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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

Film 3

Including Election day February 1907; African wedding in Johannesburg, 1909; portable stamp battery, 1909; old 'George Colin' vendor, 1909; Labour Day demonstration, 1906; march to Wanderers sports, 1906; Boksburg protests, 1906; football match at Simmer & Jack Gold mine, 1906; Lord Selborne's visit to Chinese compound, 1906; Jumpers Deep, 1906; railway goods yard, 1906; Cape Boys at Primrose mine, 1906; soccer game, 1906; 'Native police', 1908; Turfontein, 1908; Abe Bailey's interesting white labour experiment, 1908; training white Afrikaaner youth at York Gold Mine, Krugersdorp, 1908; Municipal Granite quarries, Norwood, 1908; Vrededorp, 1908; soup kitchens, 1908; illicit liquor, 1908; distillery, 1908; Transvaal Asiatic Difficulty, 1908; box making, 1908

Film 30

Including images from the Johannesburg and Pretoria Guide with first camp at Ferreirastown, Barrow Green Tea room, published 1905; images from strike album, published 1913 with Maxim Gun, funeral procession, strike committee; Johannesburg in 1886; mail and passenger coach arriving in Johannesburg, 1889; Newtown Market interior, 1889; first train in Johannesburg, 1893; Park station, 1892; opening of first mines, 1886; at the bottom of Robinson Deep Gold mine, 1887; African workers at 'Native Labour' compound; African 'house boy', 1900; Johannsburg bar; compound at New Primrose mine; water carriers in early Johannesburg, 1892; early African locations; laundry in the early 1890s; African mine workers depicted taking a shower at Crown Mines, n.d.; Struben's old farm, n.d.; Indian women at market; Johannesburg dust storm; dressed up African servant; skittle-pool playing at African mining compound; washing place; Begbie & Co moulding shop; first open surface mining work on the Rand, no dates

Film 31

Including New Law courts Johannesburg, 1897; various businesses in Johannesburg such as Pistorius & Co auctioneers, CF Beyers, Butcher Federal supply & cold storage Co, Kirkwoods auction rooms, E Nettmann and Co hardware manufacturer, Lager Brewery Newlands, Yard Newlands brewery, Ginsburg Bros General merchant Benoni, Boksburg Herald, Shimwell Bros cycle works Germiston, 1897; African compound at Robinson Deep Gold mine, 1906; miners at Geldenhuis Deep Gold mine, 1906; early High School for Boys and Girls at Jeppestown, 1906; Chinese mine workers hand drilling in stope at Simmer & Jack, 1905; mining structures; dog catchers in Johannesburg at turn of century; Johannesburg washing ground; African barber in location; Indian Football Association Johannesburg, 1906; Indian street traders, 1906; view of Bez Valley, 1906

Film 32

Including Transvaal Town police, 1906; Fillis circus and hippodrome, clown, 1906; African prisoners, 1906; Germiston, 1906; explosion in Fordsburg, 1907; Labour Day at Johannesburg, 1907; miner's strike, scenes on the East Rand, Germiston, Boksburg, and Johannesburg 1907; Fordsburg Tramway Hotel, 1907; Cameron Highlanders' camp on Ferreira mine property; migrant mine worker recruiting at Braamfontein station, 1907; art on Germiston shift boss' house, 1907; migrant workers arriving outside compound, 1907; mass meeting at Market square, 1907; New Weslyan Church laying memorial stones, 1907; Rose Bros Gramophone dealer, 1907; release of strike leaders from prison, 1908; The Asiatic Passive Resistance Movement, 1908; hospital for African mine workers at Robinson Gold mine, 1908

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