Chile Collection

HMS Good Hope in Great War Deeds, WW1
HMS Good Hope of the British Royal Navy going down with her last guns firing, in an action against overwhelming odds off the coast of Chile, South America

Chilean Indian Woman weaving a blanket on a frame set against the thatched roof of her house Date: circa 1904

Vina del Mar, Chile - Panorama of Miramar
Panoramic view of the Miramar beach area of Via del Mar (Spanish for Vineyard of the Sea ), also known locally as La Ciudad Jardin (Spanish for The Garden City)

Parma was a four-masted steel-hulled barque which was built in 1902 as Arrow for the Anglo-American Oil Co Ltd, London. In 1912 she was sold to F. Laeisz, Hamburg, Germany

Calle Comercio (Commercial Road), Concepcion, Chile. Date: 1904

Street scene in Iquique, Tarapaca, Chile, South America, showing the Hotel Ingles, the Hotel Colon (named after Columbus), the Money Exchange and the American Saloon. Date: 1910s

Chile - Valparaiso - Avenue Pedro Montt, Teatro Victoria. Date: circa 1930s

Chile - Bank and Spanish Consulate - Punta Arenas
Chile - The Anglo Bank and Spanish Consulate - Punta Arenas (Magallanes Province). Date: circa 1910s

Dance / Chile / La Cueca
Dancing the Cueca

Chilean Grain Seller
Mote (grilled grain) is sold and eaten on the street

Pedro De Valdivia
PEDRO DE VALDIVIA - Spanish conquistador in Chile and Peru (founder of Santiago). Date: 1498 - 1553

Chile - Santiago - The Union Club (Club de la Union) on Avenue de las Delicias! Date: circa 1910s

Chile - Santiago - Mapocho Station
Chile - Santiago - The elegant and attractive front of Mapocho Station. Now a cultural centre. Date: circa 1910s

Chilean National Flag Date: circa 1910s

Argentina - Tronador
Tronador viewed from the chapel at Llao Llao - Tronador is an extinct stratovolcano in the southern Andes at the border between Argentina and Chile near the city of Bariloche

Dampier in Chile
William Dampier witnesses the reunion of Mesquito men on the Islands of Juan Fernandez

Blue nasturtium or Indian cress, Tropaeolum azureum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by G. Barclay after Miss Sarah Drake from John Lindley and Robert Sweets Ornamental Flower Garden

Valparaiso, Chile

Chile, Route De Santiago

Chile, Valparaiso

Pitts S-2S aircraft
Fuerza Aerea de Chile - Pitts S-2S aircraft of the Escuadrilla de Alta Acrobacia Halcones aerobatic display team Date: 1989

HMS Eagle 94
Royal Navy - HMS Eagle 94, an aircraft carrier converted from the Almirante Latorre-class battleship Almirante Cochrane, ordered by Chile, but never delivered. Date: 1929

Lockheed C-130H Hercules 996
Fuerza Aerea de Chile - Lockheed C-130H Hercules 996 (msn 4496), at RAF Fairford on 18 July 1987. (Fuerza Aerea de Chile - Chilean Air Force) Date: 1987

Pavilion of Chile, Paris Exhibition of 1889
Pavilion of Chile, Universal Exhibition of Paris, 1889 Date: 1889

Entrance to the Chilean Section, Paris Exhibition of 1889
Entrance to the Chilean Section of Universal Exhibition of Paris, 1889 Date: 1889

Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet and communist politician
Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), Chilean poet and Communist Party politician, previously named Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. Date: circa 1960s

CASA C-212 Aviocar 146
Armada de Chile - CASA C-212M-100 Aviocar 146 (msn C.212-A11-2-135), of VC-1. (Armada de Chile - Chilean Navy). Date: circa 1985

Extra EA. 300 - L 149 - 1
Fuerza Aerea de Chile - Extra EA.300-L 149 - 1 (msn 149)m of La Escuadrilla de alta acrobacia Halcones. (Fuerza Aerea de Chile - Chilean Air Force) Date: circa 2000

Gulfstream G-IV 911
Fuerza Aerea de Chile - Gulfstream G-IV 911 (msn 1089), at RAF Fairford for the Royal International Air Tattoo on 20 July 2002. (Fuerza Aerea de Chile - Chilean Air Force) Date: 2002

Wreck of the ship Cromdale at the Lizard
The British built iron sailing barque Cromdale ran into the Lizard rocks in thick fog on May 23 1913. She was carrying a cargo of nitrates from Chile and was a total wreck Date: 1913

Santiago, Chile - Santa Lucia Hill (Cerro Santa Lucia). The hill comprises a 65, 300 square metre park adorned with ornate facades, stairways and fountains

La Swerena Chile, view looking south
Vintage 19th century photograph: La Swerena Chile, view looking south

Entrance to the Rosario Mine, Tamaya, Chile
Vintage 19th century photograph: entrance to the Rosario Mine, Tamaya, Chile

Railroad, railway between Tongoy and Tamaya, Chile
Vintage 19th century photograph: railroad, railway between Tongoy and Tamaya, Chile, incline of 5 percent

Santiago, Chile, high angle view
Vintage 19th century photograph: Santiago, Chile, high angle view

South America, traditional house, probably Chile
Vintage 19th century photograph: South America, traditional house, proably Chile

Lota, Chile. Biobio Region
Vintage 19th century photograph: Lota, Chile. Lota is a city and commune located in the center of Chile on the Gulf of Arauco, in the southern Concepcion Province of the Biobio Region

Monument Church Company fire, Santiago de Chile
Vintage 19th century photograph: monument to the victims of the the Church of the Company fire, Santiago de Chile. The Church of the Company Fire (8 December 1863)

View of the coastline at Lotilla, Chile
Vintage 19th century photograph: view of the coastline at lotilla, Chile

Evening primroses
Evening primrose, Oenothera speciosa, Oenothera missouriensis. Chromolithograph from an illustration by Desire Bois from Edward Steps Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse, Frederick Warne

Santiago Metropolitan Cathedral, Santiago, Chile. Construction of the neoclassical cathedral began in 1753 and ended in 1799. The architect was the Italian Gioacchino Toesca. Date: 1904

Entrance of the Presidencial Palace (Vina del Mar), Chile - two reproduction Easter Island Heads (Moai) stand guard before the gateway

Costumes of the common native people of Concepcion, Chile. The man in a poncho and hat, the woman in shawl and skirt with petticoats

Spanish commandant and a woman of Concepcion, Chile, in full skirts with petticoats, plaited hair and shawl. Illustration by Gaspard Duche de Vancy from Jean Francois Laperouses Voyage

Conanthera campanulata (Hyacinth-flowered cummingia, Cummingia campanulata). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after a botanical illustration by Edward Dalton Smith from Robert Sweets The

Peruvian lily or parrot flower, Alstroemeria pulchella. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cooke after Thomas Shotter Boys from Conrad Loddiges Botanical Cabinet, Hackney, 1825

Calceolaria corymbosa. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cooke after Thomas Shotter Boys from Conrad Loddiges Botanical Cabinet, Hackney, 1825

Alstroemeria pulchra and Alstroemeria pallida
Countryside butterfly, Alstroemeria pulchra (Alstroemeria tricolor) 1 and Lirio de Cordillera, Alstroemeria pallida 2. Chile

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