Amazonian Collection

Sophia Loren / Amazon
SOPHIA LOREN Italian film actress, seen here in Amazonian pose on board a ship

Ripley Odditorium - New York, USA - A Shrunken Human Head
Ripley Odditorium - New York, USA - An Amazonian Shrunken Human Head. According to the card caption, although many years old, the hair still grows... Date: 1939

Examples of mimicry among butterflies
Plate from On the lepidoptera of the Amazon Valley. Transactions of the Linnean Society, by H.W. Bates, 1862

Capuchinbird, Perissocephalus tricolor, and Amazonian umbrellabird, Cephalopterus ornatus.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croixs Dictionary of Natural Science

A Catch of Arapaima Fish
A catch of arapaima fish. Native to the Amazon and Essequibo basins of South America, they are among the world's largest freshwater fish. Date: 1924

Preparing Caoutchouc, a natural rubber produced in Amazon region. From the beginning of the second half of the 19th century, rubber was desirable commodity, valued at a high price

Surinam horned frog, Ceratophrys cornuta
Surinam or Amazonian horned frog, Ceratophrys cornuta (Horned toad, Rana cornuta). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Hill after an illustration by George Shaw from his General Zoology, Amphibia

Exotic scarab beetles
Giant dung beetle, Heliocopris gigas (Copris isidis) 1, giant Amazonian carrion scarab beetle, Coprophanaeus lancifer (Phanaeus lancifer) 2, Egyptian scarab beetle

Amazonian motmot, Momotus momota (Brasilian momot, Momota brasiliensis). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder

Amazonian umbrellabird and regent bowerbird
Amazonian umbrellabird, Cephalopterus ornatus, and regent bowerbird, Sericulus chrysocephalus (male). Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rene Primevere Lessons Complements de Buffon

Dugong and Amazonian manatee
Dugong, Dugong dugon, vulnerable 1 and Amazonian manatee, Trichechus inunguis, vulnerable 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder

Amazonian Adventure - article in the Sphere
Amazonian Adventure - an account of a 3, 000 mile-journey along the Amazon written and illustrated by Victor Coverley-Price Date: 1st March 1932

WW2 - Returning soldier is giving a fulsome welcome home
" Let us Strive without failing in faith or in duty" - Winston Churchill Encirclement ! A returning soldier is giving a fulsome welcome home by his wife and small son. Date: 1944

Heroine with Sword, Apple

Piaroas ceremonial masks. 1960. Venezuela
Piaroas ceremonial masks: Spirit of the Forest (Redyo), monkey and Peccary mask. 1960. Venezuela. Ethnographic Museum. Budapest. Hungary

Morpho menelaus, Amazonian butterfly
An iridescent butterfly from the Amazon. Specimen from display at the Natural History Museum at Tring, part of the Natural History Museum, London

Fantastic Adventures - Lair of the Grimalkin
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, April 1948, featuring the story Lair of the Grimalkin by G. H. Irwin. Amazonian beauty in purple dress with flowers in her hair walks nervously through a swamp with an

Thalestris, Queen of the Amazons
Thalestris (fl 334 BCE), Queen of the Amazons. circa early 19th century

Smooth-billed ani, Crotophaga ani, and Amazonian white-tailed trogon, Trogon viridis.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croixs Dictionary of Natural Science

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The fruits of success - A Chorus Girl visits home
The fruits of success - An all-American chorus girl visits home and is greeted by surprise and a certain element of bemusement

The first Steam-boat on the Amazon
Page 491 from Journey Across South America Vol.2, 1873 by P Marcoy

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South American Forest I. Date c1873

Wild Southern Bolivian Indians Date: circa 1908

A beached Amazon River Dolphin
A beached Amazon river dolphin, a freshwater river dolphin endemic to the Orinoco, Amazon and Araguaia/Tocantins River systems of Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela

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