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Johannesburg Firsts

  • Johannesburg's First Air Conditioned Building

From our Archive

  • More gold comes from the southern half of Western Australia than from South Africa
  • Modern British-Built Trams for Johannesburg’s British Empire Exhibition in 1936
  • Sandton's Forgotten Monument
  • Michael Sutton is the reason that I chose to study Architecture
  • Busting Out - Transplanting the heart of Johannesburg in the 1960s
  • William Roe (1827-1916) - Long serving Graaff-Reinet based photographer
  • Joburg’s firsts
  • The History of Jacaranda Trees in Pretoria
  • History of the Ditsong National Museum of Military History
  • Tintypes - The poor man’s photograph
  • 16 300 books... and counting
  • A short history of the metrication movement in South Africa
  • Anglo-Boer War Stereo Photographs - Produced by Keystone View Company
  • Carl Bluhm's contribution to early Eastern Cape photography - A career tragically cut short
  • The Rebirth of the Germiston Carnegie Library

From the Directory

  • McGregor Heritage Society
  • ICOM-SA
  • Emmarentia Residents Association (ERA)
  • Klerksdorp Museum
  • Les Pivnic
  • Geological Society of South Africa (GSSA)
  • South African National Society (SANS)
  • Historic Building Consultants
  • Ubique Heritage Consultants
  • Heritage Mossel Bay
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