Cape Town, District Six Museum ; District Six Museum, Cape Town
Photographs and information on a bell housed at the District Six Museum in Cape Town. The museum houses a bell that used to belong to Orangezicht, a suburb on the south side of the city that was occupied as a farm by the Van Breda-family until 1947, with 7 successive generations. It lies on one of the slopes of the beautiful Table Mountain. On the farm the bell was used as a slave bell. Because of this historic background the bell, dating from 1776, was incorporated into the collection of the District-6 Museum in 1996. The bell belonged to the VOC. It was probably founded by Cyprianus Crans, w... Mehr ...
Dokumenttyp: | Image |
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Erscheinungsdatum: | 2014 |
Schlagwörter: | District Six Museum / Van Breda family / Oranjezicht (Cape Town / South Africa) -- History / Cape Town (South Africa) -- Bells / Bells -- South Africa -- History / Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie / Crans / Cyprianus / Grave / Jan Albert de |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-29144660 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/10019.2/4256 |