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Charles Piazzi Smyth
View of the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope
1842
Calotype
Museum of the History of Science
LL/39611
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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Charles Piazzi Smyth, 1842, "View of the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope", Calotype, Museum of the History of Science, LL/39611
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