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This clip has been edited from a number of videos that comprise the Abe Mirvish Video Series. This clip shows the procession of the Opening of Parliament in Cape Town, a hike in Jonkershoek, and a child's party.

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Scan of a handwritten Mirvish Family Tree from 1800 to 1980.

Photograph of Mr Hyman and Yetta Narunsky. This photographed is dated to the 1800's.

Photograph of framed Yiddish artifact, dated 1818. At the very end is the inscription, "Zvi Hirsh Aylenberg born 15 October 1818. Krakau, 14 February 1881."

Artwork by Charles Bell of Muizenberg c. 1839, with an oxen drawn cart.

Handwritten documentation of the registration of Zundel Blieden's family in Staro-Shagaren, Lithuania (Žagarė, Lithuania), 1848. Zundel Blieden (1814-c1882) was a grain merchant. He married Nese Saganowsky (1814 – c1887) and they had nine children, 5 sons and 4 daughters. Their children were Benjamin Blieden (1834 – 1890), Jacob (Yankel) Blieden (1835-1912), Abraham Blieden (1843 – 1939), Feige Latzky (nee Blieden) (1843 -1919), Sheine (Jennie) Tort (nee Blieden) (1844-1930), Yehuda (Julius) Blieden (1851- 1904), Marcus (Mordechai) Blieden (1852-1913), Freida Wolfson (nee Blieden) (1855-1923) and Jacha Blieden. This document lists Zundel, his wife Nese, sons Benjamin, Yankel, Abraham and daughters Feige and Sheine. It also lists Zundel's brothers Ber, Grisha and Leiba and his sister-in- law Leah, wife of Leiba.

List of Jewish people who have lived in Robertson at some time from its establishment as a town in 1853 to the present (1986).

Photograph of City Council of Port Elizabeth Centenary Year 1860 - 1960. Triennial Period September, 1960. Back row: P.W. Anderson, C. Fuller-Peterson, Dr J.S. Lewis, C.T. Boast, Mayor C.V. Tiran, D. Murray Nobbs, F.E. Jenvey, G.C. Stegman, L.N. Prosser, D.L. Becke. Second row: A. Barris, E.L. Chaplin, Graham Young, N.P. Rademeyer, C.R. Mangold, M.S. Davies, A. Marock, J.L. McHardy, S.S. Schultz, E.R. Invernizzi. Sitting: D.A. Bradley, C.M.S. Gelvan, I. Dubb, A. Schauder, M. van der Vyver, His Worship the Mayor (Alfred Markman), G.H. Brewer, J.S. Young, E.M. Holland, J.C.K. Erasmus, J.R. Pearson.

Photograph of the death certificate of Henrietta Finestone (1861 -1918) of 42 Scott Road, Woodstock, Cape Town. Her son David died a day after her demise. She is buried in the 7th Ave cemetery, Maitland, Cape Town and is listed as Henrietta Leah Feinstone. Source: South African Archives.

Photograph of the grave of Isidor Blumberg (1877-1918) a cattle speculator and butcher from Carnarvon, Cape Province. He and his wife died 3 days apart of the Spanish Flu and are buried besides one another in the Britstown Cemetery. The two graves are joined with the epitaph " LOVING & PLEASANT IN THEIR LIVES & IN THEIR DEATH NOT DIVIDED".