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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The Nederduitsche Hervormde Church shares its history with the Nederduitsche Gereformeerde Church, with DS Van Warmelo being the first minister. He tried to unite the two congregations. This building was built as their church in 1889, by the members of the NHC, who were not in agreement with the building of the “Klip Kerk”.