Área de identidad
Código de referencia
Título
Fecha(s)
- 1886-1977 (Creación)
Nivel de descripción
Fondo
Volumen y soporte
Photographs and file containing contact prints with description
Área de contexto
Nombre del productor
Historia biográfica
Former lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Institución archivística
Historia archivística
Origen del ingreso o transferencia
Área de contenido y estructura
Alcance y contenido
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.
Valorización, destrucción y programación
Acumulaciones
Sistema de arreglo
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.
Área de condiciones de acceso y uso
Condiciones de acceso
Condiciones
Copyright applies as indicated. Please note that most photographs by the Barnett brothers are subject to copyright The Star newspaper and African News Agency.
Idioma del material
Escritura del material
Notas sobre las lenguas y escrituras
Características físicas y requisitos técnicos
Instrumentos de descripción
The listing as per Film serves as inventory.
Uploaded finding aid
Área de materiales relacionados
Existencia y localización de originales
The photographs are copies of original pictures held by various newspapers, libraries and archives.
Existencia y localización de copias
Unidades de descripción relacionadas
Nota de publicación
"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.