The Cape Monthly Magazine Vol. 11

Collection of original prints inserted in a monthly magazine. A list of photographs published in the magazine is on pages 259-262 of Marjorie Bull and Joseph Denfield's 'Secure the shadow', though it is not entirely complete.

The Cape Monthly Magazine was first published in 1857. In 1859, under new editorship, it began to include actual prints inserted with accompanying text and it appears to be the first publication in South Africa illustrated by this method. The earlier subjects were portraits taken by Frederick Arlington Viler York (1823-1903), but he left South Africa in April 1861 and the illustrations thereafter were by other photographers, including Arthur Green (1832-1873) to whom York sold his business. The latter photographs include scenes as well as portraits. The magazine ceased publication in 1862, and when it was revived in 1870, it did not include photographs.

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Includes index.

A catalogue of the collection can be found on ArchiveSearch.

This collection is available on microfiche: Africa, fiche numbers 192.

See Y3059D-J for Volumes 5-10 of the Cape Monthly Magazine.

Bull, Marjorie and Denfield, Joseph (1970), 'Secure the shadow: the story of Cape photography from its beginnings to the end of 1870', Cape Town: T. McNally.

This collection level description was entered by WS and MJC using information from the original typescript catalogue.

Cape Monthly Magazine