BC 1421 Mountain Club of South Africa CONTENTS A Constitution, club badge and certificates for Club membership and achievement B Minutes C Office records and administration D Circulars and newsletters (Club publications and newsletters) E Hut registers F Climbing records, guides and expeditions G Mountaineering history H Photographs J Newspaper clippings K Maps L Environmental bodies M Published and unpublished material N Miscellaneous 1 A Constitution, club badge and certificates for Club membership and achievement A 1 Proceedings leading up to the adoption of new constitution of MCSA on 05/12/1980 Includes Correspondence and minutes of meetings, 1977-1980 A 2 Material relating to The Club Badge. See also Oversize folder Includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, abstracts, 1892-1963 A 3 Certificates See also Oversize folder A 4 Catalogue of Lantern Slides Includes newspaper clippings, photographs and correspondence, 1927, 1991 B Minutes B 1 General Committee of the Mountain Club of South Africa Minute Books (some have indexes) B 1.1 Volume I, 23/10/1891-20/11/1895 B 1.2 Volume II, 12/04/1897-18/09/1908 B 1.3 Volume III, 26/10/1899-31/07/1911 B 1.4 Volume IV, 12/01/1912-08/08/1915 B 1.5 Volume V, Aug 1915-Oct 1919 B 1.6 Volume VI, 10/11/1919-11/10/1926 B 1.7 Volume VII, 13/12/1926-11/06/1941 B 1.8 Volume VIII, 09/07/1941-14/12/1949 Includes rules of MCSA and constitution B 1.9 Volume IX, 09/12/1949-09/03/1955 Includes Du Toit’s Kloof Hut rule B 1.10 Volume X, 25/03/1955-18/12/1961 B 1.11 Volume XI, 08/01/1962-20/06/1969 B 1.12 Volume XII, 09/07/1969-12/12/1979 B 1.13 Book 1, 27/03/1953-15/04/1970 2 B 2 Central Committee of Mountain Club of South Africa Book 1, 27/03/1953-15/04/1970 B 3 Natural History Branch of the Mountain Club of South Africa, Cape Town Section, 21/11/1893-23/02/1901 C Office records and administration C 1 Club premises C 1.1 Hatfield St Building plans and construction matters, 1953-1973 C 1.2 Club premises: opening ceremony Admission of visitors to Hall, 03/10/1979 List of attendees, photographs, rules regarding access to the Club Premises C 1.3 The Club House List of contributors to the building and furnishing funds; Club House Anniversary; proposed Club House, 1960 C 1.4 Re Sal Mansions; complaint re Jewish Community Hall; proposed Club House and furnishing funds, 1957-1964 C 1.5 Club Rooms Lease agreement between the Yorkshire Insurance Company Ltd and the Mountain Club of South Africa (Cape Town Section) C 1.6 Epediascope and projector Correspondence re items purchased and donated to the Club, 1927-1951 C 2 Club properties C 2.1 General land acquisition List of thank you letters, 1984-1986 C 2.2 The Alpine Club Centenary Dinner, 06/11/1957 3 Programme and photograph of Tenzig and Travers-Jackson C 2.3 Du Toit’s Kloof Property: contract for building, tenders and evaluation Correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs and plans, 1947-1970. Plans in OS C 2.4 Waaihoeksberg List of donors who contributed to the Waaihoeksberg Fund. C 3 Table Mountain C 3.1 The Table Mountain Hut Correspondence, 1895-1980 C 3.2 The ascent of Table Mountain C 3.3 Table Mountain Rock Climbs A classified list of routes C 3.4 Table Mountain Catchment Area Re regulations 1904/5, 1914, 1932/3 Includes a plan in OS C 3.5 Table Mountain Cableway Correspondence, 1926-1940, minutes of the meetings of Finance and General Purposes Committee, 1926 C 3.6 Table Mountain Preservation Committee C 3.6.1 Reports, 20/06/1951 C 3.6.2 Reports on 1950 and 1974 comprehensive C 3.6.3 Correspondence, 1900-1944 C 3.7 Information regarding the recent fire on Table Mountain Discussion paper, 26/01/1987 C 3.8 Roads, jeep tracks, paths, buildings and control Report, 1974, includes photographs C 3.9 Documents re care of and concern for Table Mountain and the Peninsula Mountains down through the Club’s history. See also maps 4 C 3.9.1 Early eradication of alien plants and trees, 1916-1945 C 3.9.2 Correspondence re preservation of Table Mountain, 1974-1979 C 4 “Memorials for Dr Marloth; Maclear’s Beacon; top of memorials in general; Platteklip Gorge; and Honourable J C Smuts, 1921-1964” C 5 Membership cards, dinner cards, correspondence re-. 1893-1984 Also - Photograph of D G Mills - Jubilee Commemoration Dinner and centenary celebrations, 1941, 1991 C 6 Defalcations Minutes, correspondence and reports, 1933-1938 C 7 Major disasters and emergency services C 7.1 Major disasters, emergency services, maritime command, search and rescue, 1975-1978 Includes occurrence book of the Search and Rescue Committee, Cape Town Section, 09/03/1972-12/12/1983 C 7.2 Search and rescue, insurance of members, miscellaneous correspondence, Morphine: permission to stock, reports on accidents, snake bite treatment, radio licenses, helicopters and flood lights, 1900-1965 C 7.3 Cape Fire Protection and Fire Fighting Minutes of the meetings of Cape Peninsula Fire Protection Committee, 1921- 1953 C8 Miscellaneous Agreement made and entered into by and between Stephan Adrian Craven and The South African Library D Circulars and newsletters D 1 Circulars, nos. 1-579, 1904-1997 Includes Memorandum of agreement entered into between David Reuben Susman and Fizantakraal Farm (Pty) Ltd and Du Toit’s Kloof Protea Park (Pty) Ltd and the Mountain Club of South Africa (Cape Town Section), 28/07/1989 Minutes of the meetings of Access and land Acquisition Sub-committee, 1997-1998 5 D 2 Extra circulars, 1959-1974 (duplicates) D 3 Mountain Ears: the official newsletter of the Cape Town Section , 1986-1995 D4 The Mountain Club Annual Facsimile Reprint Correspondence, reserve slips, notices, application forms, etc. 1994-1999 E Hut registers E 1 Agtertafelberg Hut , 1967-1996, 1996-2009 E 2 Banhoekhut, 10/10/1963-01/12/1989 E 3 Club House (visitors’ books) E 3.1Register, 03/09/1941-15/03/1957 E 3.2 Register, 09/10/1959-01/12/1967 E 3.3 Register, 01/12/1967-28/11/1980 E 3.4 Register, 19/12/1980-07/06/2001 E 4 Du Toit’s Kloof E 4.1 Members , 1949-1976 E 4.2 Non-members , 1949-1976 E 5 Steenbokberg Hut , 23/24 Jan 1982-13/06/1998 Includes Perry Refuge, 1957 E 6 Table Mountain Hut Registers E 6.1 Visitors’ book: (Municipal ranger Mr Fox), 23/02/1889-22/02/1896 E 6.2 Members’ registers E 6.2.1 Hut Register, 16/12/1905-19/01/1920 E 6.2.2 Hut Register, 23/01/1918-14/12/1926 E 6.2.3 Hut Register, 16/12/1926-29/11/1931 E 6.2.4 Hut Register, 01/12/1931-24/10/1937 E 6.2.5 Hut Register, 12/11/1937-10/08/1941 6 E 6.2.6 Hut Register, 10/08/1941-22/07/1945 E 6.2.7 Hut Register, 22/07/1945-13/02/1949 E 6.2.8 Hut Register, 13/02/1949-11/12/1955 E 6.2.9 Hut Register, 17/12/1955--25/12/1961 E 6.2.10 Hut Register, 26/01/1961-01/01/1973 E 6.2.11 Hut Register, 02/01/1973-22/12/1979 E 6.2.12 Hut Register, 22/12/1979-26/05/1984 E 6.2.13 Hut Register, 20/05/1984-04/09/1994 E 6.2.14 Hut Register, 03/04/1994-05/07/1998 E 6.2.15 Hut Register, 25/07/1998-17/02/2004 E 6.2.16 Hut Register, 17/02/2004-17/12/2006 E 6.3 Non-members’ registers E 6.3.1 Hut Register, 16/12/1905-29/09/1919 E 6.3.2 Hut Register, 31/08/1919-07/11/1926 E 6.3.3 Hut Register, 11/11/1926-09/12/1930 E 6.3.4 Hut Register, 18/10/1930-17/10/1937 E 6.3.5 Hut Register, 24/10/1937-10/08/1941 E 6.3.6 Hut Register, 17/08/1941-22/07/1945 E 6.3.7 Hut Register, 22/07/1945-13/02/1949 E 6.3.8 Hut Register, 14/02/1949-16/12/1955 E 6.3.9 Hut Register, 18/12/1955-31/12/1979 E 6.3.10 Hut Register, 31/12/1979-19/11/1998 E 6.3.11 Hut Register, 19/11/1998-06/02/2004 F Climbing records, guides and expeditions F 1 Club records F 1.1 3 Cedarberg Tafelberg ascents (statistics), 1896-1930 7 F 1.2 10 Old climbing records, 21/12/1913-06/11/1927 F 1.3 19 Rock climbs in the Magaliesberg, 1965 F 1.4 20 Rock climbs in the Magaliesberg, 3 rd edition: 1967 F 1.5 24 Rock climbing committee Rock climbing meets, 1959-1972 F 1.6 25 List of Natal Drakensberg climbs F 1.7 26 Rock climbing accidents (reports, newspaper clippings, correspondence), 1955-1967 F 1.8 27 Accounts on trips, reports and poems, 1930-1934 F 1.9 31 Mountain trips, 1927-1938 F 1.10 32 Mountain trips. List of mountaineers who participated in various mountain trips, 1938-1960: Florence, C (1258), West (408), Muir (295), Primos (224), White (192), M Hyslop (225?), Slim (157), Webb (146), Gordon (128), Black (122), Croxford (111), I Windsor (112), Wright (93), Russel (90), Barnard (89), Moag (194), Izard (84), Payne (109), Thorpe (79), R Hallack (73), Liddle (69) and Travers- Jackson (56) F 1.11 33 Climbing records, 1949-1955 F 2 Individual climbing records F 2.1 J Berrisford, 1912-1922 F 2.2 K Cameron Mountaineering trips, excursions and climbs from Feb 1905-Dec 1912 F 2.3 Diary of Henry Lewis Harris, 24/01/1891-08/11/1896 F 2.4 G F T Jackson’ jnr F 2.4.1 08/01/1899-27/02/1904, Vol.