EU: Cape Town (1897)
1897 Cape Town, South Africa
Cape Town, South Africa, photographed in 1897, when the city served as capital of the British-ruled Cape Colony. Founded by the Dutch East India Company in 1652, Cape Town had grown by the late nineteenth century into the major port and administrative center of southern Africa.
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