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
Carriages and horses on Adderley Street in Cape Town, with Table Mountain behind, photographed by George Washington Wilson in 1896. The street was renamed from Heerengracht in honor of Charles Adderley, a British politician who supported the colony's interests in Parliament.
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