ARTICLES

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Rand Pioneer, Farmer, Prospector, Photographer, Baker, Cook - The Personal Photo Album of Philip Baily Eastwood (1861 – 1917)
Historical Photographs and the South African Law
Early Panoramic Johannesburg
Interpreting Historical South African Photographs (1860s – 1970s)
Enigmatic pre-1875 South African Carte de Visite Hand-Colourists
Abandoned photograph of significance - Groot-Spelonken School Journey, July 1916
Behind the Lens - 50 plus German-born photographers active in South Africa between 1846 and 1915
South African medical students in Bonnie Scotland during the 1870s
Early Middelburg through the eyes of two deltiologists
Abdul Rahim Munshi - Possibly South Africa’s First Recorded Studio Photographer of Colour
Simonstown: A Victorian Photo Album dissected 160 years later
Early photo evidence brings closure following tragic death at sea
A life synopsis intuited from a single Cabinet Card - Thomas Stork (1872-1953)
Enigmatic Johannesburg-based Female Photographer, Jane Plotz
David Stewart Howie - Anglo-Boer War Correspondent and Amateur Photographer
Early Standerton through the eyes of a deltiologist
An early South African Philaphotographologist - Frederick William Willis
A remarkable Johannesburg-based female portrait artist: Sara Buijskes (1886 - 1970)
Early Heidelberg through the eyes of a deltiologist
Anglo-Boer War sketches, Magic Lanterns and the Lanternist
Pioneer Diamond Field Photographers Kimberley (1869 - 1915)
Bygone fortune seeker and rail restauranteur Theodor Fiebiger
Southern Africa from above: Aerial Photography – A historical overview
Arthur Edward Green - Soldier, hunter, engineer, traveller & amateur photographer
Pogonology: South African men and their facial hair - As portrayed in photographs from the Victorian era
Unacclaimed South African Railway Photographers (1894 -1940)
A remarkable Pretorian: Photographer Dotman Pretorius (1917-1999)
More than a century ago: “Toen en Nu” (Then and Now) - A poem by Ompie
Visual Reflection on Pretoria’s early places of Worship - 1857 to the end of the 1920s
Anglo-Boer War Stereo Photographs - Produced by Keystone View Company
Johannesburg based artist’s 1960s photographic portfolio resurfaces
“In Memoriam” - Significance of the photograph during the mourning process
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
A South African Maritime Catastrophe photographed
East London's Father of Photography - Osborne Morley (1850-1926)
Botched South African amateur snapshots (1920s - 1940s)
Anglo-Boer War Stereo Photographs Produced by B.W. Kilburn & Co
Pretoria Railway Station depicted on early Picture Postcards
Matters Piscatorial: Fishermen’s story of significance - The Lilliecrona Photo album
Carl Bluhm's contribution to early Eastern Cape photography - A career tragically cut short
South Africa’s Three Photographers named Kisch (1863 – 1902)
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
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
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
Tram Spotting - Pretoria Tram Services as depicted on early Picture Postcards (1900s to 1920s)
Ten South African based German Missionaries Photographed
The Kodak Girl - South African Film Wallets (1910s to 1960s)
South Africa’s Oldest Bank - An epic photographic journey
Forbidden Images (1960s to 1980s) - Illegal photographs captured by young men conscripted into the South African Military
Summer holidays, Sunshine, Swimwear, Suntan lotion and Sand buckets - South African Beach Photographers (1930s to 1960s)
Anglo-Boer War - Stereo Photographs produced by Underwood & Underwood 
South African Pavement Photographs (1930s to 1960s) - A Nostalgic reflection
Café Bibles: Contemporary Photographic Africana - Photo-stories / Fotoverhale (1950s to 1980s)
Early Ethno-Photography and the Picture Postcard - A South African perspective
Photographers active in Pretoria - First 60 years (1855-1915)
Burgers Park - A Victorian Heritage (As portrayed in picture postcards from more than a century ago)
Perfect nuisance and as mad as a hatter - Rudolf Gottfried Steger, Pretoria based photographer from 1898-1919
Snapshot Photography - Automobiles photographed in South Africa from the 1920s to 1960s
Hunter and hunted photographed - Early South African hunting photographs (1860s to 1910)
Carl Friedrich Adolf Wundram - Piet Retief’s only recorded photographer between the 1890s and 1910
William Roe (1827-1916) - Long serving Graaff-Reinet based photographer
The South African Victorian photo album (early 1860s into the early 1900s)
An elegant lady photographed - Hildagonda Johanna Duckitt (1839 to 1905)
Deep-level mining photography: The Elusive Neilson Brothers demystified - with additional information on James Wilbur Read
Documents saved from a rubbish dump reveal snippets of the life of Gerardus Bodde
A reflection on the South African Real Photo Postcard (RPPC) -  1902 to the 1930's
Six Photographs - 103 Prisoners of War: Some Anglo-Boer War Prisoners of War photographed
JC Munro - Pretoria's longest serving photographer during the turn of the 20th century
On the lighter side - Some funny and peculiar South African vintage photographs
Anglo-Zulu War 1879 - Some personalities photographed
“Presumably a criminal is not always a criminal” - Wakkerstroom’s photographic artist Maximillian Alfred Daubert (1865-1951)
Henri Ferdinand Gros - Pretoria’s first permanently based photographer, 1875 to 1890
Unique Photographs from the Boer War
The elusive Neilson brothers - Early 20th century deep-level mining photographers
South African “Cartomania” - a photographic phenomenon
Researchers excited by exceptional photographic find
A Reflection on Female Photographers active in South Africa prior to 1915
Tintypes - The poor man’s photograph
A Dutch Accolade from a Field Ambulance volunteer praising a Boer war officer
A post Boer War letter from a Rooinek to a Dutch Girl
Stereo Photography - Mesmerising viewers since 1851
Early 20th Century Asylum photography in South Africa
Postmortem Photography in South Africa
Early Missionary Photography in the Namaqualand