Fonds A2638 - Patrick Pearson, Collection of photographs

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Reference code

ZA HPRA A2638

Title

Patrick Pearson, Collection of photographs

Date(s)

  • 1886-1977 (Creation)

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Extent and medium

Photographs and file containing contact prints with description

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Name of creator

Biographical history

Former lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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Scope and content

The collection includes photos of street scenes in early Johannesburg; social life and occupations; mining, mine compounds and workers; townships; squatters; strikes; passive resistance and resistance to the carrying of passes. Many of those were originally published in various journals, such as "The Transvaal Leader" and "The Star Weekly" and others.

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A typed inventory with contact prints and a brief descriptions and sources of the photos is available and can be dowloaded.

The photos are numbered according to the inventory, i.e. film no. & item no. Only photographs which are marked have large prints. The remaining images have been digitised from the contact prints and are available to researchers in the Historical Papers Reading room.

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Copyright applies as indicated. Please note that most photographs by the Barnett brothers are subject to copyright The Star newspaper and African News Agency.

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The listing as per Film serves as inventory.

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The photographs are copies of original pictures held by various newspapers, libraries and archives.

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Publication note

"Johannesburg: Images and Continuities: a History of Working Class Life Through Pictures, 1885-1935", by Peter Kallaway and Patrick Pearson, Braamfontein, South Africa: Ravan Press, 1986.

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