JG Bantjes

Submitted by atom on Mon, 18/05/2020 - 06:57
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ZA WIT001 #_#_A7_#
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Wits University Library
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National Registers of Manuscripts and Photographs (NAREM and NAREF) National Archives' cartographic and library material, microfilms and copies
Description
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Papers; 2 letter-books and 16 items.
Jan Gerrit Bantjes (1843-1914), one of the original prospectors for gold on the Witwatersrand.
-- Included are 8 ALS to Anna Swanepoel who afterwards became his wife; 2 Hg poems addressed to my dearly beloved Annie and 6 other items relating to the family Bantjes.
-- The letter-books cover the years 1887-1910 and contain 1910 Papers; 2 letter-books and 16 items. Jan Gerrit Bantjes (1843-1914), one of the original prospectors for gold on the Witwatersrand.
-- Included are 8 ALS to Anna Swanepoel who afterwards became his wife; 2 Hg poems addressed to my dearly beloved Annie and 6 other items relating to the family Bantjes.
-- The letter-books cover the years 1887-1910 and contain copies of letters in Dutch and English relating to the flotation of mining syndicates and to Bantjes's work as Commandant of the Special Police in Johannesburg, 1900-1901.
-- Also photograph of one of the first wagons to arrive on the Rand.

Administration
Type of Archive: 
Manuscript