Map of Cape Town 1891.
VIEW ORIGINAL.........for a fascinating look at what the city looked like 122 years ago. Virtually all the well known streets are there albeit, sparsely populated.. Today’s residential areas were mostly farms and small-holdings.. Unfortunately a small area on the right (Sea Point) has been damaged and the ‘repair job’ could have been better, but still gives a good indication of the lay of the land.
Somerset Hospital c1890.
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Cape Town in 1900s. Even that long ago people were streaming to the Cape for our sunshine and produce.
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Simon's Town, Cape Colony, 1870s
21 Table Mountain maps to better understand Cape Town
Table Mountain maps illustrating history, ecology, and natural history of Cape Town and it's relationship to the mountain it sits at the foot of.
Cape Town's first theatre, from an undated Maskew Miller publication of Lady Anne Barnard's diaries
Cape Town: The Bark "William Hales" Towing Out of Port in 1886
The featured vessel in this painting is the American bark, William Holes. She was rounding the Cape of Good Hope from Singapore en route to New York when she went aground on a reef off Struis Point. The ships' log reveals the predicament. "Put in leaky. Struck reef off Struis Point and bumped very heavily. After setting all sail ship came off. Found her making water rapidly. All hands worked pumps. Water gained rapidly so made for Table Bay as vessel could not have kept afloat much longer."…
Postcards: Cape Town and Peninsula
Consolidated into a set from various internet sources.
Cape Town 1800
Cape Town 1800
Viaduct across Fishery Beach, Kalk Bay
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Robben Island with Table Mountain in the background
From an engraved wood panel from D. Wangemann's book 'Ein zweites Reisejahr in Süd-Afrika'
1764 Bellin Map of Table Bay, Cape Town, South Africa
This hand colored map is a c. 1764 map of the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Town, South Africa. Attributed to French cartographer Jacques-Nicholas Bellin, this map was issued both in Bellin's Le Petit Atlas Maritime Recueil de Cartes et de Plans des Quatre Parties du Monde and in the French edition of Provost's Histoire des Voyages. Beautifully rendered mountains and villages show the area in considerable detail. Bellin identifies the 'Village of the Hottentots,' Blue Mountain, Cow Mountain…
The Untold Stories of Slavery at Cape Town’s Iziko Slave Lodge
Explore the long history of slavery in Cape Town at the Iziko Slave Lodge Museum.
View of Cape of Good Hope, with Table Mountain from the 'Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën' by François Valentijn
c1725 Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën