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Ellen Hellmann Papers

  • ZA HPRA A1419
  • Fonds
  • 1898 - 1982

The collection consist of articles, reports and talks by Ellen Hellman, as well as letters, booklets and press clippings. Also included are photographs, which were taken by Ellen Hellmann, and which often accompanied her research and reports.

Ellen Hellmann

Scrap-Book

  • ZA HPRA A142
  • Fonds
  • 1773 - 1841

The scrap-book contains broadsides pertaining to the theatre and one of a scurrilous nature; press clippings of poetry, anecdotes, cartoon and news events of the day such as the death of George III in 1820 and Napoleon in 1840; coats of arms and manuscript lists of jurymen for the county of Norfolk (UK). The name Hambleton Custance (High Sheriff for Norfolk) appears on some of the press clippings and he may have been the compiler of the scrap-book.

Colin S. Goodman Papers

  • ZA HPRA A1434
  • Fonds
  • 1930-1977

Brochures, photographs and memoranda on the work of the Johannesburg City Council's Housing Division, including material on Soweto, Riverlea, Oriental Plaza, construction techniques, housing for the Black and Coloured communities at the time as well as vocational training at the George Tabor Vocational Training Centre in Dube. Also included a tour of the Transvaal Homelands in 1967.

Goodman, Colin S.

Papers of Edward James Pullinger

  • ZA HPRA A1437
  • Fonds
  • 1906

Papers relating to an unsuccessful expedition to British Somaliland to prespect for diamonds and garnets, 1906.

Included are a Memorandum of agreement between J.R. Emerson, W.H. Pring and E.J. Pullinger on the expedition, sponsored by Pullinger and led by R.S. Barnard Williams; Somaliland game and prospecting licences and mining regulations; report on the expedition by R.S. Barnard Williams; correspondence, telegrams and financial statements.

Sword album

  • ZA HPRA A144
  • Fonds
  • 1926

Album with photographs of swords, with handwritten explanatory notes, possibly compiled by Major Pullar.

Church of The Nazarene records

  • ZA HPRA A1441
  • Fonds
  • 1907 - 1980

Establishment of first school of the church of the Nazarene in Africa Married Rev. H.A. Shirley who later headed printing work of the Nazarenes.

Proceedings of the General Assembly.

Possible funding of Swazi Schools.

Facts about Nazarene Foreign Missions.

Africa mission Station Reports, 1911-1923.

Reports to General Missionary Board Reynolds, Rev. H.F.

Girdling the globe with Nazarene Missions - 1961-1980.

Information on world mission work & on missionaries.

History of missions, Guide to Historic Resource Materials.

Names of major correspondents: Etta Innis (later Shirley), Rev. Dr. H.F. Reynolds, Brother Andersson, Irene Jester, Myrtle Pelley, Bertha Parker, Margaret Latta, Dr. William Esselstyn, Louise Robinson, Harmon & Lula Schmelgenbach, Ora Lovelace.

Names of sub-groups:

Pentecostal Church of Nazarene.

Department of Foreign Missions.

Nazarene Headquarters Library.

General Missionary Board.

Church of the Nazarene (U.S.A.)

Walter Hume Long, Correspondence

  • ZA HPRA A1442
  • Fonds
  • 1900 - 1903

R. Hon. Walter Hume Long, 1st Viscount, 1854-1924 (British Member of Parliament and Privy Councillor).

Anglo-Boer War Letters.
Letters to W.H. Long from, amongst others, his son Captain Walter (Toby) Long (1879-1912), Colonel R. Chaloner and Major Harry Scobell, describing skirmishes with the Boers in the Transvaal and the Cape and the Kimberley engagement in which Walter Long was wounded. Includes letters from Walter written from India, 1909-1910, and Canada, 1910.

Fortnightly Club Johannesburg, Records

  • ZA HPRA A146
  • Fonds
  • 1906-1908

Minute-book of meetings 1-26, 4 Oct. 1906-11 Jun. 1908, including rules and original membership list; minute-book of committee meetings 1-4, 25 Apr.-28 Nov. 1907; 15 papers read by the following members C.L. Andersson, G.L. Craig, L. Curtis, R. Feetham, H.J. Hofmeyr, W.L. Honnold, J.C. Lyttleton, D.O. Malcolm, F. Perry, J.H. Pim, J. Stratford and W.S. Webber.

Subjects include race relations, Transvaal labour situation, colonialism, immigration of Asiatics, university education and the problems of the South African Federation.

English pilot, Extracts

  • ZA HPRA A147
  • Fonds
  • 1784-1785

'Beskrivelse udtaget af den Engelske Peiloth og oversat paa Dansk i aaret ao 1784 & 1785 af Her Fagtoer Woliam til notte for siine landsmend'. 287p. Ms vol.

Extracts from The English PIlot, translated into Danish in 1784 and 1785 by Mr. Fagtoer Woliam for the use of his countrymen.

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