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Pictorial History

  • This book celebrates the hidden treasures of the Karoo
  • Inside Kimberley - Paul Duncan and Alain Proust have done it again!
  • Review of Hidden Cape Town - The book is a visual feast
  • Review of Hidden Johannesburg
  • Johannesburg: Images and Continuities - A History of Working Class Life through Pictures 1885 -1935
  • A Johannesburg Album Historical Postcards by Oscar I Norwich
  • Battle of the Books - Treasures of the Africana Museum versus Pictorial History of Johannesburg
  • Early Johannesburg versus Magnates and Mansions
  • A Look at Two Books by Hannes Meiring

From our Archive

  • Hugh Lane's Vision for the Johannesburg Art Gallery
  • One day back in '63 at Liliesleaf
  • Mampoer: Documenting South Africa's Traditional Distilling Heritage
  • Remarkable photographs of a 1970s trip through South West Africa
  • Life in exile for the teenagers who survived June 16th
  • Dark tourism disaster and the terrible Laingsburg flood of 1981
  • The system has failed to achieve its purpose
  • Wanooka a grand old place again (restored in 2010)
  • Activism by Sandton Ratepayers in the 1990s
  • Early photo evidence brings closure following tragic death at sea
  • Mai Mai Market - 'The Place of Healers'
  • A short description of St Michael and All Angels Queenstown
  • Johannesburg Underground - A Lost Opportunity
  • Stony Point Whaling Station - 100 Years Later
  • Murrell Robinson Robinson - Dedicated Public Servant

From the Directory

  • Institute for Landscape Architecture in South Africa (ILASA)
  • The South African Archaeological Society (ArchSoc)
  • Cindy Postlethwayt Heritage Consultant
  • Hermanus Ratepayers Association
  • Oral History Association of South Africa (OHASA)
  • Ship Society
  • Stephanie Victor
  • Swellendam Heritage Association (SHA)
  • Anglo Zulu War Historical Society
  • Friends of the Vredefort Dome World Heritage Site
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