Gerald Adams, Exhibition Photographs
- ZA HPRA A3355
- collection
- 1940s
A set of photographs taken by photographers Deni Garthorne & Keartland.
The photographs were taken at an outdoor exhibition in South Africa, circa 1944. It could be that these photographs were taken at the Rand Easter Show in Johannesburg. The exhibition was opened by Field Marshall January Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa until 1948. In the photographs Smuts (as well as personnel at the various exhibition stands) is wearing a military uniform which supports the idea that the exhibition took place during the Second World War period. Another clue to the date of the exhibition is that a large exhibition space was provided to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), who were, during the Second World War, allies of Britain and its colonies.
The exhibition also offered wide spaces for entertainment and food, with a number of foreign visitors and countries, as well as local organisations and companies.