of Max Raysman (1913?-2007). Max Raysman came from Kovno in Lithuania to South Africa in 1929 at the age of 16. After his death, his books and papers were…
Israeli American Papers
Photocopies of papers concerning the establishment of the State of Israel (ca.1947-1949)