Special Collections finding aids

Special Collections finding aids

 

Finding aids for collections housed at the University of Pretoria Special Collections.

For further enquiries please contact the Special Collections office:

(012) 420 2808

or

nikki.haw@up.ac.za

Recent Submissions

  • The Jurriaanse Collection - Inventory 
    (1976)
    Dr Aart Jurriaanse, a Dutchman, studied medicine in the Netherlands and came to South Africa during the Anglo Boer War with a medical corps in aid of the Boers. He stayed on in South Africa after the war and worked as a ...
  • Archival listing and Inventory of the Servaas de Kock Collection 
    Hollamby, Tayla (2023)
    Servaas de Kock (1858-1933) was an assistant Surveyor General of the ZAR from 1884 and a surveyor for the department of lands of the Transvaal Colony. He was part of the Transvaal Portuguese demarcation commission in 1894. ...
  • Archival listing and Inventory of the Nusas-Ans Collection 
    Hollamby, Tayla (2023)
    This collection was bequeathed by Dirk Willem Rÿk Hertsog (1856-1939), the oldest brother of the South African Prime Minister, General JBM Hertzog, in 1939. The collection consists of one box containing correspondence, ...
  • Archival listing and Inventory of the Johannes Anthonius Moesman Collection 
    Hollamby, Tayla (2023)
    Johannes Anthonius Moesman (1859-1937) was an art printer from Utrecht in the Netherlands. He created a large amount of advertising materials for companies and published media during the time of the ZAR ca. 1890-1899. The ...
  • Archival listing and Inventory of the Geoffrey Cronje Collection 
    Hollamby, Tayla (2023)
    Prof Geoffrey Cronjé (1907-1992) was a sociologist, criminologist and founder of the Department of Drama at the University of Pretoria. Cronjé donated his collection of documents of the committee on the funding of voluntary ...
  • Archival listing and Inventory of the Dr Nicolaas Marais Hoogenhout Collection 
    Hollamby, Tayla (2023)
    Dr Nicolaas Marais Hoogenhout (1876-1932) donated this collection 1933. Hoogenhout was very involved in education in the Transvaal Colony from 1904. He was the Vice Chancellor and Principal of the University of Pretoria ...
  • Archival listing and Inventory of the ARNDT Manuscript Collection 
    Hollamby, Tayla (2023)
    The Arndt Collection was the collection of Prof Ernst Heinrich Daniël Arndt (1899-1983) who was a professor at the University of Pretoria from 1925 to 1942. He became the registrar of banks in 1942, the deputy manager of ...
  • Natural and Agricultural Sciences - Faculty Specific Material 
    Haw, Nikki (2023)
  • Du Plessis Collection Finding Aid 
    Haw, Nikki (Department of Library Services, University of Pretoria, 2019)
    Prof Johannes du Plessis (1868-1935), was a theologian, traveller, missionary and writer. His book collection was purchased by the University in 1939 and is split into an Africana collection, housed in our Africana section ...
  • Faculty-specific resource lists 
    Haw, Nikki (Department of Library Services, University of Pretoria, 2019)
    These finding aids are intended to assist with faculty-specific searches for resources held in Special Collections. These lists should not be considered as absolutely comprehensive, but will show researchers the majority ...
  • Mimi Coertse Sheet Music Collection Finding Aid 
    Haw, Nikki (Department of Library Services, University of Pretoria, 2019)
    Mimi Coertse is an internationally acclaimed South African soprano. The Mimi Coertse Collection includes sheet music, CDs, and books, as well as personal items such as opera dresses, correspondence, albums, paintings and ...
  • Pamphlet Collection Finding Aid (in progress) 
    Haw, Nikki; Mabena, Sonto (Department of Library Services, University of Pretoria, 2019)
    The Special Collections Pamphlets Collection consists of a wide variety of subjects relating to South Africa and is of important historical value. The collection is not yet comprehensively catalogued, and this finding aid ...
  • Archival listing and inventory of the: Jacob de Villiers Roos (JVRoos) [1869-1940] Historical Manuscript Collection 
    De la Harpe, Michelle (Department of Library Services, University of Pretoria, 2018)
    Jacob de Villers Roos (1869-1940) was a journalist, advocate, Secretary of Justice for the Transvaal, Director of Prisons, Auditor-General of the Union of South Africa from 1918-1929, financier and founder of the Transvaal ...
  • F. Z. van der Merwe sheet music collection 
    Van der Merwe, F.Z. (1994)
    Dr. FZ van der Merwe was a medical doctor with an exceptional interest in the identification, collection and preservation of South African sheet music. His collection, which he bequeathed to the University of Pretoria, now ...
  • Van Warmelo collection (finding aid) 
    Van Warmelo, N.J. (Nicolaas Jacobus), 1904- (1989)
    List of manuscripts collected by Dr NJ Van Warmelo from the Xhosa, Zulu, Swazi, Tsonga, South-Sotho, Tswana, North-Sotho and Venda cultures.