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South Africa: the Exchange Buildings in Johannesburg. Photograph by Barnett, 1896.

A woman wearing a decorative dress and head band waves a large flag bearing the words 'Stop AIDS Now'; an advertisement for Women Unite Against AIDS by the Johannesburg City AIDS Prevention Programme. Colour lithograph by Charlotte Preden, ca. 1990's.

South Africa: a crowd of people gathered for trading in a chained off area outside the Johannesburg Securities Exchange. Photograph by Barnett, 1896.

South Africa: a crowd of people gathered outside The Goldfields offices in Johannesburg. 1896.

A syringe forming the 'i' of the word 'AIDS'; a warning about the dangers of spreading AIDS through sharing needles and syringes. Colour lithograph, ca. 1990's (?).

South Africa: Pritchard Street in Johannesburg. Photograph by Barnett, 1896.

Boer War: the High Commissioner for South Africa, Sir Alfred Milner, visiting a hospital ward where two men lie injured. Pen drawing by Sahr, c.1901, after H.D. Collison-Morley.

Reminiscence of the Anglo-Boer War : Masonic Hall, Johannesburg, used as military hospital / Braune & Lévy.

South Africa: Cecil Rhodes's garden near Devil's Peak in Johannesburg. 1896.

South Africa: a large crowd of people gathered outside a building in Johannesburg. 1896.

Johannesburg, South Africa: panoramic view towards the city from Doornfontein. Photograph by Robert Harris, 1889.

Johannesburg, South Africa: bullocks yoked to loaded wagons at the morning market. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris.

Three characters on the stage of a puppet theatre; an advertisement for Puppets against AIDS by the African Research and Educational Puppetry Programme (AREPP). Colour lithograph by Andrew Lindsay, 1993.

Adler Museum of the History of Medicine, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Report of the Medical Officer of Health on the public health and sanitary circumstances of Johannesburg.

Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the years 1922-23 and 1923-24, and review (1902-25) of the public health conditions and progess of Johannesburg.

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Johannesburg

Images from the collections

Images about Johannesburg

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Report of the Medical Officer of Health on the public health and sanitary circumstances of Johannesburg.

Report of the Medical Officer of Health on the public health and sanitary circumstances of Johannesburg.

Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the years 1922-23 and 1923-24, and review (1902-25) of the public health conditions and progess of Johannesburg.

Report of the Medical Officer of Health on the public health and sanitary circumstances of Johannesburg.

Report of the Medical Officer of Health on the public health and sanitary circumstances of Johannesburg.

Johannesburg

Images from the collections

Images about Johannesburg

Works from the collections

Report of the Medical Officer of Health on the public health and sanitary circumstances of Johannesburg.

Report of the Medical Officer of Health on the public health and sanitary circumstances of Johannesburg.

Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the years 1922-23 and 1923-24, and review (1902-25) of the public health conditions and progess of Johannesburg.

Report of the Medical Officer of Health on the public health and sanitary circumstances of Johannesburg.

Report of the Medical Officer of Health on the public health and sanitary circumstances of Johannesburg.

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