The primary photograph under discussion in this article is the 8-pane panoramic photograph of early Johannesburg (1888) by the photographer David Hyman Davies.
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BOOK REVIEWS
I purchased this book when it first appeared and have long felt gratitude to the editor and the publisher (Könemann) for this substantial and expensive undertaking. My own interest in photography has grown out of the need to document South African buildings and heritage places. So often old photographs are our only reference point for how things looked in the past.
BLUE PLAQUES
This site carries evidence of cultures from Johannesburg’s distant past: ancient hunter-gatherers, early farmers and the first iron age miners of the Witwatersrand. It offers an impressive record of occupation by different communities over thousands of years. Stone age people left behind stone weapons and tools.