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Robinson Crusoe's Cave (Island of Juan Fernandez)

Date: 1860
Medium: Albumen silver print
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

A man sits at the mouth of a cave that was supposedly used as shelter by Alexander Selkirk, the sailor who became the inspiration for the novel, "Robinson Crusoe," by Daniel Defoe.

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