Historic Photographs

Johannesburg's Camera Obscura and a world-class photographic collection
Carl Bluhm's contribution to early Eastern Cape photography - A career tragically cut short
South Africa’s Three Photographers named Kisch (1863 – 1902)
Potch pets in old pictures
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
1950 Commemorative Booklet reveals wonderful photographs of Jan Smuts
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
Billy Monk was a Loaded Gun - A Treasure Trove of Photographs of Cape Town in the 1960s
Unpacking the history behind this 1919 Ravenscroft photograph
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
Ten South African based German Missionaries Photographed