Photographic History

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A Dutch Accolade from a Field Ambulance volunteer praising a Boer war officer
A few photographs of Johannesburg at the turn of the 20th century
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 Johannesburg-based female portrait artist: Sara Buijskes (1886 - 1970)
A remarkable Pretorian: Photographer Dotman Pretorius (1917-1999)
Abandoned photograph of significance - Groot-Spelonken School Journey, July 1916
Abdul Rahim Munshi - Possibly South Africa’s First Recorded Studio Photographer of Colour
Aerial photographs that tell two stories!
An early South African Philaphotographologist - Frederick William Willis
Anglo-Boer War Stereo Photographs - Produced by Keystone View Company
Anglo-Boer War Stereo Photographs Produced by B.W. Kilburn & Co
Behind the Lens - 50 plus German-born photographers active in South Africa between 1846 and 1915
Café Bibles: Contemporary Photographic Africana - Photo-stories / Fotoverhale (1950s to 1980s)
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
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
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 photo evidence brings closure following tragic death at sea
Early Standerton through the eyes of a deltiologist
Enigmatic Johannesburg-based Female Photographer, Jane Plotz
Finding the earliest known photographs of Prince Albert in a Johannesburg Charity Shop
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
Hunter and hunted photographed - Early South African hunting photographs (1860s to 1910)
JC Munro - Pretoria's longest serving photographer during the turn of the 20th century
Johannesburg's Camera Obscura and a world-class photographic collection
Latent South African Visual History - Magic lantern slides
Let’s Play - South African children photographed with their Victorian & Edwardian toys
Operators of “Mirrors with Memory” South African Photographers (1846 to 1915)
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 the Kruger Park that haven't been seen for half a century
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
Remarkable Photographs Emerge from Joburg Family Archive
Researchers excited by exceptional photographic find
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)
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
The Caney Legacy - Early Durban based family of photographers
The elusive Neilson brothers - Early 20th century deep-level mining photographers
The Heritage Community says farewell to a courageous and eccentric Johannesburg character
The Kodak Girl - South African Film Wallets (1910s to 1960s)
The Legacy of Dr Arthur David Bensusan
Tintypes - The poor man’s photograph
Unacclaimed South African Railway Photographers (1894 -1940)
Unique Photographs from the Boer War
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
What did Johannesburg look like in 1889?
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)