The primary photograph under discussion in this article is the 8-pane panoramic photograph of early Johannesburg (1888) by the photographer David Hyman Davies.
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BOOK REVIEWS
I purchased this book when it first appeared and have long felt gratitude to the editor and the publisher (Könemann) for this substantial and expensive undertaking. My own interest in photography has grown out of the need to document South African buildings and heritage places. So often old photographs are our only reference point for how things looked in the past.
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This house was designed by Charles Aburrow in 1897 for Thomas Cullinan (later Sir), master builder and diamond mining magnate. Cullinan was not prepared to fight against the Boers. He took his family to his wife's home in the Eastern Cape. There he joined the Wodehouse Yeomanry, a purely defensive group of local farmers, yet they nearly captured General Smuts at Moordenaars Poort.