Historic Photographs

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1950 Commemorative Booklet reveals wonderful photographs of Jan Smuts
A Century of Stories: Celebrating Carol Hardijzer’s 100th Contribution to South African Photographic History
A Chance in a Million - Identical photographs found on different continents
A Family History Finds Its Way Home: The Nattrass/Beadle Story
A few photographs of Johannesburg at the turn of the 20th century
A life synopsis intuited from a single Cabinet Card - Thomas Stork (1872-1953)
A post Boer War letter from a Rooinek to a Dutch Girl
A reflection on the South African Real Photo Postcard (RPPC) -  1902 to the 1930's
A remarkable album of early 20th century views of Johannesburg
A remarkable Pretorian: Photographer Dotman Pretorius (1917-1999)
A Sandstone Architect of Oudtshoorn
A South African Maritime Catastrophe photographed
Abandoned photograph of significance - Groot-Spelonken School Journey, July 1916
Abdul Rahim Munshi - Possibly South Africa’s First Recorded Studio Photographer of Colour
Aerial photographs that tell two stories!
Amazing Photographs of Historic Nedbank Branches
An early South African Philaphotographologist - Frederick William Willis
An elegant lady photographed - Hildagonda Johanna Duckitt (1839 to 1905)
Ancestors On the Wall - Early South African Wall-Mounted Photographic Portraits
Anglo-Boer War sketches, Magic Lanterns and the Lanternist
Anglo-Boer War Stereo Photographs - Produced by Keystone View Company
Anglo-Boer War Stereo Photographs Produced by B.W. Kilburn & Co
Anglo-Boer War - Stereo Photographs produced by Underwood & Underwood 
Anglo-Zulu War 1879 - Some personalities photographed
Arthur Edward Green - Soldier, hunter, engineer, traveller & amateur photographer
Barnett's Views of Johannesburg and Suburbs - A window on the world that was early Johannesburg
Behind the Lens - 50 plus German-born photographers active in South Africa between 1846 and 1915
Billy Monk was a Loaded Gun - A Treasure Trove of Photographs of Cape Town in the 1960s
Botched South African amateur snapshots (1920s - 1940s)
Bygone fortune seeker and rail restauranteur Theodor Fiebiger
Café Bibles: Contemporary Photographic Africana - Photo-stories / Fotoverhale (1950s to 1980s)
Cape Town Photographs by TP and TD Ravenscroft
Car spotting at the Kruger National Park in the 1970s
Carl Bluhm's contribution to early Eastern Cape photography - A career tragically cut short
Carl Friedrich Adolf Wundram - Piet Retief’s only recorded photographer between the 1890s and 1910
Century old photographs reveal the story of James Gribble, Paarl based photographer
Construction of Graaff-Reinet’s Van Ryneveld’s Pass Dam Wall (1920-1925) - Three photographic collections present a historic engineering narrative
David Stewart Howie - Anglo-Boer War Correspondent and Amateur Photographer
Deep-level mining photography: The Elusive Neilson Brothers demystified - with additional information on James Wilbur Read
Diamond Smugglers' Aircraft on a Deserted Beach - Unravelling the story around discarded crime scene photographs
Discarded Family History: My Life Story – Lorna Edna Nattrass (1906-2000)
DocuFest Africa - Showcasing rare and unusual images of life in South Africa during Apartheid
Dormant Graaff-Reinet Museum Photographic Collection sees the light - Roe & Son studio images of the local Black community
Early 20th Century Asylum photography in South Africa
Early Ethno-Photography and the Picture Postcard - A South African perspective
Early Heidelberg through the eyes of a deltiologist
Early Middelburg through the eyes of two deltiologists
Early Missionary Photography in the Namaqualand
Early Potchefstroom-based photographers (1850s to 1920s)
Early Standerton through the eyes of a deltiologist
East London's Father of Photography - Osborne Morley (1850-1926)
Enigmatic Johannesburg-based Female Photographer, Jane Plotz
Enigmatic pre-1875 South African Carte de Visite Hand-Colourists
Forbidden Images (1960s to 1980s) - Illegal photographs captured by young men conscripted into the South African Military
George Washington Wilson - The man, The Company and The Photographers
Henri Ferdinand Gros - Pretoria’s first permanently based photographer, 1875 to 1890
HF Gros and his remarkable collection of early Transvaal Photographs
Historic photographs of Apartheid Johannesburg in the 1980s
Historical Photographs and the South African Law
Hunter and hunted photographed - Early South African hunting photographs (1860s to 1910)
Interpreting Historical South African Photographs (1860s – 1970s)
It’s a match! Early Tweddill photograph and portrait painting matched
JC Munro - Pretoria's longest serving photographer during the turn of the 20th century
Johannesburg in postcards 1904-08
Johannesburg's Camera Obscura and a world-class photographic collection
Kate’s Legacy - Seeking the family of an abandoned box of beautiful old photographs
Latent South African Visual History - Magic lantern slides
Let’s Play - South African children photographed with their Victorian & Edwardian toys
Mystery photographs of two forgotten Salvation Army jamborees in South Africa
Old Images of South Africa's Town Halls
On the lighter side - Some funny and peculiar South African vintage photographs
One photograph – Seven Afrikaans-speaking Rhodes Scholars at Oxford University (1939)
Operators of “Mirrors with Memory” South African Photographers (1846 to 1915)
Passionate about tennis - A South African photo album of historical significance (1909 - 1913)
Perfect nuisance and as mad as a hatter - Rudolf Gottfried Steger, Pretoria based photographer from 1898-1919
Photographers active in Pretoria - First 60 years (1855-1915)
Photographs of Johannesburg in the late 1950s and early 1960s
Photos of Pageview in 1973
Pioneer Diamond Field Photographers Kimberley (1869 - 1915)
Pogonology: South African men and their facial hair - As portrayed in photographs from the Victorian era
Postmortem Photography in South Africa
Potch pets in old pictures
Pretoria on Parade - A Mystery Photo Album Emerges
Rand Pioneer, Farmer, Prospector, Photographer, Baker, Cook - The Personal Photo Album of Philip Baily Eastwood (1861 – 1917)
Remarkable Photographs Emerge from Joburg Family Archive
Remarkable photographs of a 1970s trip through South West Africa
Researchers excited by exceptional photographic find
Saintly Sights - Pre 1900s Missionary Photography in South Africa - An Interview
Simonstown: A Victorian Photo Album dissected 160 years later
Sit! Stay! More than a century ago - South African pet canines in front of the lens
Six Photographs - 103 Prisoners of War: Some Anglo-Boer War Prisoners of War photographed
Snapshot Photography - Automobiles photographed in South Africa from the 1920s to 1960s
South African medical students in Bonnie Scotland during the 1870s
South African Pavement Photographs (1930s to 1960s) - A Nostalgic reflection
South African Photobooth Nostalgia
South African “Cartomania” - a photographic phenomenon
South Africa’s Oldest Bank - An epic photographic journey
South Africa’s Three Photographers named Kisch (1863 – 1902)
Southern Africa from above: Aerial Photography – A historical overview
Spectacular old photographs of Joburg from above
Stereo Photography - Mesmerising viewers since 1851
Summer holidays, Sunshine, Swimwear, Suntan lotion and Sand buckets - South African Beach Photographers (1930s to 1960s)
TD Ravenscroft and his photography
Ten South African based German Missionaries Photographed
The Caney Legacy - Early Durban based family of photographers
The elusive Neilson brothers - Early 20th century deep-level mining photographers
The man behind one of South Africa's largest private photographic collections - Q&A with Carol Hardijzer
Tintypes - The poor man’s photograph
Unacclaimed South African Railway Photographers (1894 -1940)
Unique Photographs from the Boer War
Unpacking the history behind this 1919 Ravenscroft photograph
Use of vintage photographs in narrating visual history - Beitbridge under construction (1928 – 1930)
Visual Reflection on Pretoria’s early places of Worship - 1857 to the end of the 1920s
Where there was gold there were photographers - Barberton Goldrush
William Roe (1827-1916) - Long serving Graaff-Reinet based photographer
“In Memoriam” - Significance of the photograph during the mourning process
“Presumably a criminal is not always a criminal” - Wakkerstroom’s photographic artist Maximillian Alfred Daubert (1865-1951)