Newspaper clipping titled: "The capture of Fordsburg"
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“Newspaper clipping titled: "The capture of Fordsburg"”, Cory Library and Historical Archives, accessed 28 December 2025, https://digitalarchives.ru.ac.za/s/cory/item/9492
- Description
- Newspaper clipping titled: "The capture of Fordsburg" showing a group of soldiers in front of a damaged building on Market Square, Fordsburg after a bombardment. The caption below the photograph reads: "After the bombardment: Market Square, Fordsburg, showing the damage done by artillery shells and aeroplane bombs".
- Subject
- Witwatersrand (South Africa) -- History -- Photographs
- Fordsburg (Johannesburg, South Africa) -- History -- Photographs
- Strikes and lockouts -- Gold mining -- South Africa -- History -- Photographs
- Revolutions -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century -- Photographs
- Rand Rebellion -- South Africa -- History -- Photographs
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/38820
- Date Issued
- 1922
- Provenance
- Gold Fields Collection
- Type
- Image
- Genre
- Newspaper article
- Extent
- Newspaper cutting: 1 photo (mounted) 13.5 x 18.5 cm,jpg
- Format
- jpg
- Language
- English
- Location - Physical Location
- Original held at Cory Library for Humanities Research, situated at Rhodes University.
- Location - Copy -- Shelf Locator
- PIC/A 2715_116
- useGuidelines
- In order to obtain a license for the use of any of the images apply to the Cory Library at cory@ru.ac.za
- Item sets
- Gold Fields : Rand Rebellion 1922
- Hierarchies
-
Gold Fields of South Africa Ltd.
- Gold Fields : African Magnates (5 items)
- Gold Fields : Braamfontein Dynamite Explosion (1896) (12 items)
- Gold Fields : British scenes (14 items)
- Gold Fields : Jameson Raid (1895-1896) (74 items)
- Gold Fields : Mines and family views (13 items)
- Gold Fields : Miscellaneous Images (2 items)
- Gold Fields : Photographs of South Africa (1 item)
- Gold Fields : Rand Rebellion 1922 (21 items)
- Gold Fields : South Africa: Souvenir Album (1898) (53 items)
- Gold Fields : South African Views (61 items)
- Gold Fields : South African War Collection (1899-1902)
“Newspaper clipping titled: "The capture of Fordsburg"”, Cory Library and Historical Archives, accessed 28 December 2025, https://digitalarchives.ru.ac.za/s/cory/item/9492
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