Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Ray Ryan Collection
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- RY
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Description area
Dates of existence
1960s - 1980s
History
Ray Ryan was a well-known Cape photographer and the 1078 photographs in his collection deals mostly with historical houses and buildings, churches, nature, mountain passes, monuments and statues, etc. He was also an instructor at the Ruth Prowse School of Art and his particular focus was the architecture of the Western Cape. In his book 'Beautiful Homesteads of the Western Cape' (1972) his enthusiasm for our endemic architecture may be seen.
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Cape Province.
Western Cape.
Western Cape.
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Control area
Authority record identifier
RY
Institution identifier
KAB
Rules and/or conventions used
ISAAR
Status
Draft
Level of detail
Partial
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
19 December 2023 (creation Marise Bronkhorst)
Language(s)
- English