The Manuscript maps and plans in this collection were drawn in the Eastern Cape, between 1822 and 1870, by the Royal Engineers of the British Army. The emphasis is on military installations in the area.
Map of Southern Africa, south of the Zambesi River. Issued after the incorporation of the British South Africa Company but before Zimbabwe came to be called Rhodesia.
Commissioned from William Kentridge by Nadine Gordimer (1965?). Item can be found in Patrick White. The Cockatoos. London : Jonathan Cape, 1974. EARLY PR 9619.3 WHI. She appears to have stopped using the bookplates around 2000.
Topographic map of the Free State from below Kroonstad to the Vaal River. Sheet from a set of maps of the Free State (Orange River Colony) produced between 1901 and 1910
Johnson, Curtis; Renwick, William Turnbull.; White, Henry Arthur; Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers(1862-07-19)
The plan shows a section of the barrack area of the Military Reserve in King William's Town where new barracks and officer quarters were to be erected.
Tatham, R. B.; Smith, Percy; Bolton, Daniel, 1794-1860.; Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers; Great Britain. Army. Cape of Good Hope Command. Eastern Province Division; Fanshawe, Charles(1859-12-08)
The military posts, in the Districts of Albany and Beaufort in the Eastern Cape, are shown on this map.
Tatham, R. B.; Smith, Percy; Bolton, Daniel, 1794-1860.; Great Britain. Army. Cape of Good Hope Command. Eastern Province Division; Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers(1859-12-08)
A simple plan of Port Elizabeth demonstrating part of the coastline and the Bakens River. Positions of the ordnance and commissariat stores, Fort Frederick and a nearby hospital are shown. An inset plan shows the dimensions ...
Molesworth, Morgan Crofton; Dill, Marcus; Bolton, Daniel, 1794-1860.; Jackson, James (Sir), 1790-1871.; Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers(1857-11-26)
Simple plan of King William's Town showing military stores to be erected.
Duff, Robert William; Akers, Charles Style; Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers(1857-06-18)
The area covered by this map lies between East London and the Kabousie Mountains in the north. Forts, posts, the German villages and the Dohne and Peelton mission stations are marked.
Tylden, Richard, 1819-1855.; Dudswell, G.; Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers(1853-10-04)
Fort Hill, first built in 1835, is shown. The plan also sets out military and government structures in King William's Town after the Eighth Frontier War of 1850-1853.
Tylden, Richard, 1819-1855.; Smith, Joshua H.; Robertson, Charles Duesbury.; Moody, Hampden Charles Blamire; Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers(1853-07-27)
This copy, of Tylden's original map (12th July 1853), has been used the show proposed alternations to the waggon road and the bridle path between Fort Hare and Keiskamma Hoek Post. Apparently by the time the later copy ...
Tylden, Richard, 1819-1855.; Belfield, Edward; Robertson, Charles Duesbury.; Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers(1853-08-19)
The road between Fort Hare and the Keiskamma Hoek Post, passing Fort Cox is shown, as well as the bridle path going up to the Chumie [Tyhume] River and the Amatola Mountains and down to Keiskamma Hoek Post.
Siborne, Herbert Taylor; Smith, Joshua H.; Robertson, Charles Duesbury; Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers(1853-06-10)
The new road is shown following the east bank of the Kabula River, a tributary to the Keiskamma River. The road is in the foothills of the Amatola Mountains
Tylden, Richard, 1819-1855.; McLintock, W; Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers(1852-11-02)
The route on the map passes due north through the districts of North Victoria, Cradock and Albert across the Stormberg Mountains. Smaller roads, settlements along rivers, and certain prominent peaks are shown.
The two Forts Fordyce, one of stone and one of earthwork, located along what was known as the Beaufort/Argyll Road, are shown. The Forts were named after Lieut-Col John Fordyce killed in the vicinity of the Forts 6 November ...