Croton Collection

The Croton Flour Mills of George V. Hecker & Co. - New York
The Croton Flour Mills of George V. Hecker & Co. - 199, 201 and 203 Cherry Street, New York, USA. The old windmill of 1776 and the modern mill of 1876. Date: circa 1890

Common jasmine, Jasminum officinale, Linn. Sp. plant 9. Jasmin commun. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Jean Victor Dupin junior from Pierre Joseph Buchoz Herbier Artificial

Dyers croton, Chrozophora tinctoria, and water forget-me-not, Myosotis scorpioides. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt

Codiaeum hybrid, le Tzar, Codiaeum variegatum. Drawn and chromolithographed by Pieter de Pannemaeker from Jean Lindens l Illustration Horticole, Brussels, 1888

Garden croton, Codiaeum variegatum (Codiaeum vanoosterzeei). Chromolithograph by Pieter de Pannemaeker from Jean Lindens l Illustration Horticole, Brussels, 1883

Variegated croton, Codiaeum variegatum (Codiaeum magnificum). Chromolithograph by P. de Pannemaeker from Jean Lindens l Illustration Horticole, Brussels, 1882

Chinese lamp on a chair stand and wax candles, Qing Dynasty
Chinese lamp on a chair stand and wax candles made of tallow from the tallow tree, Triadica sebifera, Qing Dynasty. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon

Roughbark lignum-vitae and cascarilla
Roughbark lignum-vitae, Guaiacum officinale 1, seedpods a, (endangered), and cascarilla, Croton eluteria 2, bark b. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur

Purging croton, jamalgota or jepal, Croton tiglium. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants, London

Sweetwood bark or sweet bark, Croton eluteria. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants, London, 1880

Cascarilla, Croton eluteria. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse, (Handbook of all medical-pharmaceutical plants)

Purging croton, Croton tiglium. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse

Croton Dam, Westchester County, New York State, USA
Croton-on-Hudson, view from the top of the Croton Dam, Westchester County, New York State, USA. Date: circa 1908

Croton aqueduct at Yonkers
Old Croton aqueduct at Yonkers. The aqueduct was built 1837-42 to supply water to reservoirs in Manhatten, New York and remained in service until 1955. Date: 1845

Croton aqueduct title page
Title page of Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct by F B Tower of the Engineer Department, Wiley and Putnam, New York and London, 1845 Date: 1845

Croton aqueduct bridge
Old Croton aqueduct bridge. The aqueduct was built 1837-42 to supply water to reservoirs in Manhattan, New York and remained in service until 1955. Date: 1845

Croton aqueduct bridge for roadway
Old Croton aqueduct bridge for roadway. The aqueduct was built 1837-42 to supply water to reservoirs in Manhattan, New York and remained in service until 1955. Date: 1845

Section through Croton aqueduct
Section through old Croton aqueduct. The aqueduct was built 1837-42 to supply water to reservoirs in Manhattan, New York and remained in service until 1955. Date: 1845

Croton aqueduct at Sing Sing
Old Croton aqueduct at Sing Sing. The aqueduct was built 1837-42 to supply water to reservoirs in Manhattan, New York and remained in service until 1955. Date: 1845

View above Croton Dam. The Croton aqueduct was built 1837-42 to supply water to reservoirs in Manhatten, New York and remained in service until 1955. Date: 1845

Angiosperm flower in amber
A flower trapped and preserved in Dominican amber. This specimen dates from the Lower Miocene period about 20 million years old

Croton compressus
Finished watercolour by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771. Illustration annotated Croton reticulatum

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