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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
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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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