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Royal Observatory Greenwich – postcard collection
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Estimated date
 1890s?
Publisher
 Henry Richardson, Greenwich
Publisher's title
 Royal Naval College, Greenwich.
Nominal size
 5.5 x 3.5 inches (real photograph)
Publisher/printer ref.
 187
Website ref.
 PC0816
Links
 Other versions of the same image
Images from different publishers with the same style of handwritten captions

Despite the 1922 postmark, this photograph was probably taken much earlier. Richardson published many of his cards a very long time after the photographs on which they were based were taken. As the onion dome of the Great Equatorial Building was erected in 1893, the postcard cannot be earlier than this. The serial number of the card suggests that it was probably published between 1908–10.
 

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