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Historic Photographs
Johannesburg's Camera Obscura and a world-class photographic collection
Carl Bluhm's contribution to early Eastern Cape photography - A career tragically cut short
South Africa’s Three Photographers named Kisch (1863 – 1902)
Potch pets in old pictures
Diamond Smugglers' Aircraft on a Deserted Beach - Unravelling the story around discarded crime scene photographs
George Washington Wilson - The man, The Company and The Photographers
Operators of “Mirrors with Memory” South African Photographers (1846 to 1915)
Use of vintage photographs in narrating visual history - Beitbridge under construction (1928 – 1930)
Sit! Stay! More than a century ago - South African pet canines in front of the lens
1950 Commemorative Booklet reveals wonderful photographs of Jan Smuts
Dormant Graaff-Reinet Museum Photographic Collection sees the light - Roe & Son studio images of the local Black community
Where there was gold there were photographers - Barberton Goldrush
Latent South African Visual History - Magic lantern slides
Billy Monk was a Loaded Gun - A Treasure Trove of Photographs of Cape Town in the 1960s
Unpacking the history behind this 1919 Ravenscroft photograph
The Caney Legacy - Early Durban based family of photographers
Passionate about tennis - A South African photo album of historical significance (1909 - 1913)
It’s a match! Early Tweddill photograph and portrait painting matched
Let’s Play - South African children photographed with their Victorian & Edwardian toys
Ten South African based German Missionaries Photographed
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The Blaauwkrantz Bridge Disaster
Hidden Treasures of the Riemland
Memorials to the Zulu dead at Isandlwana
Joburg personalities from the first decade of the 21st century
A Brief History of Indian Indenture in South Africa
Some early Piquetberg farms illustrated by Johannes Cornelius Poortermans
The Dube Story
Looking back at the Woolff Restoration of the Donkin Row Houses
Asian food snails in Zoo Lake - A living legacy of Chinese indentured labourers on the gold fields of 1904?
6 National Heritage Sites - Commemoration of Nelson Mandela 6 years on
The Grave Story of Rietfontein (Sizwe) Hospital
The search for Enoch Sontonga
Blue plaques and a new heritage route for Jeppe Boys
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