NATIONAL GEOGRAPHICAL
#85 - CAPE COLONY
Size: 3" x 5"
Copyrighted: 1889
Lithographer: Donaldson Brothers
Area: 219,700
sq. mi
Population: 1,252,347
Government: British Colony
Scenes: Oil Palm; Diamond Fields; View of Cape Town
Although the cards in this
series didn't include any additional descriptive
information for the individual countries, the
subsequently issued
Illustrated
Atlas of Fifty Principal Nations of the World
did devote several paragraphs to
Cape Colony