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Calotype 3

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View of the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, by the astronomer Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819-1900), 1842.

Piazzi Smyth's photographic efforts had been encouraged in correspondence with Herschel; the resulting photographs, of which this is one of at least five, are the earliest successful photographs ever to be taken in South Africa.

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