Historic Photographs

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1950 Commemorative Booklet reveals wonderful photographs of Jan Smuts
A Chance in a Million - Identical photographs found on different continents
A few photographs of Johannesburg at the turn of the 20th century
A life synopsis intuited from a single Cabinet Card - Thomas Stork (1872-1953)
A post Boer War letter from a Rooinek to a Dutch Girl
A reflection on the South African Real Photo Postcard (RPPC) -  1902 to the 1930's
A remarkable album of early 20th century views of Johannesburg
A remarkable Pretorian: Photographer Dotman Pretorius (1917-1999)
A Sandstone Architect of Oudtshoorn
A South African Maritime Catastrophe photographed
Abdul Rahim Munshi - Possibly South Africa’s First Recorded Studio Photographer of Colour
Aerial photographs that tell two stories!
Amazing Photographs of Historic Nedbank Branches
An early South African Philaphotographologist - Frederick William Willis
An elegant lady photographed - Hildagonda Johanna Duckitt (1839 to 1905)
Anglo-Boer War sketches, Magic Lanterns and the Lanternist
Anglo-Boer War Stereo Photographs - Produced by Keystone View Company
Anglo-Boer War Stereo Photographs Produced by B.W. Kilburn & Co
Anglo-Boer War - Stereo Photographs produced by Underwood & Underwood 
Anglo-Zulu War 1879 - Some personalities photographed
Arthur Edward Green - Soldier, hunter, engineer, traveller & amateur photographer
Barnett's Views of Johannesburg and Suburbs - A window on the world that was early Johannesburg
Behind the Lens - 50 plus German-born photographers active in South Africa between 1846 and 1915
Billy Monk was a Loaded Gun - A Treasure Trove of Photographs of Cape Town in the 1960s
Botched South African amateur snapshots (1920s - 1940s)
Bygone fortune seeker and rail restauranteur Theodor Fiebiger
Café Bibles: Contemporary Photographic Africana - Photo-stories / Fotoverhale (1950s to 1980s)
Cape Town Photographs by TP and TD Ravenscroft
Car spotting at the Kruger National Park in the 1970s
Carl Bluhm's contribution to early Eastern Cape photography - A career tragically cut short
Carl Friedrich Adolf Wundram - Piet Retief’s only recorded photographer between the 1890s and 1910
Century old photographs reveal the story of James Gribble, Paarl based photographer
Construction of Graaff-Reinet’s Van Ryneveld’s Pass Dam Wall (1920-1925) - Three photographic collections present a historic engineering narrative
David Stewart Howie - Anglo-Boer War Correspondent and Amateur Photographer
Deep-level mining photography: The Elusive Neilson Brothers demystified - with additional information on James Wilbur Read
Diamond Smugglers' Aircraft on a Deserted Beach - Unravelling the story around discarded crime scene photographs
DocuFest Africa - Showcasing rare and unusual images of life in South Africa during Apartheid
Dormant Graaff-Reinet Museum Photographic Collection sees the light - Roe & Son studio images of the local Black community
Early 20th Century Asylum photography in South Africa
Early Ethno-Photography and the Picture Postcard - A South African perspective
Early Heidelberg through the eyes of a deltiologist
Early Middelburg through the eyes of two deltiologists
Early Missionary Photography in the Namaqualand
Early Standerton through the eyes of a deltiologist
East London's Father of Photography - Osborne Morley (1850-1926)
Enigmatic Johannesburg-based Female Photographer, Jane Plotz
Forbidden Images (1960s to 1980s) - Illegal photographs captured by young men conscripted into the South African Military
George Washington Wilson - The man, The Company and The Photographers
Henri Ferdinand Gros - Pretoria’s first permanently based photographer, 1875 to 1890
HF Gros and his remarkable collection of early Transvaal Photographs
Historic photographs of Apartheid Johannesburg in the 1980s
Hunter and hunted photographed - Early South African hunting photographs (1860s to 1910)
It’s a match! Early Tweddill photograph and portrait painting matched
JC Munro - Pretoria's longest serving photographer during the turn of the 20th century
Johannesburg in postcards 1904-08
Johannesburg's Camera Obscura and a world-class photographic collection
Kate’s Legacy - Seeking the family of an abandoned box of beautiful old photographs
Latent South African Visual History - Magic lantern slides
Let’s Play - South African children photographed with their Victorian & Edwardian toys
Mystery photographs of two forgotten Salvation Army jamborees in South Africa
Old Images of South Africa's Town Halls
On the lighter side - Some funny and peculiar South African vintage photographs
Operators of “Mirrors with Memory” South African Photographers (1846 to 1915)
Passionate about tennis - A South African photo album of historical significance (1909 - 1913)
Perfect nuisance and as mad as a hatter - Rudolf Gottfried Steger, Pretoria based photographer from 1898-1919
Photographers active in Pretoria - First 60 years (1855-1915)
Photographs of Johannesburg in the late 1950s and early 1960s
Photos of Pageview in 1973
Pioneer Diamond Field Photographers Kimberley (1869 - 1915)
Pogonology: South African men and their facial hair - As portrayed in photographs from the Victorian era
Postmortem Photography in South Africa
Potch pets in old pictures
Pretoria on Parade - A Mystery Photo Album Emerges
Remarkable Photographs Emerge from Joburg Family Archive
Remarkable photographs of a 1970s trip through South West Africa
Researchers excited by exceptional photographic find
Saintly Sights - Pre 1900s Missionary Photography in South Africa - An Interview
Simonstown: A Victorian Photo Album dissected 160 years later
Sit! Stay! More than a century ago - South African pet canines in front of the lens
Six Photographs - 103 Prisoners of War: Some Anglo-Boer War Prisoners of War photographed
Snapshot Photography - Automobiles photographed in South Africa from the 1920s to 1960s
South African medical students in Bonnie Scotland during the 1870s
South African Pavement Photographs (1930s to 1960s) - A Nostalgic reflection
South African “Cartomania” - a photographic phenomenon
South Africa’s Oldest Bank - An epic photographic journey
South Africa’s Three Photographers named Kisch (1863 – 1902)
Southern Africa from above: Aerial Photography – A historical overview
Spectacular old photographs of Joburg from above
Stereo Photography - Mesmerising viewers since 1851
Summer holidays, Sunshine, Swimwear, Suntan lotion and Sand buckets - South African Beach Photographers (1930s to 1960s)
TD Ravenscroft and his photography
Ten South African based German Missionaries Photographed
The Caney Legacy - Early Durban based family of photographers
The elusive Neilson brothers - Early 20th century deep-level mining photographers
The man behind one of South Africa's largest private photographic collections - Q&A with Carol Hardijzer
Tintypes - The poor man’s photograph
Unacclaimed South African Railway Photographers (1894 -1940)
Unique Photographs from the Boer War
Unpacking the history behind this 1919 Ravenscroft photograph
Use of vintage photographs in narrating visual history - Beitbridge under construction (1928 – 1930)
Visual Reflection on Pretoria’s early places of Worship - 1857 to the end of the 1920s
Where there was gold there were photographers - Barberton Goldrush
William Roe (1827-1916) - Long serving Graaff-Reinet based photographer
“In Memoriam” - Significance of the photograph during the mourning process
“Presumably a criminal is not always a criminal” - Wakkerstroom’s photographic artist Maximillian Alfred Daubert (1865-1951)