Dancing at the Ritz, Johannesburg, 1952

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Title: Dancing at the Ritz, Johannesburg, 1952
Creator: Schadeberg, Jurgen, 1931-
Subject: Johannesburg (South Africa)--Social conditions, Entertainers--South Africa--Johannesburg, Dancers--South Africa--Johannesburg, Nightclubs--South Africa--Johannesburg
Description: The Ritz, downtown Johannesburg, was the place to go for a jive come Friday night. The Johannesburg townships expressed all the vigour and optimism of the new post-war generation with exuberant music and dance, before the full oppression of apartheid closed in on them. Johannesburg, 1952.
Publisher: University of Cape Town. Libraries
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Date: 1952
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Format: still image, documentary photographs, portrait photographs, black-and-white photographs, Image/jpeg
Identifier: islandora:7439
Source: Best of SA collection
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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.