Caption "EW 10. Looking up Bashee R., from National Road bridge. Virtually denuded of shrub. Nov. 1963."

Caption "EW 10. Looking down Bashee R., from National Road bridge. Banks virtually denuded and only the lightest scrub on hills ½-mile away there is dense scrub up the valley. Nov. 1963."

Original hand-written caption "Row of pines in Alexandria Road, King Williams Town, the main thoroughfare of the national road through the town, each with a notice bearing a word which in the end made a sentence inviting people to attend the Dutch Reformed Church Bazaar. Strangely though the wording is in English, not in Afrikaans”.

Original hand-written caption "Sheer vandalism at East London. The road through the beautiful Fort Grey Forest Reserve, Buffalo Pan at east London. Only a strip of 50 yards wide has been left at the right. All the beautiful forest has been removed to make way for a pineapple research station. This is a public scandal”.

Original hand-written caption "This is the only forest in the world where the species of tree known as Mtisa [Umtisa] grows. A prominent member of parliament secured the contract for removing and selling sneezewood and birchwood trees”.

Caption "TW 14. Log washed down the Great Fish river jammes against the pillars near Eastpost station, Bedford. Oct. 1962. Tree looked like a Weeping Willow."

Caption "Old saw-pit in receding forest, Nqantosi area, Upper Kubusie, Stutterheim. One figure in the pit, one on edge. Bole of latifolius yellow-wood at the edge. 1959."

Caption "Old engine used for drawing timber in Pirie Forest [illegible]. K Williams Town [King William's Town]."

Caption "Pine trees cut to allow passage of telephone wires, Graaff-Reinet street. June 1959."

Caption: “Stump of Blue Gum Tree at Burgersdorp. 1965. The plate bears the inscription: Blougomboom 90 Jaar oud. Grootste boom in N.O. Kaapland. Onder hierdie boom waterskema geopen 1898. Doodvonnis oor Burger P. Klopper uitgespreek in Anglo Boere oorlog. Gesamentlike Diens gehou met vorming van Unie van Suid Afrika. Gedenkplaat onthul met eeufees ossewatrek op Burgersdorp, 12 Oktober 1938.”