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Author:Walker, Michael
Year:2013
Title:The pioneer architects of Johannesburg and their buildings (1886 - 1899) with postcard illustrations
Place:St James
Publisher:The Kalk Bay Historical Association

This book covers the early background of some nineteen overseas pioneer architects who endured the rigours of pre-1900 travel to practise their profession in the mining town of Johannesburg which later, due to the discovery of gold, became a prosperous city.

These architects in their designs of European architecture, foreign to the Transvaal Republic (ZAR), contributed greatly to the adornment of a town bereft of natural beauty.

Their works are illustrated on many picture postcards in an era where postage was cheap and cameras rare.

Read a book review by Kathy Munro.


Towns linked to this book

Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp All

People or firms linked to this book

ABURROW, Charles. pp 45-49, 65
BANNISTER, William Ernest. pp 37
BEARDWOOD, John Francis. pp 51-53
BRAUER, CH. pp 63
CANNING, Francis Lennox. pp 13, 31
CARTER, Arthur. pp 54
CULLINAN, Sir Thomas Major. pp 13, 48, 49
DELBRIDGE, William John. pp 14, 60
DICKSON, George Arthur Hamilton. pp 16, 33, 37
DONALDSON, John Stanislaus. pp 23
EAGLE, Piercy James (Patrick). pp 20
EAST, Hubert Springford. pp 14
EMLEY, Frank. pp 24, 28-34
GOAD, Frederick George. pp 13, 31
GREEN, Frederick George. pp 36
HARRISON, John Edwin. pp 37, 44, 45
HOWDEN, Robert. pp 49, 50, 61
KALLENBACH, Hermann. pp 59, 67
LECK, William. pp 26, 28-34
LINDHORST, Johannes Victor. pp 17, 23
McCOWAT, Robert Lockhart. pp 10-16, 62
McINTOSH, Frank Gordon. pp 54
MEISCHKE, Mattheus Carel August. pp 20, 49
MENZE, A Paul. pp 63
MOFFAT, John Abraham. pp 16, 54-59, 65
PERRY, John. pp 28
RANSOME, George. pp 8
REID, Harry Austin. pp 35, 36
REID, Walter. pp 60, 61
REID, Arthur Henry. pp 6, 9-15, 60, 62
SCHAERER, Theophile. pp 63
SCOTT, Frank. pp 25
SMITH, TH. pp 63
SPICER, Harold Wolseley. pp 30
STEWART, Arthur James. pp 49
STUCKE, William Henry. pp 36-44
TONKIN, Wilfred Wiseman. pp 20
TREEBY, Philip Edward. pp 46-49, 65
TULLY, John Collingwood. pp 45
TYRWHITT, Thomas. pp 20
VAN LISSA, Victor Alexander Herman Claudius. pp 7, 22
VIXSEBOXSE, Johannes Egbertus. pp 13, 20
WELLMAN, Ernest James. pp 27
WIERDA, Sytze Wopkes. pp 7, 13, 18-22
WILLIAMS, Alfred CB. pp 14
WILSON, Allen. pp 55