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Photographic History

  • The elusive Neilson brothers - Early 20th century deep-level mining photographers
  • South African “Cartomania” - a photographic phenomenon
  • Researchers excited by exceptional photographic find
  • TD Ravenscroft and his photography
  • Tintypes - The poor man’s photograph
  • A Dutch Accolade from a Field Ambulance volunteer praising a Boer war officer
  • A post Boer War letter from a Rooinek to a Dutch Girl
  • Stereo Photography - Mesmerising viewers since 1851
  • Early 20th Century Asylum photography in South Africa
  • Postmortem Photography in South Africa
  • Early Missionary Photography in the Namaqualand
  • Finding the earliest known photographs of Prince Albert in a Johannesburg Charity Shop
  • Aerial photographs that tell two stories!
  • What did Johannesburg look like in 1889?

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From our Archive

  • A nation in 66 places: the national heritage sites of South Africa
  • A Dutch Accolade from a Field Ambulance volunteer praising a Boer war officer
  • Forgotten Railway Sidings of the South Peninsula
  • Early History of the Drill Hall
  • Planners, Protectors and Predators: Public Trust and the tension between Heritage and Planning laws
  • Zonderwater - Almost certainly the Largest Allied POW Camp in the World
  • TD Ravenscroft and his photography
  • Jan Christian Smuts 1870 - 1950
  • Visiting the Historic Village of Wakkerstroom
  • The birth certificate of the Yeoville Water Tower
  • Restoring Pietermaritzburg's Old Ireland Building in the late 1970s
  • The Historic Forester's Cottage Knysna
  • Using the latest technology to digitise maps and posters at the Kwazulu-Natal Museum
  • Racing in the shadows of mine dumps: Black African cycle sport on South Africa's gold mines in the apartheid era
  • The Royal Navy in Hermanus in 1961

From the Directory

  • Clydesdale Village Association
  • South East Witwatersrand Family History Society (SEWFHS)
  • Nuuseum
  • Jenna Mervis - Author and Museum Storyteller
  • Association of Professional Heritage Practitioners (APHP)
  • Western Cape Museum Educator Group
  • Greater Vredehoek Heritage Action Group
  • Pam McLaren - Female Ancestry British Kaffaria & Natal
  • Ancestors Research South Africa
  • Heritage Western Cape (HWC)
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