Contact Information

• Name:

  Brenthurst Library

• Postal Address:

  P.O. Box 87184
  2041 Houghton
  South Africa

• Telephone:

  (27) 11 646-6024

• Facsimile:

  (27) 11 486-1651

• E-mail:

  marcelle.weiner@brenthurst.co.za

• URL:

  http://www.brenthurst.org.za/Default.htm

• Year founded:

  1920

Collections

• Type of repository:

  Library

• Types of source material:

  Archival records
  Business records
  Ecclesiastical records
  Ephemera
  Grey literature
  Manuscripts
  Maps
  Newspapers
  Personal papers
  Photographs
  Posters
  

• Size:

  around 25,000 books and other printed works

• Holdings:

  Manuscripts, archival records, artworks relating to Southern Africa in general. Special areas of collection include early explorers; natural history; South African War, 1899-1902; Zulu War, 1879, missionary endeavor; Frontier Wars 1779-1878.

• Receiving new material?

  No

• Languages:

  English, Afrikaans, Zulu, Xhosa, Tswana, and other Southern African languages, German, Dutch, French and others.
  

Access Conditions

• Access conditions:

  Privately owned. By prior appointment only to Bona Fide Research workers. Must complete a research application and abide by the conditions for the consultation of material.

• Access restrictions:

  Restrictions on embargoed material and material intended for later publication.

• Finding tools:

  Electronic catalogs
  Inventories
  

• Copier available?:

  No

Repository publications: