Identity area
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Title
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- 1926 - 1967 (Creation)
Level of description
Fonds
Extent and medium
102 boxes
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
James Humphreys, the son of a Rand Pioneer, was a Consulting Mining Engineer and Director of Companies, as well as collector of Africana.
Archival history
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
The collection of James Humphreys contains company reports, notices to shareholders, articles in mining journals, press clippings, correspondence and photographs relating to the mining of gold, coal, metals, minerals and precious jewels in South Africa, Bechuanaland, Nyasaland, Rhodesia and East Africa.
Subject matter includes metallurgy, geology, mineralogy, mining law and legislation, labour and the recruiting of Black labour, mining history, personalities and Rand Pioneers and mining groups, covering the years 1926-1967.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
This content list can be cross-referenced with an Alphabetical list of headings and an Alphabetical list of file names, as well as an Index to plans, which are available as hardcopy inventories at Historical Papers.
Some of the file item numbers were expanded in order to allow for the upload of parts, such as maps.
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Note
There are gaps in numbering and some files, even that they were listed.
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Archivist's note
PLEASE NOTE: THE COLLECTION IS PRESENTLY IN THE PROCESS OF FULL DIGITISATION AND CANNOT BE ACCESSED UNTIL DECEMBER 2023.