Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1886-1977 (Creation)
Level of description
Fonds
Extent and medium
Photographs and file containing contact prints with description
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Former lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
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.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
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.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright applies as indicated. Please note that most photographs by the Barnett brothers are subject to copyright The Star newspaper and African News Agency.
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
The listing as per Film serves as inventory.
Uploaded finding aid
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
The photographs are copies of original pictures held by various newspapers, libraries and archives.
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
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.