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Historical Papers Research Archive, University of the Witwatersrand Patrick Pearson, Collection of photographs Series With digital objects
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Film 5

Including Braamfontein unemployment camp; Judith Paal suburb; Ferrerastown camp 1886; 1899 shops in Germiston; Germiston lake; Benoni houses; Brakpan streets; Braamfontein 1964; Chinese miners 1906; Chinese miners underground; Chinese compound rooms, bath house, Rosettenville, 'boys room', entrance to compound; chinese interpreters quarters (SJPML); SJPML Chinese compound police room; Chinese quarters at Village Deep compound, Christmas 1906; Chinese entertainment; Pedlar selling game; Gold mine compounds Crown Mines and New Kleinfontein; Mine 1903-4; single quarters 1903-4; New Kleinfontein surface works; compound managers servant; Chinese prison camp, 1905; Doorfontein slum area, 1930s; Indian hawker; prisons in Pretoria

Film 10

Including Chinese arrival on the mines (several book illustrations); a Johannesburg African township; Van Ryn Estates 1904, Chinese mine workers leaving; Commissioner street, 1888; Stead's Meat market; Newtown market; Indian bakery; Indians arriving in Durban; Chinese police at Simmer & Jack mine; Indian pedlar, 1895, Chinese wrestling

Film 12

Including various Chinese workers' compound; S.J.P.M.L. Chinese compound; rickshaw with flower; Pimville township; Alexandra township; Moroka; large group of African mine workers on a hill; fruit and vegetable hall; farm workers in Pietersburg; Wolhuter men's hostel for African workers; shanty towns; Coronationville; Alexandra township with cow; street trader with basket; Chinese mine workers; African market place, and new trading centre for Africans; Diepkloof reoformatory buildings, no dates

Film 18

Including hanging of Africans carried out in Rhodesia; African Eating house; Burger Camp pass, 1902; Chinese eating; African musicians at compound; rickshaws; Chinese Opera on the Rand, Randfontein Gold mine; Chinese police drill; Chinese barber shop; Chinese staff of a cook house; Indian trader; Chinese compound at Simmer & Jack gold mine; African wedding party; E.R.P.M. Club house; Chinese workers arrival on the mines

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 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 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 35

Including Market Square; bath in mining compound; Boksburg lake regatta; Bezuidenhout Valley, 1906; Chamber of Mines, National Bank, Robinson Bank; rickshaws; early Johannesburg; mule coach to gold fields; Godlonton & Co trading store; Sophiatown and Western Areas removals, 1953; women fleeing Johannesburg during Jameson Raid in cattle trucks; life in an Uitlander Camp, 1896; Braamfontein Dynamite Explosion, 1896; water rush during drought in Johannesburg, 1896; Main Reef road; Boer commando; Braamfontein subway; Modderfontein Dynamite factory, 1907; Netherlands Railway Goods yards; Reverend WE Kelly's Help League Home, 1898

Film 1

Including cartoons; Greek Itinerant; Johannesburg's washing places; Klipspruit; building the Carlton Hotel; picnic at Witpoortjie Falls; Commissioner Street; Market square; shoe blacks corner; Indian fruit hawkers; Rickshaws; ice cream trolleys; trolleys for hire; Chinese Club in Johannesburg; Chinese compound; Park station; Robinson Deep; Johannesburg Municipality; blacksmiths; farriers; carpenters; sanitary boys, 1904-1906

Film 11

Including E.R.P.M. boarding house; African barber; Wemmer Gold mine compound; Chinese cook house; Crown Mines underground; Indian hawkers; African musicians at compound; horse racing at Johannesburg Turf Club; Castle breweries; Montrose Gold mine; migrant workers at gold mine; laundry; fashion; Johannesburg Electricity department; concentration camp; Indian gate at Park Station; rickshaws; Chinese arrivals, 1904; Alexandra township board, 1914; Geldenhuis Mine Chinese cleaners, Chinese hospital and police, 1905

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