Elizabeth Salt Monument in High Street (Grahamstown)
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 19uu
- Subjects: Monuments -- South Africa -- Grahamstown -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/72221 , vital:30019
- Description: Elisabeth Salt Monument, High Street, Grahamstown, South Africa, commemorating the Xhosa-British battle of 22 April 1819. It was built in memory of the pioneer woman in the Battle of Grahamstown. In 1819 Xhosa’s attacked the settlement with about 6 000 men. Many of the warriors died during the battle but only 2 British. According to legend Elizabeth salt carried a keg of gunpowder through the Xhosa warriors to the men by wrapping it in a baby blanket. This story is shown on the plaque on the monument. The monument also marks the spot where, under a tree, Lieutenant Colonel Graham and Captian Stockenstrom decided on the site for Grahamstown. They camped on the land where the cathedral stands today. The town was proclaimed in August 1811 and was named after Colonel John Graham.
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- Date Issued: 19uu
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 19uu
- Subjects: Monuments -- South Africa -- Grahamstown -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/72221 , vital:30019
- Description: Elisabeth Salt Monument, High Street, Grahamstown, South Africa, commemorating the Xhosa-British battle of 22 April 1819. It was built in memory of the pioneer woman in the Battle of Grahamstown. In 1819 Xhosa’s attacked the settlement with about 6 000 men. Many of the warriors died during the battle but only 2 British. According to legend Elizabeth salt carried a keg of gunpowder through the Xhosa warriors to the men by wrapping it in a baby blanket. This story is shown on the plaque on the monument. The monument also marks the spot where, under a tree, Lieutenant Colonel Graham and Captian Stockenstrom decided on the site for Grahamstown. They camped on the land where the cathedral stands today. The town was proclaimed in August 1811 and was named after Colonel John Graham.
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- Date Issued: 19uu
Erythrina caffra
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 19uu
- Subjects: Erythrina caffra -- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , notes
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/121977 , vital:35197
- Description: Caption "Odd notes: Erythrina caffra."
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- Date Issued: 19uu
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 19uu
- Subjects: Erythrina caffra -- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , notes
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/121977 , vital:35197
- Description: Caption "Odd notes: Erythrina caffra."
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- Date Issued: 19uu
Erythrina caffra
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 19uu
- Subjects: Erythrina caffra -- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , notes
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/121962 , vital:35196
- Description: Caption "C. J . Skead's notes. Historical. Erythrina caffra."
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- Date Issued: 19uu
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 19uu
- Subjects: Erythrina caffra -- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , notes
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/121962 , vital:35196
- Description: Caption "C. J . Skead's notes. Historical. Erythrina caffra."
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- Date Issued: 19uu
Erythrina caffra
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 19uu
- Subjects: Erythrina caffra - South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/118826 , vital:34672
- Description: Caption "Branch from tree at another Presbyterian Church, King Williams Town.”
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- Date Issued: 19uu
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 19uu
- Subjects: Erythrina caffra - South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/118826 , vital:34672
- Description: Caption "Branch from tree at another Presbyterian Church, King Williams Town.”
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- Date Issued: 19uu
Erythrina caffra
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 19uu
- Subjects: Erythrina caffra - South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/118806 , vital:34670
- Description: Caption "Caffre. K.W.T.”
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- Date Issued: 19uu
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 19uu
- Subjects: Erythrina caffra - South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/118806 , vital:34670
- Description: Caption "Caffre. K.W.T.”
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- Date Issued: 19uu
Erythrina caffra
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 19uu
- Subjects: Erythrina caffra - South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/118770 , vital:34667
- Description: Caption "Avenue of Erythrina caffra. Kaffirboom trees at Port St. Johns. They were in full flower in September - a most beautiful sight, and full of birds taking nectar. 19uu.”
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- Date Issued: 19uu
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 19uu
- Subjects: Erythrina caffra - South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/118770 , vital:34667
- Description: Caption "Avenue of Erythrina caffra. Kaffirboom trees at Port St. Johns. They were in full flower in September - a most beautiful sight, and full of birds taking nectar. 19uu.”
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- Date Issued: 19uu
Erythrina caffra - kaffirboom
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 19uu
- Subjects: Erythrina caffra - South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/118722 , vital:34662
- Description: Caption "Caffra.”
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- Date Issued: 19uu
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 19uu
- Subjects: Erythrina caffra - South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/118722 , vital:34662
- Description: Caption "Caffra.”
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- Date Issued: 19uu
Erythrina caffra - Kaffirboom
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 19uu
- Subjects: Erythrina caffra- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/119621 , vital:34764
- Description: Caption "Erythrina caffra. Can't remember where.”
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- Date Issued: 19uu
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 19uu
- Subjects: Erythrina caffra- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/119621 , vital:34764
- Description: Caption "Erythrina caffra. Can't remember where.”
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 19uu
Erythrina humeana
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 19uu
- Subjects: Erythrina humeana-- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , notes
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/121957 , vital:35195
- Description: Caption "C. J . Skead's notes. Erythrina humeana."
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 19uu
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 19uu
- Subjects: Erythrina humeana-- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , notes
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/121957 , vital:35195
- Description: Caption "C. J . Skead's notes. Erythrina humeana."
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- Date Issued: 19uu
Euphorbia chopped open to get at bees nest
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 19uu
- Subjects: Euphorbia -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/73138 , vital:30159
- Description: Caption: "Euphorbia chopped open to get at bees nest in hollow centre."
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- Date Issued: 19uu
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 19uu
- Subjects: Euphorbia -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/73138 , vital:30159
- Description: Caption: "Euphorbia chopped open to get at bees nest in hollow centre."
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- Date Issued: 19uu
Euphorbia pulcherrima - Poinsettia
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 19uu
- Subjects: Euphorbia pulcherrima-- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/122739 , vital:35324
- Description: Caption "Poinsettia flower showing the nectoar glands with their narrow slits in which white-eyes probe for nectar."
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- Date Issued: 19uu
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 19uu
- Subjects: Euphorbia pulcherrima-- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/122739 , vital:35324
- Description: Caption "Poinsettia flower showing the nectoar glands with their narrow slits in which white-eyes probe for nectar."
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- Date Issued: 19uu
Euphorbia triangularis - King Williams Town
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 19uu
- Subjects: Euphorbia -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/73110 , vital:30155
- Description: Caption: "Euphorbia triangularis standing alone on King Williams Town commonage with a creeper growing up through its leaves."
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- Date Issued: 19uu
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 19uu
- Subjects: Euphorbia -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/73110 , vital:30155
- Description: Caption: "Euphorbia triangularis standing alone on King Williams Town commonage with a creeper growing up through its leaves."
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- Date Issued: 19uu
Ficus sansibarica - Wild Fig
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 19uu
- Subjects: Ficus sansibarica -- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , notes
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/121420 , vital:35098
- Description: Caption "Wild Fig generally. Species not always identified. C. J. Skead notes."
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- Date Issued: 19uu
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 19uu
- Subjects: Ficus sansibarica -- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , notes
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/121420 , vital:35098
- Description: Caption "Wild Fig generally. Species not always identified. C. J. Skead notes."
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- Date Issued: 19uu
Ficus sansibarica - Wild Fig
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 19uu
- Subjects: Ficus sansibarica -- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , notes
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/121405 , vital:35097
- Description: Caption "Wild Fig generally. Species not always identified. C. J. Skead notes."
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- Date Issued: 19uu
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 19uu
- Subjects: Ficus sansibarica -- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , notes
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/121405 , vital:35097
- Description: Caption "Wild Fig generally. Species not always identified. C. J. Skead notes."
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 19uu
Ficus tree at the Great Fish River
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 19uu
- Subjects: Ficus (Plants) -- South Africa -- Photographs , Fig -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/74169 , vital:30270
- Description: Caption: "Ficus at Kaffir drift, Great Fish River, Bathurst, Peddie."
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- Date Issued: 19uu
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 19uu
- Subjects: Ficus (Plants) -- South Africa -- Photographs , Fig -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/74169 , vital:30270
- Description: Caption: "Ficus at Kaffir drift, Great Fish River, Bathurst, Peddie."
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- Date Issued: 19uu
Flowers of Protea subvestita
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 19uu
- Subjects: Protea subvestita -- South Africa -- Photographs , Proteaceae -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/74488 , vital:30308
- Description: Caption: "Close-up of flowers of Protea subvestita. Showing the pink and white (half-obscured in processing of film) variants. The central flower is still opening. Others around are past their best. The central one is in full nectar flow."
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- Date Issued: 19uu
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 19uu
- Subjects: Protea subvestita -- South Africa -- Photographs , Proteaceae -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/74488 , vital:30308
- Description: Caption: "Close-up of flowers of Protea subvestita. Showing the pink and white (half-obscured in processing of film) variants. The central flower is still opening. Others around are past their best. The central one is in full nectar flow."
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- Date Issued: 19uu
Gardenia thunbergia
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 19uu
- Subjects: Gardenia -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/73142 , vital:30160
- Description: Caption: "Gardenia thunbergia in garden of Gordon Ranger's house at Kei Road."
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- Date Issued: 19uu
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 19uu
- Subjects: Gardenia -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/73142 , vital:30160
- Description: Caption: "Gardenia thunbergia in garden of Gordon Ranger's house at Kei Road."
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- Date Issued: 19uu
Gardenia thunbergia
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 19uu
- Subjects: Gardenia thunbergia -- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/122606 , vital:35310
- Description: Caption "Gardenia thunbergia in garden of Gordon Ranger's house at Kei Road."
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- Date Issued: 19uu
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 19uu
- Subjects: Gardenia thunbergia -- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/122606 , vital:35310
- Description: Caption "Gardenia thunbergia in garden of Gordon Ranger's house at Kei Road."
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- Date Issued: 19uu
Harpephyllum caffrum
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 19uu
- Subjects: Harpephyllum caffrum -- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , notes
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/120281 , vital:34870
- Description: Caption "C. J. Skead notes. Harpephyllum caffrum."
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- Date Issued: 19uu
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 19uu
- Subjects: Harpephyllum caffrum -- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , notes
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/120281 , vital:34870
- Description: Caption "C. J. Skead notes. Harpephyllum caffrum."
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 19uu
Harpephyllum caffrum - Kaffir Plum
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 19uu
- Subjects: Harpephyllum caffrum -- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/121191 , vital:34986
- Description: Caption "Kaffir Plum, Harpephyllum caffrum fruits as opened by Cape Parrots, Poicephalas robustus to reach the olives of kernel in the seeds."
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- Date Issued: 19uu
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 19uu
- Subjects: Harpephyllum caffrum -- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/121191 , vital:34986
- Description: Caption "Kaffir Plum, Harpephyllum caffrum fruits as opened by Cape Parrots, Poicephalas robustus to reach the olives of kernel in the seeds."
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- Date Issued: 19uu