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Cape of Good Hope

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Images from the collections

Images about Cape of Good Hope

3 images from works
  • Cape Colony, South Africa: an African woman and child. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris.
  • Cape of Good Hope, South Africa: houses and Table Mountain. Photograph by Dr Tempest Anderson, 1905.
  • Elevation of the Cape of Good Hope and and map of South Africa. Engraving.

Works from the collections

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    Lunacy administration in Cape Colony / by T. Duncan Greenlees.

    Greenlees, T. Duncan. | Date: 1910
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    Flora Herscheliana : Sir John and Lady Herschel at the Cape 1834 to 1838 / Brian Warner, John Rourke.

    Warner, Brian. | Date: 1998, ©1996
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    A voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, towards the antarctic polar circle, and round the world: but chiefly into the country of the Hottentots and Caffres, from the year 1772 to 1776 / by Andrew Sparrman. Translated from the Swedish [by G. Forster] original with plates.

    Sparrman, Anders, 1748-1820. | Date: 1786
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    Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the Colony on the public health ... / Cape of Good Hope.

    Cape of Good Hope (South Africa). Department of Public Health. | Date: [1906]
    • Ephemera

    Cape of Good Hope : medical practitioner's licence : issued under section 18, Act 34 of 1891.

    | Date: 1901
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