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A photograph from south end of cliff overlooking indigenous fields prepared for corn. This image is part of a panorama.

Fig on Dracaena, Musa ensete and banana in back. [Shantz travel journal, May 30, 1920]

Fig on forest tree - bank and banana in back. Musa ensete at left. [Shantz travel journal, May 30, 1920]

A fig tree showing where the bark has been removed to make bark cloth. The trees are not killed by this process - since the inner layer is apparently not taken. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 17, 1920]

Fig, Dracaena, grassland, toward Meru. [Shantz travel journal, May 30, 1920]

Fig, Dracaena, grassland, toward Meru. [Shantz travel journal, May 30, 1920]

Financial transaction document from the Maritime Customs Office of the Port of Veracruz, dated January 17, 1829. The administrator of the port, Jose Maria Fernandez acknowledges having received from Pedro Fronemo the sum of $2,918 pesos. The amount…

A photograph of a fine high grass and tree savanna.

A photograph of Deiroi showing fine tree growth with bamboo along the stream.

Fire damaged tamarisk (salt cedar) trees obscure the view of the Rio Grande.

A photograph of the rain forest, showing buphane disticha, the fire lily.

A photograph of firm tall grass (Aristida or Stipa) that forms the bulk of the grass cover here.

Picture of Berta Mackenzie, twelve years old, at first communion in Pecs, Hungary. The original village was destroyed during WWII.

First flag flown on USS Arizona, after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The flying of the flag over the sunken Arizona began on March 7, 1950.