English woman’s photo album documenting a year of work and travel in Apartheid era South Africa and Southern Rhodesia in 1954-1955, during a time when white colonies were well established during the consolidation of apartheid. Compiled by an English woman attached to the Over-Seas League, Torquay branch, and employed for.....
Imperial war stereoview cards from the Second Boer War, documenting British military transport, entrenchment, artillery deployment, refugee evacuation, and camp provisioning in South Africa, circa 1899 to 1900. Published for commercial circulation, the cards include infantry crossing rivers under observation, Royal Engineers rebuilding destroyed transport routes, naval guns hauled inland.....
Unknown photographer, Muizenberg photo archive, 1942, documents a Cape Town seaside suburb during the late colonial period, before apartheid became formal state policy in 1948 but after generations of racial hierarchy had already shaped land, labor, movement, and public amenities in South Africa. The photographs record Muizenberg’s resort landscape through.....
African press photo archive credited on the versos to Tomas D.W. Friedmann, documenting images of anticolonial war, apartheid labor, urban growth, and locals across Africa in 1970. These press photos translated events in Angola, South Africa, Nigeria, and Tunisia into public facing articles for western audiences. At the time of.....
[Colonialism][Religion] Archive of letters by Dr. John A. Reuling recording his 1946 missionary work in Africa, across mid-century Portuguese, Belgian, British, and South African colonial systems, where evangelism was a tool of westernization and colonialism alongside education, public health, and agricultural training. Written during Reuling’s first year as Africa Secretary.....
Henry Jones. [Mabel Atkinson] ALS, July 18, 1901--Letterhead of The University, Glasgow. 2 pages on both sides of a single sheet. Jones was a professor of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow University. Only recently, the University opened the degree to women. The top student to graduate in a cohort of over.....
Langwill, J. P. and Mrs. J. P. Photo album and travel scrapbook, 1941 to 1952, a multi format record of civilian travel through southern Africa during and immediately after World War II, preserving firsthand observations of colonial infrastructure, landscape, and local communities. Compiled by an American couple residing in Cape.....
South African apartheid photo archive belonging to "M. Adams" documenting the segregated community of Korsten, Port Elizabeth, through vernacular photographs capturing sanitation, labor, schooling, health care, and everyday life through portraiture and street photography. A contemporary handwritten inventory headed “Slums of Korsten, Port Elizabeth, S.A.” links individual photographs to subjects.....
