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The Zwarenstein Boer War Prisoner Collection, donated by Anthony Pamm, brings together a variety of photographs, a certificate, and wedding memorabilia concerning the Dutch Zwarenstein family around the 1900s. Important…
The collection includes photograph albums, photographs, lantern slides, stereographs, postcards and films by professional photographers and amateurs who recorded interesting places and events. Joseph Barnett, Constance Stuart Larrabee, Jurgen Schadeberg,…
The items in the manuscript collection are diverse in content, medium and extent. Besides written accounts, the collection includes scrapbooks, press cuttings, telegrams, maps, sketches and photographs. And, in extent,…
The book and pamphlet collections include the old, the rare and the unusual, hand-coloured illustrations and fine bindings. The books number about 22 000 volumes. The two pamphlet collections contain…
Artworks in The Brenthurst Library complement the collections of published works and manuscripts. The collection, which numbers thousands of works of historical importance, comprises original works in a variety of…
The collection comprises material illustrating French involvement in South African history, including the following: material relating to the early French journeys to the Cape and South African interior; descriptions of…
Dr Van Hoepen's correspondence, diary and some cuttings and manuscripts
Personal memories; minutes of the Debating Society at St Helena POW Camp; correspondence; mounted photographs of the Anglo-Boer War
The collection includes the original hand-written and typed manuscripts of The soul of the ape, as well as the manuscript of Nag - his drama, written just before his untimely…
It includes manuscripts ; correspondence ; newspaper clippings of the South African War and other topics
