Arthur Elliott (photographer)

[5] He tried his hand at various jobs such as scene-painter and production manager at the Luscombe Searelle Acting Company in Johannesburg.

Kendall's article on Cape architecture), in 1926 (with an introduction by Sir George Cory, the historian),[11][12] another in 1930, arranged by W.R.

[13] His final exhibition, in 1938, was titled "The Cape, Quant and Beautiful” and included a catalogue edited by Victor de Kockin.

Elliott seems to have been determined to record as much as he was able of the old farmhouses, buildings and streets that were rapidly disappearing with the ever-growing pressure to modernize.

The Elliott Collection, as his set of images came to be called, has been used extensively by authors writing about all aspects of old Cape architecture.