Zone d'identification
Cote
Titre
Date(s)
- 1886-1977 (Production)
Niveau de description
collection
Étendue matérielle et support
Photographs and file containing contact prints with description
Zone du contexte
Nom du producteur
Notice biographique
Former lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Histoire archivistique
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
The collection includes photos of street scenes in early Johannesburg; social life and occupations; mining, mine compounds and workers; townships; squatters; strikes; passive resistance and resistance to the carrying of passes. Many of those were originally published in various journals, such as "The Transvaal Leader" and "The Star Weekly" and others.
Évaluation, élimination et calendrier de conservation
Accroissements
Mode de classement
A typed inventory with contact prints and a brief descriptions and sources of the photos is available and can be dowloaded.
The photos are numbered according to the inventory, i.e. film no. & item no. Only photographs which are marked have large prints. The remaining images have been digitised from the contact prints and are available to researchers in the Historical Papers Reading room.
Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation
Conditions d’accès
Conditions de reproduction
Copyright applies as indicated. Please note that most photographs by the Barnett brothers are subject to copyright The Star newspaper and African News Agency.
Langue des documents
Écriture des documents
Notes de langue et graphie
Caractéristiques matérielle et contraintes techniques
Instruments de recherche
The listing as per Film serves as inventory.
Instrument de recherche téléversé
Zone des sources complémentaires
Existence et lieu de conservation des originaux
The photographs are copies of original pictures held by various newspapers, libraries and archives.
Existence et lieu de conservation des copies
Unités de description associées
Note de publication
"Johannesburg: Images and Continuities: a History of Working Class Life Through Pictures, 1885-1935", by Peter Kallaway and Patrick Pearson, Braamfontein, South Africa: Ravan Press, 1986.