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James Lycett, Journal

  • ZA HPRA A72
  • Fonds
  • 1854

Journey: August 8, 1854 – November 11, 1854

The James Lycett Journal describes a “Journey to Namaqualand from Cape Town, commenced on Tuesday August 8th, 1854 in company with J. Calvert Esq., Coachman John Southgate, and Daangie, a Hottentot” (p.1) Another man named March, described as a “Hottentot boy,” also travelled with them. The Journal ends on November 11, 1854, with Lycett alone in Hondeklip Bay.

The Lycett party was part of the Namaqualand copper boom of 1854, and crossed paths with other prospectors, local farmers, and some government officials, including Charles Davidson Bell, Surveyor General, and Dr. William Guybon Atherstone, who later reported on the geology of the region to the Government. Atherstone kept three notebooks of his 1854 trip to Namaqualand, which describe similar struggles of travel but offer a different perspective on the people he met - including John Calvert.

The Atherstone notebooks are held in the Albany Museum in Grahamstown (Makhanda) in the Section that used to be the Settler Museum. My thanks to Dr. Elizabeth van Heyningen, Honorary Research Associate [HRA], History Department, University of Stellenbosch, for this information.

Lycett, James

Hal Miller, A Memoir

  • ZA HPRA A3464
  • Fonds
  • 2023

"Hal Miller: A memoir and personal history of The Argus Newspaper Group", with a foreword by Rosemary Miller and an afterword by Jonathan Hobday, former Argus Group editor.

Miller, Hal

9-HE/CMJ Liquidated Companies

  • ZA BWRMA BWRMA-9
  • recordgrp
  • 1922-1924

Additional to HE/CMJ Liquidated companies inventory, containing:

  • Consulting Engineers Reports, July 1922-December 1923
  • Consulting Engineers Reports, January 1924-April 1924

2-WB - Wernher & Beit Papers

  • ZA BWRMA BWRMA-2
  • recordgrp
  • 1800s-1900s

The collection contains to a large extent the correspondence with the London office. Please see the full listing in the inventory.

Barlow World Rand Mines Archive

1-HE - Hermann Eckstein Papers

  • ZA BWRMA BWRMA-1
  • recordgrp
  • 1887-1910

The inventory provides a full description of the Rand Mines history and its archive, content and system of arrangement.

Barlow World Rand Mines Archive

B10-Rand Water Board

  • ZA BWRMA BWRMA-10
  • recordgrp

There are supplementary boxes containing as follows:

  • Secretaries reports: January 1930 to December 1931
  • Printed Minutes: January 1933 to December 1934

POSTERS AND EPHEMERAL, Various formats

  • ZA AFRAPIX AP6
  • recordgrp
  • 1980s

This section will contain various publication formats for which Afrapix photographs were used. The cover image depicts the fold-out brochure produced by Afrapix, Co-ordinator Diane Stuart.

AFRAPIX

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