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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

  • One of the most fascinating architectural features in the whole of Southern Africa
  • Perfect nuisance and as mad as a hatter - Rudolf Gottfried Steger, Pretoria based photographer from 1898-1919
  • Tunnel at Waterval Boven - Probably the best-known and most famous of all NZASM structures
  • The Pretoria Station Swastika Debate
  • Remarkable historic documents emerge at Hilton auction
  • Panning for Gold in Sandton
  • Remembering the end of the tramcar era
  • Pestilences of the skin – horrible infections, ailments and occupational hazards circa 1927
  • Commemorating Sir Herbert Baker's last building in South Africa
  • What is the meaning of heritage?
  • Tracing Cape Rebels from Colesberg to Uniondale
  • A Bloody Riot in Soweto in 1957
  • Digitising Memory: Preserving the Kaapsehoop Historical Cemetery and Village Heritage
  • The story behind the South African Scottish Memorial
  • Pink Buildings in Johannesburg - Statement by the Egoli Heritage Foundation

From the Directory

  • Dullstroom Heritage Society
  • Shaw Badenhorst - Researcher
  • ICOM-SA
  • Bibliophile
  • RE: DIGITAL
  • Ursula Rigby Architect & Professional Heritage Practitioner
  • African Centre for Heritage Activities (ACHA)
  • New Killarney-Riviera Association (NKRA)
  • Krugersdorp Heritage Association
  • Graaff Reinet Heritage Society
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