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Various publicity items from the album.

1953 HA 009 BC Std 7 (Grade 9)

1953 HA 010 BC Std 6 (Grade 8)

1954 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.

1953 BC Foundation scholars, view looking across what was later to become the suburb of Parkmore, towards the ridge where Sandton City was built in 1973 on Zandfontein Farm.
This photograph illustrates the remoteness of the St Stithians property at the time the College was founded. The property, itself a portion of the original Driefontein Farm, was surrounded by farmland in 1953.

1953 BC Foundation scholars taken by Miss Doehring.
Legend contained as identified by Mrs Barcza in accompanying document.

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.

1953 HA 008 BP Grade 2 1953 informal. Group picture taken looking towards Zandfontein Farm where Sandton City was later built.

Legend to accompanying photograph as identified by Mrs Barcza, former class teacher.

1954 HA 025a BP Burgess Roughton individual photograph informal

1954 HA 026 BC Std 8 (Grade 10) in classroom

Items collected by Lilian Harris and amalgamated into an album presented to the College following the sudden death of E M Harris in 1961.

1954 HA 025b BP Burgess Roughton in 1964 HMS Conway. (It is understood that Burgess may have been related to either Harris or Mears hence the appearance of the photograph in the albums.)

1963 BC lapel badge Graeme Read with notes
Note identifies Mrs Barcza as having named the boys in the first photograph