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Collecting

  • A life synopsis intuited from a single Cabinet Card - Thomas Stork (1872-1953)
  • Shipwreck Gold Coins from South Africa
  • Confessions of a Collector of Heritage Maps
  • Africana map collection resurfaces after half a century
  • The Klass Brothers - seven storeys of cultural history
  • Recent must have Johannesburg books for your book collection
  • The Mining Link Connecting Simon van der Stel to Herbert Hoover
  • The Kodak Girl - South African Film Wallets (1910s to 1960s)
  • Ex Libris - Rediscovering Bookplates
  • Touch Joburg’s gold mining days at the Rand Club
  • Café Bibles: Contemporary Photographic Africana - Photo-stories / Fotoverhale (1950s to 1980s)
  • 16 300 books... and counting
  • Saintly Sights - Pre 1900s Missionary Photography in South Africa - An Interview
  • An intriguing century old pamphlet of the 1913 Mineworkers Strike
  • Finding the earliest known photographs of Prince Albert in a Johannesburg Charity Shop
  • Bookplates of Historical Note

From our Archive

  • The restoration of the Workers' Cottages in Newtown
  • Visiting the Historic Palmietkuil South War Cemetery
  • Model of 'U-96' donated to the Ditsong National Museum of Military History
  • NWU Main Building – The Icon of Potchefstroom
  • Birth of the South African Air Force
  • Dean Goods: The Little Engine That Went To War
  • South Africa is an ideal destination for heritage railway tourism
  • Who was the Roger behind the Jolly Roger?
  • The Indian War Memorial: National Memory and Selective Forgetting
  • The Bibliophile of Johannesburg: Remembering Geoff Klass and His Towers of Books
  • 99 Years of the Ultimate Human Race: A Journey through Comrades History
  • Smoke and Mirrors - The Martini-Henry Rifle at Isandlwana
  • A Brief History of Indian Indenture in South Africa
  • Anna H Smith - City Librarian, Johannesburg Public Library 1960-1975
  • Iconic Kaaimans River Railway Bridge Declared a Provincial Heritage Site

From the Directory

  • Bela Bela Heritage
  • Brian McKechnie - Architect & Heritage Consultant
  • Kommetjie Heritage Society
  • Wynberg East Civic Association (WECA)
  • Prof Walter Peters - Architect & Heritage Practitioner
  • South African Naval Heritage Trust (NHT)
  • Elegant Places
  • James Mpanza Legacy Foundation
  • Mike Kantey
  • Johannesburg Heritage Foundation (JHF)
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