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Historical Papers Research Archive, University of the Witwatersrand Series With digital objects
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Film 20

Including Jabavu clinic (Ellen Hellmann photograph); concrete bunks in Chinese compound; Alliance steam laundry; milkman with hanging milk bottles; Fordsburg after the Red Revolt on the Rand; Benoni during Red Revolt; Brakpan commando; sabotage of train; Ferreirastown with African workers moving their dead (Red Revolt?); armoured car in Alberton; 1913 strike with police at Old Market square; Garrison of Fordsburg police station; troops rushed to Turffontein; Fordsburg trenches

Film 21

Including graphics dated 1896 of travelling to the Transvaal; refugees from Johannesburg; Reform Committee (Jameson Raid); Africans catching dogs in Johannesburg; first railway in the Transvaal; gambling; illicit liquor sellers; mounted police during Rand Revolt, 1907; Park railway station, 1899; exodus from Johannesburg, 1899

Film 22

Including more graphics of exodus from Johannesburg, 1899; contrast between white and black in South Africa; 1906; sketches of gold discoveries on the Rand, 1887; Potchefstroom road, 1887; water supply in Johannesburg; witchcraft on the Rand, 1927; railway strikers in Market square, 1914; burning of the Indian location at Braamfontein after the plague, 1904; migrant workers from Central Africa, 1903; Black Association football team in Johannesburg, 1909; trains with migrant workers; migrant miners on the Rand, 1907; Armenians, 1907; Rand steam laundry advert, 1915; Johannesburg plague outbreak, 1918

Film 23

Including book illustrations of strike at Newtown; International Socialists in court, 1918; boarding house life in Johannesburg, 1919; liquor raids, 1920; speech by MT Bain in Hyde Park after banishment from South Africa 1914; African strikers on the mines, 1920; Springbok Tobacco advert, 1918; Turffontein, 1918, Vrededorp poor people, 1918; Boy Scouts help to fight the plague, 1918; Armistice Day celebrations, 1918; world record shaft sinking, 1919; Samuel Clifford, bookmaker, 1918; hospital ward during the plague, 1918; relief kitchen, 1918; slums of Fordsburg and Vrededorp, 1918; South African Club, Jeppes street, 1918

Film 24

Including the Chamber of Mines; white construction workers on strike, 1918; orphaned children after the epidemic, 1919; Manston Murder trail accused senteced to death, 1919; Great Native Convention, Queenstown, February 1919; strikes and pass demonstrations, 1919; Brandy advert, 1919; Langlaagte orphanage, 1920; tribal dancing competition at the Wanderers, 1921; Rand steam laundries, 1921; Wits NLA team, 1921; police on the Rand at the Wanderers, 1922

Film 25

Including mainly images from the 1922 miners' strike on the East Rand; Rhodesian mail train derailed, 1922; strike scenes from Johannesburg, 1922; Fordsburg during the plague, 1922; fire in Jeppe Deep, 1922

Film 26

Including (first part of the film was spoiled) Transvaal Scottish and Durban Light Infantry, 1922; Red Revolt strike scenes, 1922; Mining Industry Board, 1922; white labour for railway works, 1922; Carton Theatre, 1922; rickshaw, 1922; trams in Johannesburg, 1922; captured German machineguns in the Workers' Hall, Fordsburg, 1922; battle of Brixton Bridge, 1922

Film 27

Including continuation of 1922 mine workers strike; African workers in Fordsburg during the fighting, 1922; at the power station and the Red Cross in Johannesburg, 1922; Boksburg police, 1922; 103 year old resident at Prospect township, 1923; South Africa's national film 'De Voortrekkers', 1923; Jameson Raid, 1924; illicit liquor, 1924; miners underground at New Kleinfontein, 1924; Hatherley Distilleries near Pretoria, 1888; Doornfontein Hill; Orange Grove on the road to Pretoria; kraals and the Witwatersrand hills; pavilion beerhall in Jeppestreet; Augehrn & Piels Wholesale at Jeppe street; gunsmith shop, no dates; burgers assemble at Boksburg, 1899

Film 28

Including pages with illustrations from London News and The Moon newspapers of adverts and cartoons; compound at Geldenhius Estate, 1905; Shangaans and Induna with compound manager, 1905; 'British Basuto', 1905; Chinese New Year, sports at Luipaardsvlei gold mine, 1905; rickshaw drivers waiting for licences, 1905; cycle owners in Johannesburg, 1905; the Chain gang at Johannesburg prison, 1905

Film 29

Including Labour Day procession with bricklayers' banner, stone masons societies, fire brigade engine drivers, 1905; 'Tattersalls' at Harrison street, 1905; Chinese miners, 1905; the leading Johannesburg Bookmakers, 1905; Turffontein Hotel, 1905; seargeants of the 'Transvaal Native Police' D division, 1905; Johannesburg Plasterers Society, 1905; Wemmer compound; officers of the Transvaal Indian Football Association, 1905; Chinese New Year at Village Deep, 1906; Afrikan mine workers queuing for beer at Ferreira Deep Gold mine, 1906; Zulu compound police, 1906; transport in Johannesburg, 1906; Fordsburg terminal, 1906; anti Chinese demonstrations, with burning effigies of Churchill and Campbell-Bannerman hung up, 1906; new African location at Klipspruit, 1906; Johannesburg guide picturing 'the shoeblacks', Market Square, the Arcade, 1905

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