£550
GOLD MINING IN SOUTH AFRICA: album of photographs from the Driefontein, Witwatersrand, South Africa, 1938. Oblong 4to, padded leather album with upper cover detached: contains 48 photographs, window mounted, each 15 x 20cm, depicting surface machinery and buildings (7 images) and detailed views taken underground (41) mostly of men at work or posed portraits at working face. The Driefontein goldmine was established after a survey made in 1937, at one time the largest gold mine on the continent of Africa. (1)
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