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  • Pritchard Street 
    Unknown (2011-08-02)
    1889, corner of Rissik, showing buildings on present Stuttaford's site. The tower of St. Mary's Hall is in the middle distance. "A hive of industry and a nursery of great expectations..."
  • Market Square, 1900. Johannesburg 
    Unknown (2011-08-04)
    From the Post Office, looking South West. On the extreme right is the Market Hall. 1900.
  • Thabana, Kensington, Johannesburg 
    Photo: F.Fisher (2011-08-04)
    Kensington, originally the home of Mr. Sam Marks, the great Mining Magnate of early Johannesburg. Date Unkown.
  • Chamber of Mines Building 
    Unknown (2011-08-04)
    All Johannesburg's Victorian architecture is stamped with a certain amount of ostentation arising out of exuberant and excessive decoration. Once the early pioneers realised that Johannesburg was there to stay and was ...
  • Steytler's Building 
    Photo: Africana Museum (2011-08-04)
    Facing the Market Square, c/o Market and Loveday Streets. Date unknown.
  • Pritchard Street, 1889. Johannesburg 
    Unknown (2011-08-04)
    Corner of Eloff Street showing on the left, the first Chundleigh's Building site of the present O.K.Bazaars and across the road, the single-storey building on the present Cuthbert's site.
  • Palace Buildings, 1889 
    Donaldson, J.S. (2011-08-04)
    Corner Rissik and Pritchard Streets, Johannesburg's most famous landmark from the historical building point of view. Characterised by its picturesque appearance arising out of intricate detailing and the fascinating, ...
  • Harrison & Market Streets, 1889. Johannesburg 
    Unknown (2011-08-04)
    In the foreground is the old Standard Bank. In this photograph is embodied the character of the mining camp. A great forest of corrugated iron glistening in the midday sun.
  • The Historic Buildings of Johannesburg: Character of late Victorian Architecture. 
    Stoloff, Cyril A. (2011-08-04)
    Letter detailling the history of Johannesburg's late Victorian Architecture, as dispalyed in the Cyrill Stoloff photograph collection. The photographs are held in the Architecture School, Library and Archival Collection, ...
  • Stuttaford & Co. 
    Photo: Africana Museum (2011-08-04)
    The first building in Rissik Street c/o Pritchard Street, originally Thorne & Stuttaford. Date Unknown.
  • Johannesburg's first Public Library 
    Photo: Africana Museum (2011-08-04)
    On the site of the present Woolworth's Building, also the site of the original wood and iron structure of 1894. "Neo-Classic" facade. 1898.
  • Ziman's Building, Johannesburg 
    Photo: Africana Museum (2011-08-04)
    Market Street, which housed the premises of Hepworth's, the clothiers, and the first branch of Cuthbert's, the Shoe store. Adjoining this building in Harrison Street, was the first South African Mutual Building. Date unknown.
  • Paddon & Brock, Johannesburg 
    Unknown (2011-08-04)
    Joubert Street. The firm of Paddon & Brock opened in Johannesburg at the lower end of Market Square in 1887, and erected their new building in 1893 in Pritchard Street, with an entrance also in Joubert Street.
  • Government Buildings, 1887. Johannesburg 
    Unknown (2011-08-04)
    Built in Rissik Street, forming the eastern extremity of the Market Square. This building later became the first Post Office.
  • Rissik Street, 1889. Johannesburg 
    Photo: Africana Museum (2011-08-04)
    An early print showing Palace Building, a well-known city land-mark today. Rissik Street was an important shopping area especially in the 'nineties. 1889.
  • The Market Hall, Johannesburg 
    Unknown (2011-08-04)
    The Market Hall on the left, the Colonial Trust Building and the African City Property Trust Building in the Centre. Date Unkown.
  • First Telephone Exchange. 1891. Johannesburg 
    Unknown (2011-08-04)
    First Telephone Exchange, 1891, Johannesburg.
  • Palace Buildings, 1889 
    Unknown (2011-08-04)
    Seen from Pritchard Street. In the middle distance, adjoining Palace Buildings, is a portion of the well-known Henwood's Building, constructed almost entirely of cast-iron. "Henwood's Arcade" was a great shopping venue ...
  • Markham's, Corporation Buildings. Johannesburg 
    Unknown (2011-08-04)
    c/o Commissioner & Rissik Streets. Date Unknown.
  • Martienssen, Rex Distin. Repertory theatre working drawing. 1928 final year student design project. Plan of tea room and dress circle. 
    Martienssen, Rex Distin (2011-11-08)
    Martienssen, Rex Distin. Repertory theatre. 1928 Final year student design project. Plan of tea room and dress circle.

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