Johannesburg One Hundred, a pictorial history by Ellen Palestran

Johannesburg One Hundred, a pictorial history by Ellen Palestran
Johannesburg One Hundred, a pictorial history - Ellen Palestran (AD Donker, 1986) This is a fairly comprehensive history of the city in just under 150 pages, taking the story up until the mid-1980s. It covers the usual growth highlights and other dramatic events, like the dynamite explosion, Halley's Comet in 1910, the Foster Gang and the 1922 Miners' Strike. Apart from a brief mention of Alexandra township and the 1976 strikes, it is very much a book of white people in the city, but is nonetheless a useful read, with lots of great black and white pictures

Johannesburg One Hundred, a pictorial history - Ellen Palestran (AD Donker, 1986)

This is a fairly comprehensive history of the city in just under 150 pages, taking the story up until the mid-1980s. It covers the usual growth highlights and other dramatic events, like the dynamite explosion, Halley's Comet in 1910, the Foster Gang and the 1922 Miners' Strike. Apart from a brief mention of Alexandra township and the 1976 strikes, it is very much a book of white people in the city, but is nonetheless a useful read, with lots of great black and white pictures