Photographs taken by Dorothea Bleek and in studios for WHI Bleek will, today, in many cases be seen as offensive, racist or otherwise demeaning. By presenting these images here we do not endorse, in any way, the ideas of the time that gave rise to them. While we have not included some of the images in which people were made to pose in objectifying ways we have included other collections of images, acknowledging that scholars and the general publics may want to consult these images in order to understand the condition of the time.
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