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Bicycle balance, Sophiatown, 1955

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Balancing act, Sophiatown, 1955. Writers, musicians, politicians and journalists lived side-by-side with gangsters, shebeen queens, and Sophia bohemians, like the one pictured here.

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Title
Bicycle balance, Sophiatown, 1955
Creator
Schadeberg, Jurgen, 1931-
Subject
Sophiatown (Johannesburg, South Africa)--Social conditions, Children--South Africa--Sophiatown (Johannesburg), Entertainers--South Africa--Sophiatown (Johannesburg), Bicycles--South Africa--Sophiatown (Johannesburg)
Description
Balancing act, Sophiatown, 1955. Writers, musicians, politicians and journalists lived side-by-side with gangsters, shebeen queens, and Sophia bohemians, like the one pictured here.
Publisher
University of Cape Town. Libraries
Contributor
Date
1955
Type
Format
still image, documentary photographs, black-and-white photographs, Image/jpeg
Identifier
islandora:7425
Source
Best of SA collection
Language
Relation
Coverage
Rights
Copyright held by the photographer, Jrgen Schadeberg. Please contact the Special Collections at the University of Cape Town Libraries for further information about using and/or publishing this photograph.

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