Picture credits

The photographs, engravings and the 1892 map on this site come from open collections and are used under the licences below. The still lifes of notebooks, plans and access cards were generated for this site with OpenAI’s image model.

Troye’s Map of the Transvaal, sheet V (Pretoria, 1892), detail of the Johannesburg–Pretoria road
Gustav Arthur Troye; Wurster, Randegger & Co. · public domain · via Wikimedia Commons
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A Johannesburg Summers Day
Ryanj93 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons
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Aerial view of Johannesburg, 1954 (Touring Club Italiano archive)
Unknown author · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons
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The open-air share market ‘Between the Chains’, Johannesburg, c. 1890–1920
Rijksmuseum · CC0 · via Wikimedia Commons
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A coach on the road from Johannesburg, at a roadside hotel and store, c. 1890–1920
Rijksmuseum · CC0 · via Wikimedia Commons
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A banking hall in Washington, D.C., 1920
National Photo Company Collection · public domain · via Wikimedia Commons
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IBM record cards in storage, Federal Records Center, Alexandria, Virginia, 1959
NARA · public domain · via Wikimedia Commons
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The Tabulating Machine Company, Washington, D.C.
Harris & Ewing, photographer · public domain · via Wikimedia Commons
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Dusk over Syferfontein, south-west of Johannesburg
Greg Zaal (panorama), Jarod Guest (sky edits) · CC0 · via Wikimedia Commons
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The Johannesburg Water tower in Midrand
NJR ZA · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikimedia Commons
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Glen Austin Bird Sanctuary, Midrand
Ossewa · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons
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Evening cloud bank over Pretoria, seen from Skeerpoort
JMK · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons
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Johannesburg at sunrise, with the M1 in the foreground
Dylan Harbour · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikimedia Commons
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The Post Office and a bank building, Pretoria, 1896
Rijksmuseum · CC0 · via Wikimedia Commons
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Church Street East, Pretoria, 1896
Rijksmuseum · CC0 · via Wikimedia Commons
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The Government Buildings (Raadsaal), Pretoria, 1896
Rijksmuseum · CC0 · via Wikimedia Commons
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The Wemmer gold mine, Johannesburg, 1896
Rijksmuseum · CC0 · via Wikimedia Commons
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Commissioner Street, Johannesburg, 1896
Rijksmuseum · CC0 · via Wikimedia Commons
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An ox wagon crossing the Crocodile River, between 1886 and 1896
Rijksmuseum · CC0 · via Wikimedia Commons
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The Mutual Buildings, Johannesburg, 1896
Rijksmuseum · CC0 · via Wikimedia Commons
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Pritchard Street, Johannesburg, 1896
Rijksmuseum · CC0 · via Wikimedia Commons
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Pretoria station, between 1886 and 1896
Rijksmuseum · CC0 · via Wikimedia Commons
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Johannesburg, Midrand and Pretoria from the International Space Station, 29 June 2022 (ISS067-E-170380)
Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · public domain · via Wikimedia Commons
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A main operating telegraph room, from ‘Telephones and telegraphs: 1902’
Internet Archive Book Images · no known copyright restrictions · via Wikimedia Commons
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The Hughes printing telegraph, Popular Science Monthly, 1873
Unknown author · public domain · via Wikimedia Commons
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A Hollerith tabulating machine at the municipal gas and electricity works, Leiden
Unknown author · CC0 · via Wikimedia Commons
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A Hollerith card sorter at the municipal gas and electricity works, Leiden
Unknown author · CC0 · via Wikimedia Commons
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