Adderley Street, Cape Town -- a century ago
Adderley Street -- the last of the palm trees along where the beach used to be
African village, South African Republic, late 19th century
Aliwal North, main street -- typical Karoo village
Bedales School, Petersfield
Berg River Valley, 19th century panoramic view
Cactus in flower
Cactus in flower, close-up
Cape coastline
Cape Peninsula -- the Atlantic coastline
Cape Peninsula -- the Twelve Apostles, c. 1900
Cape Peninsula -- Zeekoei Vlei -- boating, 1917
Cape Town -- 19th century street in the Gardens (a suburb)
Adderley Street, Cape Town -- 1860s
Cape Town and Table Bay -- view from Signal Hill, mid 1800s
Cape Town Botanical Gardens in 19th century
Cape Town Castle -- the entrance, early 19th century
Cape Town -- the old road to Hout Bay over Constantia Nek
Convict Crisis -- Protest Meeting in Cape Town, 1849
Cape Town from Table Bay, late 1890s
Devil's Peak, view from the Liesbeek River, 1832
Cape Town Docks, c. 1900
False Bay -- view from Wynberg Hill, mid 19th century
Governor's country residence at Protea, Cape Town, 1832
Cape Town -- Main Road, Claremont, early 20th century
Muizenberg -- bathers on the beach, 1930
Cape Town -- shop on the Main Road, late 19th century
St Saviour's Church graveyard (where Sir John Molteno buried), Cape Town
Cape Town -- suburban railway to Simonstown, c. a century ago
Table Mountain, view from Protea Road, 1834
Surburban railway near St James and Kalk Bay, about a century ago
Church Square, Central Cape Town, today
Cogills Hotel, Main Road, Wynberg, 1870s (Sir Donald Currie and his daughters stayed there)
Collegiate School for Girls, Port Elizabeth, early 20th century
Constantia Berg, view from Bergvliet, c. 1920
Diamond prospecting, alluvial workings, 1919
Diamond prospecting, Mosesberg, 1922
Diamond prospecting -- a sorting table at the Vaal River
Drakensberg near Harrismith
False Bay -- Kalk Bay, Fishhoek and beyond, early 1900s
False Bay -- possibly looking along Fishhoek Beach, c. a century ago
False Bay - view southwards from Kalk Bay, c. a century ago
Farm buildings, Western Cape, dating back to the old days
Farm worker's home in South Africa (exact whereabouts not known)
Farm worker's home, the Karoo, c. 1914
Farm worker's home (location in South Africa and date not known)
Fishhoek -- looking south along the beach, c. 1920
Fitzbillies Restaurant, Cambridge
Geneva, early 1900s
George, Cape Province,(where John Syme's parents were formally married) c. 1914
Gold mining on the Rand -- headgear, sorting house, tailings wheel, collecting vats at New Primrose Mine, early 1890s
Gold mining on the Rand -- surface works at Orion Mine, early 1890s
Gordon's Bay (where Lady Molteno, Sir John Molteno's widow, lived), 1926
Groot Constantia, a 19th century print
Groote Kerk, Cape Town (where Hercules Jarvis was an elder), 1841
Groote Kerk today
Groote Kerk, Cape Town today
Hangklip and the Cape coast (relative in photo not identified)
Hermanus -- as it was in 1921
Hermanus -- the original fishing village, c. 1900
Hong Kong, pre the 1939-45 World Ward
Hottentots Holland Mountains today
Hout Bay -- the Point, c. 1900
Inanda Mission, Zululand -- centenary celebrations, 1940s
Inanda -- the tree where Rev. Lindley (Lucy Mitchell's relative) preached from 1847
Karoo -- a pool at Three Sisters, with the bult beyond
Karoo -- a garden at Three Sisters
Karoo -- the pass through Meirings :Poort, c. 1914
Karoo -- the Swartberg Pass, c. 1916
Katberg Pass -- the old road
Kenya -- African buffalo
Kenya -- Agriculture Show (possibly early 1960s)
Kenya -- buck
Kenya -- Buck in the bush
Kenya -- elephants in the forest
Kenya -- elephants on the way
Kenya -- hippos at home
Kenya -- hyena on the look out
Kenya -- lake with hippos and mountains beyond
Kenya --a lion near Marania
Kenya -- lions, superbly camouflaged
Kenya -- Mount Kenya in the distance
Kenya -- on safari surveying land, prior to 1914-18 War
Kenya -- open savanna
Kenya -- polo ponies
Kenya -- shooting for the pot, c. 1900 (or a bit later)
Kenya -- thick bush
Kenya -- thick bush typical of some parts
Kenya, Kikuyu women, c. 1900
King's College, Cambridge
Kleinmond -- the bay, c. 1921
Knysna, c. 1914
Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve (established with funds from Molteno Brothers Trust)
Koopmans de Wet House, Cape Town
Lion's Head, seen from past Camps Bay, c. 1900
London, view from Tower Bridge, c. 1900
Pall Mall East, looking towards St Martin's in the Fields, late 18th century
London, Regent Street, c. 1900
Somerset House, London -- view from the Thames, 1791
Somerset House, London (where John Molteno worked til 1827)
London -- a typical street in the 1800s
London -- view from London Bridge, 1789 (printed by Molteno & Colnaghi)
Madeira, 1921
Madeira - a Union Castle liner lying off the town, 1921
Molteno, Eastern Cape, South Africa -- signpost
Mountain pass in the Cape
Mountain Pass in Western Cape -- the road up Bains Kloof, January 1917
Mountain scene in South Africa
Mountains in South Africa
Mountains in the Cape -- looking down into the valley below
Mountains in South Africa at sunset
Mountains (possibly the Drakensberg) in the evening light
National Library of South Africa, Cape Town
Norvals Pont on the Orange River, late 1890s
Ohlange High School, founded by Rev. John Dube in 1900
Ohlange Institute established by Rev. John Dube -- the boys building (Betty Molteno had a cottage in the grounds there), 1907
Onrust (on the Atlantic coast below the mountains near Elgin), pre-1914
Upington -- the Orange River
Palmiet River near its mouth (the river upstream flows through the Elgin valley), c. 1921
Pontresina -- Percy Molteno's favourite ski resort (his granddaughter, Loveday Molteno, in foreground, 1933
Port Elizabeth and Algoa Bay, 1890s
Red hot pokers, typical of East & Southern Africa
Rhodes House, Oxford
Rondebosch Common, Cape Town (Charlie Molteno's home, Sandown, was nearby), c. 1914
Royal Hotel (Beaufort West?), with stage coach waiting to depart
Schiehallion in the Highlands -- the family party arrive to climb it
Schiehallion in the Highlands -- Molteno family party at the top, August 1913
Schiehallion -- the Molteno family party reach the top, summer 1913
Schiehallion -- younger members of the family reach the top, August 1913
Schiehallion in the Scottish Highlands
Schiehallion, a crowded summit
Simonstown, 1890s (Vincent Molteno in Royal Navy posted there for a time during World War 1)
Sir Lowry's Pass, the old road to Elgin
St James -- Carisbrooke House, early 1920s
Table Bay -- a storm in the days of sail
Table Bay -- a busy day in the age of sail
Table Bay -- Malay fisherman, early 19th century
Table Bay -- Malay fishermen at work, c. 1844
Table Bay and Table Mountain, mid 19th century
Table Mountain --a kloof on the Claremont side
Table Mountain -- view from Black River bridge at Milnerton, 1920s
Table Mountain with Signal Hill and Lion's Head in front, c. 1936
Table Mountain -- Skeleton Gorge above Newlands
Cape Town, early 1900s
Tsitsikama Forest near Knysna -- a great yellow wood tree, pre-1914
Tsitsikama Forest near Knysna
University of Cape Town (UCT) Jamieson Hall (next to the Library)
Upington, the veld