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- 1991 (Accumulation)
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88 slides; 35 photographs
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This collection contains slides of some of the material collected for the exhibition "Art, culture and social reality – The Indian community in the Transvaal" which formed part of the 1991 Wits Spring Festival. It also contains a poster on the 1946 Passive Resistance Campaign (in Gujarat).
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Photographs of the exhibition held at the University of the Witwatersrand in September 1991: "Art, Culture and Social Reality. The Indian Community in the Transvaal".
Catalogue available (kept with collection AL2467f). Organiser of the festival: Monique Vajifdar.
The exhibition consisted of historical photographs, artefacts and clothing.
The photographs were obtained from: The Local History Museum, Durban; the Africana Museum; the University of Durban-Westville. (Guide to the Documentation centre of the University of Durban-Westville is available).
Historical Papers does not have a complete set of all the photos used for the exhibition.
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20090811