Black, Chinese and White laborers in a gold mine in South Africa

Discoveries of gold in the African Transvaal (present day Northern South Africa) shortly after 1890 led this region to rise as one of the leading producers of gold into the 20th and 21st centuries.

gold miners

Created/Published: [between 1890 and 1923]
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
DIGITAL ID: (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a40984
URL: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a40984


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