Johannesburg Collection

Cuthberts Buildings, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa
Cuthberts Buildings, with The Balcony terrace restaurant, Pritchard Street, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa. Date: circa 1905

Poster advertising Johannesburg, South Africa
Poster advertising Johannesburg, the Metropolis of South Africa. A couple in silhouette look down on a bustling city

Hillbrow, Johannesburg
Hillbrow Tower (built 1968 - 1971) dominating the Hillbrow district of Johannesburg, South Africa. Date: early 1970s

Politics / Colonialism
In JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, the natives, however elegantly dressed and well-behaved, must walk in the roadway, leaving the sidewalks for the white folk (picture 2 of 2)

Armstrong Whitworth AW15 Atalanta G-ABTI
Armstrong Whitworth AW15 Atalanta, G-ABTI, after Brackles delivery flight to begin Imperial Airways new service at Cape Town

Hillbrow, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa
Twist Street Bridge, Hillbrow, a suburb of Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa. Date: circa 1905

Gold Mining Statue
The famous Gold Mining Statue, Johannesburg, South Africa, depicting 3 men - 2 black and 1 white, drilling a rock face, a bronze sculpture by David McGregor, 1960. Date: 1960

Poster advertising Potchefstroom, South Africa
Poster advertising Potchefstroom, near Johannesburg, South Africa. It offers sport and other leisure activities, with a lake and municipal bungalows

Dog Show Childrens Class
The Transvaal Kennel Club Show, Johannesburg, childrens class. In white dresses and hats, very young children hold their dogs for the judges inspection, watched by parents

The Country Club at Johannesburg
The rendezvous of Rand society - the Johannesburg Country Club situated in a suburb of Auckland Park. Date: 1929

P C Haviland, Bellevue Scout Troop, Johannesburg
P C Haviland, Scoutmaster, Bellevue Scout Troop, Johannesburg, South Africa

Capetown Rail to Joburg
SOUTH AFRICA : the Union Express links Capetown and Johannesburg, passing through spectacular scenery on its way

Africa Johannesburg Market Square pre-1900

Africa Johannesburg Synagogue and Telephone Exchange pre-1900

Africa Johannesburg Wanderers Recreation Grounds pre-1900

Africa Johannesburg Stock Exchange pre-1900

Africa Johannesburg Grand National Hotel pre-1900

Africa Johannesburg Gold Mine on Line of Reef pre-1900

Africa Johannesburg City and Suburban Gold Mines pre-1900

Funeral of the late President Kruger, South Africa
Funeral of the late President Paul Kruger, South Africa Date: 1904

Johannesburg Racecourse, South Africa, Victorian period. Date: late 19th century

Market Square, Johannesburg, South Africa. Date: 1905

Lord Roberts at Orange Grove Inn, South Africa
Lord Roberts at the Orange Grove Inn near Johannesburg, South Africa, teaching the alphabet to the innkeeper's daughter during the Boer War - Don't you see I am busy? Date: 1901

Johannesburg, South Africa - Rickshaws in Market Square. Date: circa 1901

Gates Learjet 25B ZS-MTD (msn 25-160), of the Messina Development Company, at Johannesburg Airport. Date: circa 1976

Gold Mine near Johannesburg, South Africa. circa 1894

South African Airways DC7B over Johannesburg, South Africa. Date: 1959

The Market Square and Henwoods Arcade - Johannesburg, South Africa. Date: 1905

Building the Carlton Hotel, Johannesburg, South Africa
Date: 1904

The Simmer and Jack Proprietary Gold Mines - South Africa
The Simmer and Jack Proprietary Gold Mines - east of Johannesburg, South Africa. The company which was founded in 1887 by the German August Simmer and Scotsman John Jack

Orange Grove, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa
Orange Grove, a suburb of Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa. Date: circa 1910

Langham Hotel, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa
Luthjes Langham Hotel, Kerk Street, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa. Date: circa 1908

South Africa - Eloff & President Streets, Johannesburg
Eloff & President Streets, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. Showing Phitwell Brod. Outfitters Date: 1900s

South Africa - Grand National Hotel, Johannesburg
Black and white image of the Grand National Hotel, then situated on corner of Rissik Street and Pritchard Street, Johannesburg, South Africa (building no longer standing)

R W Nelson, Troyeville Scout Troop, Johannesburg
R W Nelson, Scoutmaster, Troyeville Scout Troop, Johannesburg, South Africa

R Nicoll, 2nd Western Scout Troop, Johannesburg
R Nicoll, Scoutmaster, 2nd Western Scout Troop, Johannesburg, South Africa

H H Musgrove, 1st Western Scout Troop, Johannesburg
H H Musgrove, Scoutmaster, 1st Western Scout Troop, Johannesburg, South Africa

H Warren Smith, Bellevue Scout Troop, Johannesburg
H Warren Smith, Scoutmaster, Bellevue Scout Troop, Johannesburg, South Africa

G Sara, Hillbrow Scout Troop, Johannesburg
G Sara, Scoutmaster, Hillbrow Scout Troop, Johannesburg, South Africa

A E Crook, Germiston Scout Troop, Johannesburg
A E Crook, Assistant Scoutmaster, Germiston Scout Troop, Johannesburg, South Africa

A A Waterman, Hillbrow Scout Troop, Johannesburg
A A Waterman, Assistant Scoutmaster, Hillbrow Scout Troop, Johannesburg, South Africa

1st Bellevue Scout with can, South Africa
A member of the 1st Bellevue Scout Troop of Johannesburg, South Africa, with a tin can

Tennis in Johannesburg
The Wimbledon of Johannesburg - a crowd of spectators watching a match on a hard court in South Africa. Date: 1929

Vrededorp, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa
Vrededorp (Vrededorf), a suburb of Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa. Date: circa 1905

View of Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa
Aerial view of Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa, looking towards the Wanderers Stadium with the suburb of Clifton in the distance. Date: circa 1905

Yeoville, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa
Nazareth House, a care home in Webb Street, Yeoville, a suburb of Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa. Date: circa 1905

Fordsburg, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa
Main Road, Fordsburg, a suburb of Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa. circa 1905

Eloff Street, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa
Junction of Eloff Street and Pritchard Street, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa, with people throwing snowballs after a snowstorm in August 1909. Date: 1909

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