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Royal Observatory Greenwich – postcard collection
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Estimated date
 c.1675
Publisher
 Anonymous: attributed to Ministry of Works / National Maritime Museum
Publisher's title
 Flamsteed House, Old Royal Observatory, Greenwich, from the south-east, c.1675. National Maritime Museum. Etching by Francis Place.
Nominal size
 6.0 x 4.0 inches (real photograph)
Publisher/printer ref.
 Card 89
Website ref.
 PC0754
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 Other versions of the same image

In this version of the card, the word ‘Londinum.’ has been the 1960s equivalent of ‘photoshopped’ out, as have the horizontal lines that gave texture to the sky.
 

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