EditorialCormorant Cliff, Jamestown, Rhode Island, 1877. William Trost Richards (American, 1833-1905). Watercolor and gouache; sheet: 58.4 x 94.1 cm (23 x 37 1/16 in.).
EditorialThe island of St. Helena, as seen from the north west, with Jamestown, the principal settlement and the head-quarters of the government, in the centre of the picture. Along the sea-front runs a double wall of fortifications, on the centre bastion of wh...
EditorialThe island of St. Helena, as seen from the north west, with Jamestown, the principal settlement and the head-quarters of the government, in the centre of the picture. Along the sea-front runs a double wall of fortifications, on the centre bastion of wh...
EditorialVIEW OF ST. HELENA (JAMESTOWN, AND THE LADDER OF 600 STEPS UP LADDER HILL; FROM MUNDEN'S BATTERY). Saint Helena, named after Saint Helena of Constantinople, is an island of volcanic origin in the South Atlantic Ocean.
EditorialCAPTAIN SMITH, FROM THE PORTRAIT IN HIS VIRGINIA, He was an English soldier, explorer, and author. He was considered to have played an important part in the establishment of the first permanent English settlement in North America. He was a leader of th...
EditorialView of the port of Jamestown, Western Cape, South Africa, with buildings spread out along a narrow valley. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in...
EditorialST. HELENA: 1. View of the Island from the Sea; 2. View from Ladder Hill of the Anchorage, Signal Station, and Barracks; 3. Landing from the Mail Steamer: Heavy Rollers On; 4. Mode of Conveying Hay; 5. Types to be met with in the Streets of Jamestown.