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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

  • Dolobran mansion sits smugly among Baker's Joburg icons
  • Crack Trains of South Africa - Then and Now
  • A Vision for Chinatown - The Remarkable Mr Walter Pon
  • Schroder House - The oldest documented dwelling in South Africa
  • A short history of the whaling industry in South Africa
  • The Founding of Potchefstroom
  • Johannesburg in postcards 1904-08
  • Potchefstroom railway station destroyed by fire
  • War Memorials in Banks and Companies
  • Five Lost Seven Remain: The Carnegie Libraries of South Africa
  • Heritage hooray for Rand Steam
  • Early mixed farming at the Broederstroom Archaeological Site
  • Gandhi on trial in South Africa, again
  • Kgosi Kgaswane and the Bakwena ba Modimosana ba Mmatau of the Tswana People
  • Old National Monument Badges and Plaques Under Threat

From the Directory

  • Library Special Projects
  • Friends of the General Smuts Foundation
  • Docomomo South Africa
  • Roger Stewart Antiquarian
  • Dr Anna Trapido - Indigenous and Heritage Food Specialist
  • Dannhauser Chronicle
  • Benoni - History Now & Then
  • Braamfontein Spruit Trust
  • Soweto History and Archives Project
  • The Empathy Lab
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