Scenes in Johannesburg
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Scenes in Johannesburg
Description
Top left: A man carrying goods on his head walks past a single storey building with arches around windows and a sign reading 'Fairmount Home'.
Top right: Bree Street (now Lillian Ngoyi Street) Johannesburg, South Africa, with multi storey buildings and busy with vehicles and people. The building on the corner is the Metro theatre.
2nd row, left: A stone building with arched leaded double height doors with skylights above. To each side of the tiled roof are roof lanterns with flat roofs. In front is a lawn bordered with flower beds with a large palm tree at the centre. This is the rear façade of the Johannesburg Art Gallery.
2nd row, right: View across Joubert Park, Johanisburg, with lawns, flower beds and trees with a bench and street light. In the background is the tower on the corner of Twist Street and Hancock Street.
3rd row, left: A sergeant in desert uniform and side cap stands on a road bordered by buildings and trees.
3rd row, right: A man in uniform and side cap leans against a wall beside padlocked garage doors on a residential street with trees.
Bottom: View along a tree lined road towards the Anglo-Boer War Memorial located adjacent to the museum of military history, Johannesburg.
Top right: Bree Street (now Lillian Ngoyi Street) Johannesburg, South Africa, with multi storey buildings and busy with vehicles and people. The building on the corner is the Metro theatre.
2nd row, left: A stone building with arched leaded double height doors with skylights above. To each side of the tiled roof are roof lanterns with flat roofs. In front is a lawn bordered with flower beds with a large palm tree at the centre. This is the rear façade of the Johannesburg Art Gallery.
2nd row, right: View across Joubert Park, Johanisburg, with lawns, flower beds and trees with a bench and street light. In the background is the tower on the corner of Twist Street and Hancock Street.
3rd row, left: A sergeant in desert uniform and side cap stands on a road bordered by buildings and trees.
3rd row, right: A man in uniform and side cap leans against a wall beside padlocked garage doors on a residential street with trees.
Bottom: View along a tree lined road towards the Anglo-Boer War Memorial located adjacent to the museum of military history, Johannesburg.
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Seven b/w photographs on an album page
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PWyrillWR18020187; PWyrillWR18020188; PWyrillWR18020189; PWyrillWR18020190; PWyrillWR18020191; PWyrillWR18020192; PWyrillWR18020193; PWyrillWR18020194;
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“Scenes in Johannesburg,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed February 13, 2026, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/collections/document/52047.







