Atlas Gallery

Andrea Biancos Atlas, 1436. Page 10, World Map

"Andrea Bianco's Atlas, 1436. Page 10, World Map, the East is on the upper side. First time Florida coast is depicted as a big peninsula linked to an island called Antillia (legendary island) or "ilha das Sete Cidades" in Portuguese. Miniature Painting. ITALY. Venice. Biblioteca nazionale marciana (St. Mark's Library)."

© Mary Evans/BeBa/Iberfoto

Syphilis symptoms on the body

Diffused papular syphillde before treatment 1, same after treatment with mercury 2, papular syphilide with scales on back 3, and syphilitic lichen on sides and arms 4. Chromolithograph by T. Sinclaire from Freeman J. Bumstead's Atlas of Venereal Diseases, Henry C. Lea, Philadelphia, 1868. First American edition of Auguste Cullerier's Precis iconographique des maladies veneriennes

© Florilegius

Rif War - French-Moroccan Machine Guns in Atlas Mountains

Rif War - French-Moroccan Machine Gun post in the Atlas Mountains, Morocco. The Rif War was an armed conflict fought during the first half of the 1920s between the colonial power Spain (later joined by France) and the Berber tribes of the Rif mountainous region, led by Abd el-Krim. After France's entry into the conflict (which provides a good date for this photograph) and the major landing of Spanish troops at Al Hoceima, Abd el-Krim surrendered to the French and was taken into exile. Date: circa 1925

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection