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- 1967 (Creation)
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103 images
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
These images were published in the book "House of Bondage". Each of the 184 photographs originate from one of the folders in B2.1-24, from which they were extracted. The images which were selected for the book are marked on the original contact sheets and the negative sheets.
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The photographs displayed here have been uploaded in the order in which they appear in each chapter of the book. The description of each of the images in the book has been used verbatim.
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Permission to publish any of these images must be obtained from the Ernest Cole Family Trust.
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Publication note
House of bondage, Ernest Cole (photographs) and Thomas Flaherty (text), New York : Random House, 1967
Publication note
See also website of the Photography Legacy Project: https://www.plparchive.com/ernest-cole-main-page/ec-books/
Notes area
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Of these images 102 were scanned by Magnum Photos, and have been made available to Historical Papers in Jpg format and 8- and 16-Bit Tif format. The remaining 82 images were scanned at the Wits Digitisation Centre to Magnum Photos' specifications.
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Archivist's note
The physical negative and contact sheets are stored in the Media Room.