Janus: South Africa Illustrated by a series of one hundred and four permanent photographs, Port Elizabeth : R Harris, 1888

RCS/Y305C contains:
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87	Grahamstown Gold Mining Company
88	Heidelberg, Transvaal
89	Little Hell, Elandsberg, road to Barberton
90	Elands Spruit, road to Barberton
91	Devil's Kantoor, De Kaap, Alluvial Gold Fields
92	Barberton, De Kaap Gold Fields
93	Elephants Creek, road from Barberton to Fair View and Eureka City
94	Barberton
95	Republic Gold Mining Company, De Kaap.
96	Republic Gold Mining Company's Battery
97	Sheba Hill, showing Oriental Company, Brays' Golden Quarry and Eureka
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South Africa Illustrated by a series of one hundred and four permanent photographs, Port Elizabeth : R Harris, 1888

Title	Barberton, De Kaap Gold Fields
Reference	Y305C/92
Creator	Harris, Robert, fl 1880-1899, photographer
Covering Dates	1888
Extent and Medium	Good condition.

Content and context

189 x 126 mm. A view of the town of Barberton, the headquarters of the De Kaap gold fields. The neatly laid out houses and streets are enclosed in the semi-circular ridge of hills from which the photograph is taken. The heyday of gold production in the area was from 1882-1887 and this view was probably taken around the end of this period: By the beginning of 1887 it had, indeed, developed into a town of open structure which spread from under the Saddleback to Lomas Ridge, while in the east and west respectively residences of some pretension were being erected on the Berea and in Belgravia' (Praagh, 1906, pp. 360-1).

Further information

Praagh, L. V, ed. (1906), 'The Transvaal and its mines', London; Johannesburg: Praagh & Lloyd.

See Y305C/94 for a view which completes the panoramic view of the town of Barbeton. For further views of the De Kaap gold fields see Y305J109-119.

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Harris, Robert (fl 1880-1899) photographer

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