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