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Cartagena. Entrance to the port, prise de Trinca Botijas, View of the entrance to the port of Cartagena, Spain, Views and landscapes in Europe, Africa and Asia, Geographical Sculpture Gallery, collected by MJ Broekhuijsen, Head of a school in Amsterdam, stereograph, Bottom left of photo numbered: 2814., annotation: 'Cartagena, great naval port, one of the best ports of the Mediterranean., The city lies entirely in the background, a good half hour away from us. At the entrance to the port, on the left on a 300 M. high hill, the Château de Galeras, on the right flat, by the sea, the Fort St. Anna, both for the protection of the port., Two breakwaters, one near the Château de Galeras, one to the right on the other side and, further away from us. The entire harbor is 600 HA in size (= as large as . . . . .)', Cartagena (Spain), publisher: Merkelbach & Co., Amsterdam, compiler (person in literature): Martien Johan Broekhuijsen, c. 1905, photographer, compiler (person in literature), pasteboard, paper, albumen print, height 88 mm x width 176 mm, Part of a group of 52 stereophotos used in primary education as a supplement to school charts. The entire series consisted of 274 items in 10 categories (A to K)., landscapes in the temperate zone, harbor, A wide, faded sepia seascape showing a calm body of water bordered by rocky, uneven shorelines and cliffs, with a small cluster of low rectangular buildings situated on a promontory jutting into the water and additional landforms and hills receding into the hazy distance, the foreground dominated by rough, textured rocky ground and sparse vegetation.
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