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armament accessory, ethnographic: shield
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documentary artifact: coin, commemorative
documentary artifact: ship plan: docking(part)
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Sun compass
Sun compass box
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, sun
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water transport: fighting vessel: frigate (HMS)
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Schenck, Emil Ernst Friedrich T
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Cape of Good Hope, Western Cape, South Africa
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Azalea (1971)
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Sun compass
A Naval battery at one of the emplacements outside Ladysmith during the siege. (Roll film negative)
'Dwelling Tent immediately under the Station peak on Riebecks Kasteel' (Print)
A large number of parked cars in Cape Town, South Africa (Colour transparency)
Adderley Street in Cape Town, South Africa (Colour transparency)
A street view in Cape Town, South Africa (Colour transparency)
A view overlooking the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. (Colour transparency)
Three baboons climbing onto a car in the Cape Point Nature Reserve near the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. (Colour transparency)
A display of fish inside the Natural History Museum in Cape Town, South Africa (Colour transparency)
An obscured view of the Tikvath Israel Synagogue in Cape Town, South Africa (Colour transparency)
Driving along Chapman's Peak Drive in Cape Town, South Africa (Colour transparency)
A half length portrait of a 6 year girl named Cheryl at Cape Point in Cape Town, South Africa (Colour transparency)
A view of the Kommetje Hotel near Cape Town, South Africa (Colour transparency)
A partial view of the Seafarer's Club Building in Cape Town, South Africa (Colour transparency)
A distant front view of the South African National Gallery in Cape Town, South Africa (Colour transparency)
A partial view of the Castle Military Museum in Cape Town, South Africa (Colour transparency)
A view overlooking the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa (Colour transparency)
The entrance to the Governor's Quaters inside the Castle Military Museum complex in Cape Town, South Africa (Colour transparency)
Natal cotton field (Photograph)
Shield
Penny (Coin - penny)
A group photograph of the principle officers at Durban (Roll film negative)
'The Zodiacal Light, as seen on the Breede River at the Cape of Good Hope, June 1844' (Print)
Looking forward from the gantry of the fishing stern trawler Salvia (1972) berthed in Cape Town, South Africa. (Colour transparency)
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