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Cacao Collection

Background imageCacao Collection: Theobroma cacao, cocoa pod

Theobroma cacao, cocoa pod
Plate 49 from Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous (1858) by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn (1829-1928)

Background imageCacao Collection: Cocoa or cacao bean, Theobroma cacao

Cocoa or cacao bean, Theobroma cacao. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehlers Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887

Background imageCacao Collection: Cacao or cocoa tree, Theobroma cacao

Cacao or cocoa tree, Theobroma cacao. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse

Background imageCacao Collection: Horseback Red Indian hunting buffalo with bow and arrow

Horseback Red Indian hunting buffalo with bow and arrow. Date: circa 1890s

Background imageCacao Collection: Cacao, cocoa or chocolate tree, Theobroma cacao

Cacao, cocoa or chocolate tree, Theobroma cacao
Sprig of the cacao, cocoa or chocolate tree, Theobroma cacao, with bean, fruit and seed. Copperplate engraving after an original illustration by Captain John Gabriel Stedman from his Narrative of a

Background imageCacao Collection: Seed and fruit plants

Seed and fruit plants including cacao, calabash nutmeg, pawpaw, sugar apple, durian, tea, camellia, cotton, magnolia, peony, geranium, nasturtium, etc

Background imageCacao Collection: Cacao or cocoa tree and fruit, Theobroma cacao

Cacao or cocoa tree and fruit, Theobroma cacao. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by P. Sluyter after an illustration by Maria Sibylla Merian from Metamorphosis of the Insects of Surinam

Background imageCacao Collection: Cocoa or cacao leaf, Theobroma cacao

Cocoa or cacao leaf, Theobroma cacao. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehlers Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887

Background imageCacao Collection: Golden lion tamarin (endangered), Andean condor

Golden lion tamarin (endangered), Andean condor
Golden lion tamarin, Leontopithecus rosalia (endangered), Andean condor, Vultur gryphus, and cacao tree, Theobroma cacao. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Migliavacca from Giulio Ferrrarios

Background imageCacao Collection: Olive tree and cacao tree

Olive tree and cacao tree
Olive, Olea europaea 1, and cacao or cocoa tree, Theobroma cacao 2, with cacao fruit and beans. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder

Background imageCacao Collection: Chocolate or cocoa tree, Theobroma cacao

Chocolate or cocoa tree, Theobroma cacao. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants, London, 1880

Background imageCacao Collection: Whalers slice open their catch and find Jonah

Whalers slice open their catch and find Jonah !! Date: circa 1910

Background imageCacao Collection: Two children playing in their garden with their dolly

Two children playing in their garden with their dolly
Two French children playing in their garden with their dolly Date: circa 1890s

Background imageCacao Collection: Two children write the name of their favourite hot chocolate

Two children write the name of their favourite hot chocolate
Two children write the name of their favourite brand of hot chocolate (Cacao Van Houten) on a wall. Date: circa 1890s

Background imageCacao Collection: Cacao (Cocoa) harvesting in Equador

Cacao (Cocoa) harvesting in Equador. Date: circa 1930s

Background imageCacao Collection: Droste Drinking Chocolate Tin - Haarlem, The Netherlands

Droste Drinking Chocolate Tin - Haarlem, The Netherlands
Droste Drinking Chocolate Tin - manufactured at Haarlem, The Netherlands. Date: circa 1930s

Background imageCacao Collection: Witte Huis (White House), Rotterdam, Netherlands

Witte Huis (White House), Rotterdam, Netherlands
Witte Huis (White House), Wijnhaven, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Built in 1898 in Art Nouveau style, it was claimed to be the first high-rise building in Europe. Date: circa 1910

Background imageCacao Collection: Theobroma cacao, cocoa plant

Theobroma cacao, cocoa plant
Plate 178 from the John Reeves Collection of Botanical Drawings from Canton, China. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageCacao Collection: Maison Sargos at a cacao and coffee plantation, Congo

Maison Sargos at a cacao and coffee plantation, Congo
Maison Sargos at a cacao and coffee plantation in the Kouilou Department in south of the Republic of the Congo (then French Equatorial Africa) at the west coast of Africa. Date: circa 1910

Background imageCacao Collection: Advert for Cacao Suchard 1910

Advert for Cacao Suchard 1910
Cacao Suchard advertisement Date: 1910

Background imageCacao Collection: Theobroma cacao, cocoa tree

Theobroma cacao, cocoa tree
Watercolour on paper by Evelyn M. Woolward (fl.1880-90s). Held in the Library and Archives

Background imageCacao Collection: Guatemala. Tikal. Maya Art

Guatemala. Tikal. Maya Art
GUATEMALA. Tikal. Tikal National Park. Gran Plaza. Temple of the Great Jaguar, Ah Cacao or Temple I. Maya art. Architecture

Background imageCacao Collection: Theobroma cacao

Theobroma cacao
Cocoa plant brought back from Jamaica in 1689 by Hans Sloane. Illustration by Everhardus Kickius. Specimen kept in the Botany Library

Background imageCacao Collection: Cocoa nucifera L. coco palm

Cocoa nucifera L. coco palm
Coconut and coco palm illustrations from Koehlers Medizinal-Pflanzen in naturgetreuen Abbildungen, 1887-1888, held in the Natural History Museums Botany Library

Background imageCacao Collection: Theobroma cacao, cocoa

Theobroma cacao, cocoa
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageCacao Collection: Theobroma cacao, cacao tree

Theobroma cacao, cacao tree
A specimen from the collection of Sir Hans Sloane. The seeds of this plant - cocoa, are the source of chocolate

Background imageCacao Collection: Theobroma cacao, cacao

Theobroma cacao, cacao
A photograph of six of decorative ceiling panels from the roof of the Natural History Museums Central Hall showing Theobroma cacao, cacao

Background imageCacao Collection: Theobroma cacao, cocoa; Syzygium aromaticum, cloves; Myristi

Theobroma cacao, cocoa; Syzygium aromaticum, cloves; Myristi
Plate 1 by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn (1829-1928). Entitled A group from Burlgaar. Held at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageCacao Collection: Theobroma cacao, chocolate

Theobroma cacao, chocolate
Collected by Sir Hans Sloane in Jamaica. Specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageCacao Collection: Cacao Suchard advertisement

Cacao Suchard advertisement
Illustration of traditional French songs from one of twelve postcards: J ai du bon tabac dans ma tabati? 1903

Background imageCacao Collection: Cacao Van Houten

Cacao Van Houten
CACAO VAN HOUTEN

Background imageCacao Collection: Plant / Theobroma Cacao

Plant / Theobroma Cacao
The fruit of the cocoa (or chocolate) plant THEOBROMA CACAO

Background imageCacao Collection: CACAO

CACAO
Cocoa (or chocolate) plant bearing fruit THEOBROMA CACAO



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