EU: Cape Town, South Africa: Government Avenue. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris. (1888)
1888 Cape Town, South Africa
Government Avenue, the oak-lined walkway through Cape Town's Company's Garden, is shown in this 1888 Woodburytype after Robert Harris, a path laid out on land originally cultivated by the Dutch East India Company.
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