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an entire architectural totality. Naturally, except in extremely remote rural areas
virtually untouched by the technological age (and there are still such areas in the

Cape), or in open-air-museum-like, controlled, and consequently somewhat artificial
conditions, such a loss of character will ultimately be unavoidable.

It is because of all of this that the photographs of Arthur Elliott, in addition to their
own intrinsic value as works of art, will become ever more valuable as documents of

a time that is forever gone.

References

Fransen, H. (1993) A Cape Camera – The Architectural Beauty of the Old Cape –

Photographs from the Arthur Elliott Collection in the Cape Archives, AD. Donker
Publisher and Jonathan Bull Publishers, Johannesburg.

Lighton, C. (1956) Arthur Elliott - a memoir of the man and the story of his
photographic collection, Cape Town.

Laidler, P. W. (1940) Arthur Elliott - a sentimental appreciation. Cape Town.

Fairbridge, D. (1922) Historic Houses of South Africa, London, Cape Town.

Fairbridge, D. (1931) Historic Farms of South Africa, London.

Pearse, G. F. (1968) Eighteenth-century architecture in South Africa, London.

Pearse, G. F. (1960) Eighteenth-century furniture in South Africa, Pretoria.

De Bosdari, C. (1964) Cape Dutch Houses and Farms,