EU: Cape Town, South Africa: The docks at Cape Town (1896)
1896 Cape Town, South Africa
The docks at Cape Town, photographed in 1896. The harbor, expanded through breakwater and reclamation works in the preceding decades, handled the shipping traffic that made Cape Town the principal port of the Cape Colony.
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Cape Town through time — all 168 photos taken here (1888–2018) →
