EU: Cape Town, South Africa: Parliament House with Table Mountain behind. Photograph by George Washington Wilson, (1896)
1896 Cape Town, South Africa
Cape Town's Houses of Parliament with Table Mountain rising behind them, photographed by George Washington Wilson in 1896. The parliament building, completed in the early 1880s, had by this date become a fixture of the city's skyline.
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