View of the town of Hobart, Tasmania, with 2,700 inhabitants in 400 homes, 1821. Showing the government building, school, church, prison, battery and telegraph signals. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1823.

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Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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