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Calotype 4

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

The beginning of the watermark - 'J. Whatman' - of the paper on which the calotype is made is just visible.

With Calotype 3, the earliest successful photograph to be taken in South Africa.

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