Americas Collection (page 4)

Vanderbilt House
The luxurious house of W K Vanderbilt on 52nd Street and Fifth Avenue in New York Date: 1885

Cliff Dwellings, America
Cliff dwellings carved out of rock in Cliff Palace Canon, Southwest Colorado Date: circa 1880

Settlers hut, California
Two men standing outside a wooden pioneer hut. Date: 1860

Farmhouse / Pennsylvania
The old John Ross farmhouse at Rossville, near Gettysburg, Pennsylvannia Date: 1860s

Mission, California
The remains of the Mission of San Juan Capistrano, badly damaged by earthquake Date: 1923

Warwick (1587-1658)
Sir Robert Rich (1587-1658), second Earl of Warwick naval commander, especially in the Americas

Lockheed XP-80A -precursor to Americas first production jet fighter Only a handful available before wars end

Fringed epidendrum orchid, native of the Americas and West Indies, Epidendrum ciliare.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtiss

Christopher Columbus nears the New World
Christopher Columbus about to set his eyes on the New World for the first time, after his perilous journey across the Atlantic Ocean, sighting the Bahamas archipelago on 12th October, 1492

Thomas Lipton launches Shamrock IV, 1914
Sir Thomas Lipton photographed at Gosport in June 1914 after his fourth challenger for the Americas Cup had been christened by the Countess of Shaftesbury and safely launched in Portsmouth harbour

Sir Thomas Lipton (1848 - 1931)
Sir Thomas Lipton, creator of the Lipton tea brand and regular challenger for the Americas Cup. Date: 1930

Shamrock I and Shamrock III
During trials for the 1903 Americas Cup off the New York coast, Shamrock III, the challenger that year, races against the challenger in 1899, Shamrock I

Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton, 1st Baronet (18481931) - Scottish self-made man, merchant, and yachtsman. He created the Lipton tea brand

Racing yacht tests in a tank by G. H. Davis
Did trials of models bring Ranger victory? Tests in a tank. How science is called in to help the designers of racing yachts in the United States

The Challenger, Shamrock III
The 1903 unsuccessful challenger for the Americas Cup, Shamrock III (of the Royal Ulster Yacht Club), owned by Sir Thomas Lipton. Date: 1903

Mayflower memorial stone and Tablet, Plymouth, England
The Mayflower memorial stone and Tablet, Plymouth, England. This Pilgrim ship made the historic voyage in 1620 from Plymouth to the New World

Ham - a 37-pound chimpanzee - Americas first astronaut
Ham - a 37-pound chimpanzee - became Americas first astronaut when he was launched from Cape Canaveral aboard the Mercury-Redstone (MR-2) suborbital flight on 31 January 1961

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