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

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 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 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

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

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