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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.…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Photocopies of papers concerning the establishment of the State of Israel (ca.1947-1949)