Sujet

'Commission Street, Johannesburg', c1900. Creator: Will B. Robinson.

Légende

'Commission [sic] Street, Johannesburg', c1900. In May 1896, Carl Hertz bought a projector from England and screened the first movie seen in South Africa at the Empire Palace of Varieties on Commissioner Street. After a photograph by H.W. Nicholls. From "Cassell's History of England, Vol. IX". [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris, New York & Melbourne]

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM23A77_004

Model release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

62,7Mo (4,3Mo) / 46,0cm x 34,1cm / 5436 x 4029 (300dpi)

Mots clés

transport transportation exterior outdoors building South Africa architecture arts book British color tram trams location century Britain first literature concept B&W street scene engraved engraving streetcar Johannesburg streetcars road Transport Colour street car black & white black and white B W white and black 1900s 20th century Gauteng The Print Collector TGN outside street engraving Cassells Co Cassell & Co Cassell and Company Ltd Cassell's History of England Cassell & Company Cassell & Commissioner Street street cars Will B. Robinson William B. Robinson Robinson William B. Robinson Will B. Horace Walter Nicholls HW Nicholls Nicholls Horace Walter