Vintage prints, no description
- ZA HPRA A3440-C-C2
- sub-series
- undated
Depicting life of Afro-Americans in the rural South, but also urban settings.
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Vintage prints, no description
Depicting life of Afro-Americans in the rural South, but also urban settings.
Pensive tribesmen, newly recruited to mine labor, await processing and assignment.
Waits are tedious; processing may take two days, time for which men are not paid.
Fingerprinting is necessary step in issuance of all-important pass legalizing workman's presence in white area for duration of his job.
During group medical examination
During group medical examination, the nude men are herded through a string of doctors' offices.
After processing, they wait at railroad station for transportation to mine. Identity tag on wrist shows shipment of labor to which man is assigned.
After processing, they wait at railroad station for transportation to mine.
Section of Rand Leases mine compound
Section of Rand Leases mine compound, outside Johannesburg, where African miners live while on contract. No families or women are allowed. this is a typical compound, with buildings laid out in a square and only one gate.
Barracks-like buildings are divided into starkly simple rooms with bunk space for twenty men. There are no closets or cupboards, so clothes and boots hang all over.
Some, like man with penny whistle, pass time with musical instruments.