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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Bedford Court, designed by renowned architect Sir Herbert Baker, was home to Randlord and mining magnate Sir George Farrar and his family from 1903 until his untimely death in South West Africa in 1915. Miss Jean Fletcher purchased Bedford Court and 108 morgen of land in 1920 to house St Andrew's School for Girls.