EU: Cape Town, South Africa: horses and carriages on Adderley Street, with Table Mountain in the background. Photograph by George Washington Wilson, (1896)
1896 Cape Town, South Africa
Horses and carriages on Adderley Street in Cape Town, with Table Mountain visible in the background, photographed by George Washington Wilson in 1896. Adderley Street, then known as Heerengracht until its 1850s renaming, was the city's principal commercial artery.
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