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| | Book |  | | | Author: | Walker, Michael | | Year: | 2012 | | Title: | Early architects of Cape Town and their buildings (1820 - 1926) with postcard illustrations, The | | Place: | St James | | Publisher: | Michael Walker |
The great era of the publication of postcards illustrating buildings in Cape Town occurred between 1904 and 1914. Postage was inexpensive, cameras were rare and it was an ideal way of showing distant friends, churches, schools, town halls, hotels, stations, institutions and commercial buildings. These postcards of over a century ago are now scarce. This book is a permanent reminder of the early architects of Cape Town and their art nouveau designs prior to the era of art deco architecture which flourished after the Artes Decoratifs Exhibition in Paris in 1925. Here styles became more streamlined with smooth polished surfaces, especially with regard to high-rise buildings. | | | Link to WorldCat - find this book in a library near you |
Buildings linked to this bookBritish Hotel, 1897 : 1992, Simonstown, Western Cape. pp 81-82   | | Burgher Watch House, 1755, Central, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 122-123 | | Cape Argus Building, 1912, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 126 | | City Hall, 1894-1905, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 33 | | Claremont Congregational Church hall, 1904 : 1937, Claremont, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 66 | | Clock Tower in Table Bay Docks, 1883 : 1997, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 27 | | Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society Building, 1887, Central, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 40 | | Congregational Church, 1877 : 1892 : 1964, Claremont, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 65, 65 ill | | Diocesan College, War Memorial Chapel, 1926, Rondebosch, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 110 | | Dockyard Church - Second, St George's Dockyard Church, 1820-1824 : 1898, Simonstown, Western Cape. pp 114 | | Garlick's Bldg, 1928, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 85 | | Garlick's Department Store, 1893, Central, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 84 | | Garlick's Wholesale Warehouse, 1902, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 84 | | General Post Office, 1897, Central, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 28-29 | | Grand Hotel - First, 1894, Central, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 22 | | Great Synagogue, 1903, Central, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 85, 86 (ill.) | | Groot Constantia, 1789, Constantia, Western Cape. pp 104 | | Groot Constantia Homestead, 1792, Constantia, Western Cape. pp 104 | | Groote Kerk, 1835-1836, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 9-10 | | Groote Schuur, 1896, Rondebosch, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 90-91 | | House CJ Rhodes: The Woolsack, 1900, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 91 | | Houses of Parliament, 1879-1885, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 25, 26 (ill.) | | International Hotel, 1884 : 1896 : 1899 : 1902, Gardens, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 52, 53 (ills.) | | Iziko South African Museum, 1893, Central, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 57-59 | | JW Jagger and Co Building and Warehouse, 1892 : 1895, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 49-50 | | Law Courts, now Supreme Court, 1906, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 106, 107 (ill.) | | Lighthouse, Green Point, 1820 - 1824 : 1865, Green Point, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 7-8 | | Metropolitan Methodist Church, 1876, Central, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 20-21 | | Mount Nelson Hotel, 1897 : 1898 : n.d. : 1922, Gardens, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 100 | | Mowbray Town Hall, c1900, Mowbray, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 72-73 | | Muizenberg Bathing Pavilion - First, 1910, Muizenberg, Western Cape. pp 119-120 | | National Library of South Africa, Cape Town Campus, 1857 - 1864, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 16, 17 (ills.) | | Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk, 1891, Rondebosch, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 42-43 | | Parliament House of Assembly, 1910, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 97 | | Presbyterian Church, 1902, Gardens, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 89 | | Presbyterian Church, 1902, Wynberg, Western Cape. pp 82-83 | | Public Library, designs for, c1851, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 16, 17 (ills.) | | Railway Station, 1913, Muizenberg, Western Cape. pp 74, 75 (ills.) | | Railway Station - Second, 1876, Central, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 23-25 | | Rhodes Building, 1902 : c1950, Central, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 95 | | Rhodes Memorial, 1906, Rondebosch, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 102 | | Rhodes' Cottage, n.d. : 1901, Muizenberg, Western Cape. pp 99 | | Rotunda and Concert Hall Pavilion, 1902, Camps Bay, Western Cape. pp 55, 56 (ill) | | Rust en Vrede, 1905, Muizenberg, Western Cape. pp 140 | | Sea Point Bathing Pavilion - First, 1913-1914, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 59, 60 ill, 61 | | Somerset Hospital - Second, 1859 -1862 , Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 29 | | South African College - 'Egyptian Building' - now University of Cape Town Michaelis School of Art, 1839-1841, Gardens, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 27 | | South African College School, bldgs, 1898, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 103 | | St George's Cathedral, 1897-1911 : 1930 : 1957-1963, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 94-95 | | St George's Church, 1830-6, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 10 | | St James's Anglican Church, 1898 : 1936 : 1938, Sea Point, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 36-37 | | St John's Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk - the Round Church, 1878, Sea Point, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 19 (ill.), 20 | | St Mary's Cathedral, 1840-51 : 1864 : 1951, Central, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 14-15 | | St Michael and All Angels Anglican Church, 1898 : 1904, Observatory, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 93 | | St Saviour's Church, 1850 : 1871 : 1904, Claremont, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 98-99 | | Table Mountain Restaurant, 1931, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 110-112 | | Tivoli Theatre, 1901, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 83 | | Town Hall, 1899, Wynberg, Western Cape. pp 66-67 | | Town Hall - now Rondebosch library, 1899, Rondebosch, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 45-47 | | University of the Cape of Good Hope, 1909, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 105-106 | | Valkenberg Psychiatric Hospital, 1899, Observatory, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 28 | | Victoria Cottage Hospital, 1889 : 1892 : 1917 : 1931 : 1961 : 1972 : 2013, Wynberg, Western Cape. pp 47-48 | | YMCA and Tramway Co Building, 1883, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 21-22 | | YWCA, 1902, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 88 | | YWCA, Long St, 1886, Cape Town, Western Cape. pp 88 |
People or firms linked to this book
| | ACKERMANN, Adolphus William. pp 23-24 | | ADAMSON, William M. pp 61-65 | | ALEXANDER, George Murray. pp 42-47 | | BAKER, Sir Herbert. pp 90-95 | | BLACK, William Patrick Henry. pp 66-67 | | CHERRY, Frederick (Fred). pp 59-61 | | COWIN, John Norris. pp 70 | | DAMSTRA, Mello Gerardus. pp 51-52 | | DE WITT, Anthony (Antonie) Mauritz. pp 47-54 | | DELBRIDGE, William John. pp 119-122 | | FORSYTH, Alexander. pp 76 | | FORSYTH and PARKER. pp 76-89 | | FREEMAN, Charles AS. pp 19-22 | | GLENNIE, Frederick McIntosh. pp 15 | | GRANT, William Hood. pp 125-126 | | GREAVES, Henry [Harry] Sidon. pp 25-31 | | HAGER, Carl Otto. pp 14-5 | | HITCHIN, Thomas Henry. pp 65-66 | | HOETS, John George Douglas. pp 40 | | HOWARD, Adolph Gislingham. pp 31-32 | | JONES, Herbert Thomas. pp 114-115 | | KENDALL, Franklin Kaye. pp 103-104 | | KÖHLER, William Henry. pp 16-17 | | LYON and FALLON. pp 107-108 | | MASEY, Francis Edward. pp 96-103 | | MORRIS, James. pp 105 | | PARKER, John. pp 76 | | PERRY, John. pp 127-128 | | RANSOME, George. pp 33-40 | | REID, Harry Austin. pp 32-33 | | REVELEY, Henry Willey. pp 12-13 | | SCHUTTE, Herman. pp 7-11 | | SEELIGER, Johann Carl Ernest. pp 113 | | SIMPKIN, Edward. pp 41-42 | | SKIRROW, John. pp 11-12 | | SLADDIN, Thomas Arthur. pp 68-69 | | SMITH, Charles Henry. pp 55-57 | | SOLOMON, Joseph Michael. pp 122-124 | | SPARMANN, Carel. pp 14 | | TULLY, John Collingwood. pp 71-75 | | VIXSEBOXSE, Johannes Egbertus. pp 57-59 | | WALGATE and ELSWORTH. pp 109-112 |
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