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The wealth of reference and research materials in this file are divided into the following sections: BACKGROUND HERITAGE DOCUMENTS - which include various reports and submissions, e.g. Johannesburg Fort specifications, The Old Fort: proposals for the development of the buildings and land of the Fort site for a museum of racial tolerance and a centre of reconciliation (1996), the restoration of the Johannesburg Fort: a living museum of military and penal history (1992); EXHIBITION TEAM DOCUMENTS - which include the Constitution Hill Draft Interpretative Plan (2003), Part I: The Old Fort and its satellites 1893-1910 and Part II: A history of the elements of the Johannesburg Prison Complex 1910-1988, A concise history of the Old Fort and associated buildings from 1893 to the present, Constitution Hill Exhibition Walkthrough, Fort Report Database; Newspaper articles; Maps; General images of the Fort. The sections on EARLY JOHANNESBURG - THE BUILDINGS OF THE JAIL; THE JAMESON RAID; THE ANGLO-BOER WAR AND THE BRITISH OCCUPATION OF THE FORT contain numerous photocopies of documents and photographs sourced from other museums and/or archives. |
