Asian Art
Collections of Chinese ceramics, Indian miniatures and Japanese prints were established by Eleanor Lorimer, the first Director, in acknowledgment of the Chinese and Indian communities in Port Elizabeth
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Van Tilburg Collection
The Van Tilburg Collection is a permanent museum that comprises 17th and 18th century furniture, paintings, Delft ceramics and other works of art, and includes the largest South African collection…
Artists (UP Art Archive)
The collection consists of various smaller collections by various artists
Institute of Soviet Studies Collection
The collection consists of documents regarding the Institute of Soviet Studies, Stellenbosch University. The collection contains reports ; correspondence ; newspaper clippings ; minutes ; annual reports ; finance matters…
J.C. (Kay) de Villiers Collection
The collection consists of scrapbooks with newspaper clippings by a war correspondent re Italian invasion of Abyssinia (Ethiopia) (1889), and Jameson Raid & Reform Committee (1895)
Mossop Papers
Two scrapbooks with mounted newspaper cuttings of court cases, mostly from the North China Daily News, for period 1932-1941, in some of which cases her husband, Sir Alan Mossop, acted…
East Asia Collection
The "Mossop Chinese Collection" is a small collection of just over 100 items, consisting mainly of books about China and other East Asian countries