Identity area
Type of entity
Donor
Authorized form of name
Cobern Collection
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
- COB
Other form(s) of name
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Contact area
Description area
Dates of existence
1960s - 1990
History
Malcolm Cobern was the photographer of the Cape Archives during the 1970’s. Much of the photographs in the CA Collection were taken by him. The photographs, slides and negatives in the Coburn Collection were donated to the archives in 2003 by his widow.
1 – 599 colour slides: Cape Town buildings and streets 1960s – 1990s
600 – 1555 black and white negatives: Train stations; trains; Copper Railway and mines in Namaqualand; towns and caravan parks in Namaqualand, West Coast, Karoo and Namibia; museums; ships; battlefields; and trains and railways in German South West Africa (Namibia).
1 – 599 colour slides: Cape Town buildings and streets 1960s – 1990s
600 – 1555 black and white negatives: Train stations; trains; Copper Railway and mines in Namaqualand; towns and caravan parks in Namaqualand, West Coast, Karoo and Namibia; museums; ships; battlefields; and trains and railways in German South West Africa (Namibia).
Places
Cape Province
Namibia
Namibia
Legal status
Functions, occupations and activities
Mandates/sources of authority
Internal structures/genealogy
General context
Relationships area
Access points area
Subject access points
Place access points
Occupations
Control area
Authority record identifier
COB
Institution identifier
KAB
Rules and/or conventions used
ISAAR
Status
Draft
Level of detail
Partial
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
13 October 2023 (creation Marise Bronkhorst)
Language(s)
- English
Script(s)
- Latin