EditorialLantern Slide - Penal Settlement, Norfolk Island, circa 1930s, Lantern slide depicting the former penal settlement in Norfolk Island. Part of a collection of 55 photographic lantern slides travel images taken in the Pacific Islands, probably in the lat...
EditorialKorenlichtermans Guild of Amsterdam, Guild Medal of Jacob Jacobsen the Deen, Brass Medal. Front: corn lighter. Reverse: inscription, Amsterdam, Faroe Islands, Jacob Jacobsen, anonymous, 1695, brass (alloy), engraving, d 2.9 cm ? w 6.98 gr.
EditorialLantern Slide - 'Sea Elephants & Gentoo Penguins, Crozet Islands', BANZARE Voyage 1, Antarctica,1929-1930, Lantern slide of a colony of Sea Elephants and Gentoo Penguins, Crozet Islands, Sub-Antarctic. One of 328 images in various formats including art...
EditorialLantern Slide - 'Ashore at the Crozet Islands. Inquisitive Paddys', BANZARE Voyage 1, Antarctica, 1929-1930, Lantern slide of a scientific party from the Discovery on Crozet Islands. One of 328 images in various formats including artworks, photographs,...
EditorialFish, A namazu, the mythical fish located under the islands of Japan that was thought to cause earthquakes. A long fish with inlaid eyes, a wide, flat mouth and beard wires. On the belly an inscription., anonymous, Japan, c. 1600 - c. 1868, Edo-period ...
EditorialAdmiral van der Does's journey to the Canary Islands, Golden Medal. Front: man's bust inside the inside. Reverse: Happiness standing on rock, with Neptune in his car and burning city in the background, Canary Islands, Pieter van der Does, Maurits (Prin...
EditorialLantern Slide - Coastal Landscape, Norfolk Island, circa 1930s, Lantern slide depicting a coastal landscape in which appears to be Norfolk Island. Part of a collection of 55 photographic lantern slides travel images taken in the Pacific Islands, probab...