The collection contains various published items, as well as a news clip with the obituary for William ('Bill') Sutherland, a stalwart in the Labour co-operative movement in South Africa, who resided in Matatiele, East Griqualand (n.d.).
The photographs are historical images of gold mining in South Africa, taken around the late 1800s to beginning 1900s. Many of the images provide a rare insight into the underground world of deep level mining on the Rand, showing miners at work, as well as mining structures and operations.
Includes correspondence in connection with the work of the Committee; copies of statements made by witnesses submitting evidence; draft report and mimeographed copy of final report afterwards published by the Government Printer, Pretoria, 1941. Also press clippings on the history of the gold-fields.
'Journal of a cruise on the Tanganyika lake, Central Africa' and 'Captain J.H. Speke's discovery of the victoria Nyanza Lake, the supposed source of the Nile from his journal' 1859. Printer's proof copy interleaved with extensive Ms noted by the author.
'Dagelijckse aantekening van mij Joannes van Steelant vertreckende van Batavia uijt India ...'
Journal in Dutch kept by J. van Steelant on the voyage from Batavia via the Cape of Good Hope to the Netherlands on the ship 'Sandenburg'. Van Steelant was returning with his family after a stay in Batavia of over 30 years during which he served as Governor and Director and Member of the Extraordinary Council of the Dutch East Indies.