Meets Gallery

Kiss of the Oceans - Atlantic meets Pacific - Panama Canal

The Kiss of the Oceans - The Atlantic meets the Pacific due to the construction of The Panama Canal - A lovely allegorical card relating to this phenomenal engineering project, also bearing full statistics including length, width and cost of the project. Likely to date from the opening of the canal in 1914. Date: circa 1914

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Vasco da Gama in India

Portuguese Colonial History Series - Vasco da Gama has an audience with The King of Calicut (Kozhikode), the Samudiri (Zamorin) in May 1498. The navigator was received with traditional hospitality, including a grand procession of at least 3, 000 armed Nairs, but an interview with the Zamorin failed to produce any concrete trade results. Date: 1498

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

English tourists and Scot in tartan jacket sailing

English tourists and Scot in tartan jacket sailing on Loch Leven in the Scottish highlands. View of Loch Leven Castle in the background. Doctor Prosody, parading on Lochleven, is challenged to name his chief. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn and engraved by Charles Williams from William Combe's The Tour of Doctor Prosody, in search of the Antique and the Picturesque, through Scotland, the Hebrides, the Orkney and Shetland Isles, Matthew Illy, London, 1821

© Florilegius