VIEW ORIGINAL.........for a fascinating look at what the city looked like 122 years ago. Virtually all the well known streets are there albeit, sparsely populated.. Today’s residential areas were mostly farms and small-holdings.. Unfortunately a small area on the right (Sea Point) has been damaged and the ‘repair job’ could have been better, but still gives a good indication of the lay of the land.

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Cape Town in 1900s. Even that long ago people were streaming to the Cape for our sunshine and produce.

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Simon's Town, Cape Colony, 1870s

Table Mountain maps illustrating history, ecology, and natural history of Cape Town and it's relationship to the mountain it sits at the foot of.

Cape Town's first theatre, from an undated Maskew Miller publication of Lady Anne Barnard's diaries

The featured vessel in this painting is the American bark, William Holes. She was rounding the Cape of Good Hope from Singapore en route to New York when she went aground on a reef off Struis Point. The ships' log reveals the predicament. "Put in leaky. Struck reef off Struis Point and bumped very heavily. After setting all sail ship came off. Found her making water rapidly. All hands worked pumps. Water gained rapidly so made for Table Bay as vessel could not have kept afloat much longer."…

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Cape Town 1800

Cape Town 1800

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From an engraved wood panel from D. Wangemann's book 'Ein zweites Reisejahr in Süd-Afrika'

This hand colored map is a c. 1764 map of the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Town, South Africa. Attributed to French cartographer Jacques-Nicholas Bellin, this map was issued both in Bellin's Le Petit Atlas Maritime Recueil de Cartes et de Plans des Quatre Parties du Monde and in the French edition of Provost's Histoire des Voyages. Beautifully rendered mountains and villages show the area in considerable detail. Bellin identifies the 'Village of the Hottentots,' Blue Mountain, Cow Mountain…

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c1725 Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën