Various publicity items from the album.
Sans titre1953 HA 004b Founders formal portrait: Albert Charles Collins
Sans titre1953 HA 009 BC Std 7 (Grade 9)
Sans titre1953 HA 010 BC Std 6 (Grade 8)
Sans titrePortrait photograph of Rev Dr J R Webb who conducted the service of the laying of the College foundation stone. At the time he was the head of the Methodist Church in South Africa.
Sans titre1953 HA 014a Leake lays Foundation Stone
Sans titre1953 HA 018c Chapel Foundation Stone: view of the assembly towards Collins House.
Sans titre1953 HA 019a Chapel Foundation Stone: view of the assembly towards Collins House.
Sans titre1954 HA 025c BP Grade 2 and Grade 3 on gate. It is understood that this was the original gate to the school close to the centre of Randburg. It would have been on the part of the school property that was sold of in the 1980s.
Sans titre1955 HA 038 BC Std 7 (Grade 9) Class
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1955 HA 044 BP Grade 1 Class
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1955 HA 046a First christening with Wally Mears.
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1956 HA 055a Chapel Harris wedding: bride entering the Chapel. The bride is the daughter of EM Harris. This was the first wedding to take place in the Chapel.
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1957 HA 064 Campus aerial view showing the extent of the College buildings and the ring road and the location of the original school gate close to the centre of Randburg.
1958 HA 068a Staff vs OSA Hockey match
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Wally Mears, Steyn Krige
1958 HA 072a Swimming pool: gala scene
1959 HA 074 Swimming gala diving 002
1959 HA 075b Swimming gala presentation
1961 HA 098 Chapel from Chapel Drive
1961 HA 099 Chapel and BC Administration block from Chapel Circle
1961 HA 101 Chapel Quad and BC Teaching block
1961 HA 108 Jamieson Rugby field
Physical album:
The Harris album was compiled from photographs, newspaper cuttings, programmes etc. sent to Miss Harris and her sister, Mrs Hetty Kingswell, in the United Kingdom by Mr E M (Monty) Harris, a founding staff member of the College. A few further photographs and an introductory page were added by Mr Walter Mears, the first headmaster of the College.
Digital album:
The digital album, for ease of use, has been divided into four items, each of which consists of various parts;
Item 1: Complete pages
Item 2: Multi-page documents that are contained within the album. This item allows one to browse through each document individually.
Item 3: Newspaper cuttings that were folded in the album are expanded here for full viewing.
Item 4: All 115 digitised photographs from the album, listed in the chronological order in which they appear in the album.
Items collected by Lilian Harris and amalgamated into an album presented to the College following the sudden death of E M Harris in 1961.
Sans titreNoticeboard near the Corlett Gate entrance erected to advertise the opening of the College.
1953 HA 007c View of construction of BC classroom block from Dining Hall, Feb 1953
Sans titre1953 HA 008 BP Grade 2 1953 informal. Group picture taken looking towards Zandfontein Farm where Sandton City was later built.
Sans titre1953 HA 014b Mrs Mountstephens unveils Founders plaque in the foyer of the Boys' College.
Sans titre1953 HA 015a Chapel Foundation stone assembly
Sans titre1953 HA 018a Chapel Foundation Stone
Sans titre1953 HA 018a Chapel Foundation Stone: view of the assembly.
Sans titre1953 HA 019g Chapel Foundation stone Mr & Mrs Tucker 19530811
Sans titre1953 HA 021a Chapel construction
Sans titre1953 HA 021d BC Classroom block construction: view from Chapel Quad.
Sans titre1954 HA 023 College buildings view to Sandton from orchard
Sans titre1954 HA 031b Chapel opening arrival of families for the opening and dedication of the Chapel on 7th November, 1954 at 15h00.
Sans titre1954 HA 071a Dining Hall, north aspect.
Sans titre1954 HA 071b BC Buildings and Chapel Quad during construction of the Chapel.
Sans titre1953 HA 079 Transvaal Cornish Association trophy presentation. The Chairman of the Association, Mr W T Sherman, presents the trophy to Gilbert Tucker.
Sans titre1954 HA 107a Collins House as seen from the BC Classroom block
Sans titre1955 HA 033b Mr Harris in his study
1955 HA 035 College Staff: by 1955 the College staff complement had increased from 4 to 10.
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1955 HA 037 BC Std 8 (Grade 10) Class photo
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1955 HA 039 BP Std 5 (Grade 7) Class
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1955 HA 041 BP Grade 2 Class
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1956 HA 055b Chapel Harris wedding: Mr & Mrs Hacking. The bride is the daughter of EM Harris. This was the first wedding to take place in the Chapel.
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1956 HA 055d Chapel Harris wedding. The bride enters the Chapel with her father, EM Harris. This was the first wedding to take place in the Chapel. The name of the bridesmaid is not recorded.
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1957 HA 065 BP Nativity Play in Chapel.
1958 HA 070 BC Matric Class (Grade 12)
1958 HA 072d Swimming pool diving scene
1960 HA 085c Chapel with EM Harris car
Extracts from letters written by E M Harris (one of four Founder Members of Staff of the College) to his sister, Lilian, in England between January 1953 and July,1961.
Sans titreThe Harris Album - a visual record of the early history of the school.
The Harris letters - printed and bound copies of the letters sent by EM Harris to his sister in England describing the day by day events that took place in the first eight years of the College.
1953 HA 007b Collins House north
Sans titre1953 HA 007d Collins House north view
Sans titre1953 HA 007e Collins House north view
Sans titre1953 HA 007f Collins House east
Sans titre1953 HA 017b Chapel foundation stone official party at plaque
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Left to right: Reeves, Webb, Tucker, Mountstephens, Leake
1953 HA 019a Chapel Foundation Stone: view of the assembly towards Collins House.
Sans titre1954 HA 025a BP Burgess Roughton individual photograph informal
Sans titre1954 HA 026 BC Std 8 (Grade 10) in classroom
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