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Historical Papers Research Archive, University of the Witwatersrand Series
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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 34

Including Morning market in Johannsburg, 1894; 'first house' in Johannesburg, 1894; mining group on the Witwatersrand gold fields, 1894; Castle Brewery advert, 1894; advert from American Doctor Howard Strong, 1894; Kazerne goods yards in Johannesburg, 1907; advert for Sunlight soap, 1906; James Triggs vs Phil Mitchell wrestling match, 1905; bead making at Wemmer compound, 1905; cartoons 1905; Sunday morning washing, 1905

Film 4

Including candle making factory, 1908; Empire Palace, 1908; roller skating, 1908; Chinese Opium smoker, 1904; Chinese labourer arriving at compound, 1904; life at the Chinese labour compound, 1904; Chinese for the Van Ryn Mine, 1904; destruction by police of dagga; Ferrerastown

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

Correspondence

Re the Order of Ethiopia. Correspondents are W.M. Carter (Archbishop Of Cape Town), W.M. Cameron (Coadjunct(?) Bb. of Cape Town), J.M. Divane, C.E. Cornish (Bishop of Grahamstown), A.C. Grant, W.W. Jones (Archbishop of Cape Town) and E.C. West Warden of St. Paul's College and Bishop's Chaplain for Ethiopian Church).

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 33

Including Africans paying hut tax in front of Court, 1908; Lovedale Nature Convention delegates, 1908; Johannesburg Mohammedan festival, 1908; chiefs and headmen from Natal visit the Rand, 1908; Langlaagte Orphanage, 1909; Market Square scenes, 1908 with photographers, snuff sellers, fruit stalls, mules; South African Labour Party conference, 1909; supply of rations of Van Houten's cocoa to African mine workers at New Comet Gold mine, 1909; Old Fire station, 1909; AA Rothschild holding a sale in 1880; dead horses on the Rand; Ferreira Gold mine, Eagle Nest Mine, 1889; the State prisoner Chief Malaboch in Pretoria Gaol, 1894; Johannesburg stock exchange 'Between the Chains', 1897; Langlaagte Estate, 1897; African workers receiving their tickets at the Timekeeper's House before going to shift, 1897

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