During World War II, Cobos worked on Base Baltra. Soon after the birth of her sixth child, Karin Guldberg left Cobos and in 1952 moved into her cattle ranch "Pampa Mia." Eventually the ranch was relocated at 500 m, at the time the highest settlement on the island.
Subjects:
Hacienda El Progreso; Manuel J. Cobos
Subjects Facet:
Galapagos Islands; San Cristóbal Island (Galapagos Islands);
Creator:
Dr. Peter W. Stahl
Publisher:
University of Victoria Libraries
Contributors:
Dr. Peter Stahl
Date:
1952
Date searchable:
1952
Date searchable:
1952
Genre:
Photographic Print; Digital image
Genre Facet:
Photographic Print; Digital image
Format:
image
Rights:
Copyright
Location(s):
El Progreso (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands
Location(s) Facet:
El Progreso (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands
Date Digitized:
2019
Commentary:
Photo courtesy of Karin Guldberg in Hoff, S. (1985) Drommen om Galapagos, Oslo: Grodahl & Son; 1927 Campo Noruego;
In 1900, Antonio Gil established the coastal town of Puerto Villamil and the nearby highland settlement of Santo Tomás de Berlanga on Isabela Island in order to grow agricultural products and export hides of feral cattle, mined lime and volcanic sulfur, and rendered turtle oil.
Subjects:
Hacienda El Progreso
Subjects Facet:
Galapagos Islands; Isabela Island (Galapagos Islands); Plants; Landscapes; Agricultural lands
Creator:
Dr. Peter W. Stahl
Publisher:
University of Victoria Libraries
Contributors:
Dr. Peter Stahl
Date:
2016
Date searchable:
2016
Date searchable:
2016-8-5
Genre:
Digital image
Genre Facet:
Digital image
Format:
image
Identifier:
IMGP3088
Rights:
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Location(s):
El Progreso, (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands
Location(s) Facet:
El Progreso, (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands
A green glass shoulder seal marked “RICHARD & MULLER/NEUFCHATEL” with a Swiss cross in the centre of the seal may have originally been part of a brandy/cognac bottle; however, the company also were exporters of absinthe.
Subjects:
Hacienda El Progreso
Subjects Facet:
San Cristóbal Island (Galapagos Islands); Excavations (Archaeology)--Ecuador; Glassware; Wine bottles
Creator:
Dr. Peter W. Stahl
Publisher:
University of Victoria Libraries
Contributors:
Dr. Peter Stahl
Date:
2014
Date searchable:
2014
Date searchable:
2014
Genre:
Digital image
Genre Facet:
Digital image
Format:
image
Rights:
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Location(s):
El Progreso, (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands;-0.9079084740482873, -89.55796369211261
Location(s) Facet:
El Progreso, (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands;-0.9079084740482873, -89.55796369211261
The gravel quarry in Puerto Baquerizo lies directly to thenortheast of the airport. The quarried volcanic rock is used for most construction products, and especially in the completion of the modern paved road through the island, completed in 2015. The quarry has been substantially reduced in size since this photo was taken in 2012.
Subjects:
Hacienda El Progreso; Manuel J. Cobos
Subjects Facet:
Galapagos Islands; San Cristóbal Island (Galapagos Islands); Transportation; Roads
A large basin formed by slightly depressed land is located directly to the north of the sugar processing area. The area can become inundated during heavy rains, and may have been connected to the sugar processing area by an earthen canal, portions of which are still visible under the thick vegetation.
Subjects:
Hacienda El Progreso; ingenio
Subjects Facet:
San Cristóbal Island (Galapagos Islands); cisterns; Sugar Factories; Canals
Creator:
Dr. Peter W. Stahl
Publisher:
University of Victoria Libraries
Contributors:
Dr. Peter Stahl
Date:
2017
Date searchable:
2017
Date searchable:
2017-7-20
Genre:
Digital image
Genre Facet:
Digital image
Format:
image
Rights:
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Location(s):
El Progreso, (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands
Location(s) Facet:
El Progreso, (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands
This image affords a rare view of the entire sugar mill infrastructure shortly after Cobos' death. The view is toward the west from the upper floor of the Hacienda House. The smokestack is barely visible against the horizon toward the middle of the frame. It appears in Las Islas Encantada o el Archipielago de Colon (Bognoly and Epinoza 1905:137).
Subjects:
Hacienda El Progreso; Manuel J. Cobos
Subjects Facet:
Galapagos Islands; San Cristóbal Island (Galapagos Islands); Sugar Factories;
Creator:
Dr. Peter W. Stahl
Publisher:
University of Victoria Libraries
Contributors:
Dr. Peter Stahl
Date:
1905
Date searchable:
1905
Date searchable:
1905
Genre:
Photographic Print; Digital image
Genre Facet:
Photographic Print; Digital image
Format:
image
Rights:
Copyright Undetermined
Location(s):
El Progreso (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands
Location(s) Facet:
El Progreso (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands
Date Digitized:
2019
Commentary:
Bognoly, J. and Espinosa J. (1905) Las Islas Encantada o el Archipielago de Colon. Comercio:Guayaqil, p.137
The boilers, one of the two preserved examples which is located to the rear at right, were combined with supporting structures that housed externally fed combustion chambers. Variously referred to as dutch ovens or fire boxes they were large enough to completely combust bagasse fuel.
Subjects:
Hacienda El Progreso; ingenio
Subjects Facet:
San Cristóbal Island (Galapagos Islands); Sugar Factories; Steam-boilers
Creator:
Dr. Peter W. Stahl
Publisher:
University of Victoria Libraries
Contributors:
Dr. Peter Stahl
Date:
2017
Date searchable:
2017
Date searchable:
2017-7-20
Genre:
Digital image
Genre Facet:
Digital image
Format:
image
Identifier:
33
Rights:
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Location(s):
El Progreso, (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands
Location(s) Facet:
El Progreso, (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands
This intact boiler, one of the two preserved examples, provided the necessary steam required to operate the press engine and other processing equipment. The holes on the end plates suggest that the steam was supplied by a system of horizontal return tubular (HRT) fire tube boilers. Each opening was connected by a horizontal tube to its counterpart on the opposite end. Heat was conducted from the externally-fired dutch oven through each tube via a flue on the back end of the combustion chamber. The multiple tubes created a large surface area for heating the surrounding water within the sealed boiler. At least 114 openings can be counted on one intact boiler end. Deerr (1911:404) calculated that a seven foot diameter boiler with 120 tubes can supply 1800 ft² of heating surface.
Subjects:
Hacienda El Progreso; ingenio
Subjects Facet:
San Cristóbal Island (Galapagos Islands); Sugar Factories; Steam-boilers
Creator:
Dr. Peter W. Stahl
Publisher:
University of Victoria Libraries
Contributors:
Dr. Peter Stahl
Date:
2014
Date searchable:
2014
Date searchable:
2014-7-10
Genre:
Digital image
Genre Facet:
Digital image
Format:
image
Identifier:
12
Rights:
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Location(s):
El Progreso, (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands
Location(s) Facet:
El Progreso, (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands
"Pampa Mia is a little concrete house covered with metal roofing sheets. It is divided into a living room, two bedrooms and a kitchen. Around the house hibiscus and bougainvillea are protected from the chickens and cattle by means of a wire fence....in the Spring of 1985 ... the grass on the pampas was withered and brown. Only hardy guava bushes with their green leaves interrupted the monotonous brown. Snefrid did not know how many head of cattle were still alive. They were scattered over a wide area looking for food and water, making accurate counting impossible. Almost every day they found animals that had recently perished. Maybe 800-900 remained. The previous year they had 1600 animals."
Subjects:
Hacienda El Progreso; Manuel J. Cobos
Subjects Facet:
Galapagos Islands; San Cristóbal Island (Galapagos Islands);
Creator:
Dr. Peter W. Stahl
Publisher:
University of Victoria Libraries
Contributors:
Dr. Peter Stahl
Date:
1983
Date searchable:
1983
Date searchable:
1983
Genre:
Photographic Print; Digital image
Genre Facet:
Photographic Print; Digital image
Format:
image
Rights:
Copyright
Location(s):
El Progreso (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands
Location(s) Facet:
El Progreso (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands
Date Digitized:
2019
Commentary:
Photo courtesy of Kristian Hosar in Hoff, S. (1985) Drommen om Galapagos, Oslo: Grodahl & Son; 1927 Campo Noruego;
As early as 1832, José Villamil journeyed to the newly christened Archipiélago del Ecuador and its capital Floreana in order to convert the islands into a progressive province symbolically named Asilo de la Paz, with colonies on Santiago, Santa Cruz, and San Cristóbal. Capt. Nicholas Lawson, a Jamaican who in 1830 had explored the islands, may have introduced goats, sheep, and pigs to Floreana and possibly other islands before Villamil’s arrival in 1832. He introduced cattle, horses, and possibly sheep into various islands, including San Cristóbal, Santa Cruz, Santiago, Isabela, and Pinta, in order to take advantage of their natural pastures.
Subjects:
Hacienda El Progreso
Subjects Facet:
Galapagos Islands; Santa Cruz Island (Galapagos Islands); Plants; Landscapes; Agricultural lands
Creator:
Dr. Peter W. Stahl
Publisher:
University of Victoria Libraries
Contributors:
Dr. Peter Stahl
Date:
2016
Date searchable:
2016
Date searchable:
2016-8-3
Genre:
Digital image
Genre Facet:
Digital image
Format:
image
Identifier:
IMGP3027
Rights:
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Location(s):
El Progreso, (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands
Location(s) Facet:
El Progreso, (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands
The central sugar mill processing area lies directly to the west and down-slope from the Hacienda House. Historic mill infrastructure that could not be relocated or scavenged, remains today in various states of preservation. The image here is a three-dimensional LiDAR point cloud representing archaeological artifacts, measured using a FARO Focus 3D terrestrial laser scanner. LiDAR points have been colourized using digital photos of the features and surrounding area collected at the time of the LiDAR scans. Points relating to trees and other overlying vegetation have been removed to more clearly visualize the archaeological artifacts of interest. The animated walk-through shows the central mill area surrounded on either end by preserved HRT boilers. The walk-through circles around the central flue and boiler heating areas which lie directly across from the water retention ponds.
Subjects:
Hacienda El Progreso; Sugar Mill; San Cristóbal Island (Galapagos Islands); sugar factories;
Right: Digital Terrain Model (DTM) of the Central Mill Area built using LiDAR Returns Classified as Ground and Archaeological Artifacts. Red lines represent transect lines used to draw each of the cross section panels viewed NNW. Elevation is recorded in Meters Above Sea Level (MASL). 1. Smoke Stack Base; 2. Furnace Area; 3. Boiler; 4. Boiler; 5. Small Stone-lined Water Cistern; 6. Deep Stone-lined Water Cistern; 7; Large Stone-lined Water Cistern; 8. Earthen Canal.
Subjects Facet:
Galapagos Islands; San Cristóbal Island (Galapagos Islands); Sugar Factories; Aerial Photography in Industrial Archaeology
The quantity of preserved alcohol bottles in the midden assemblage suggest that beer and/or hard liquor were more popular than wine on the hacienda. However, bottles in a remote place like Hacienda El Progreso were likely reused many times before being discarded.
Subjects:
Hacienda El Progreso
Subjects Facet:
San Cristóbal Island (Galapagos Islands); Excavations (Archaeology)--Ecuador; Glassware; Wine bottles
Creator:
Dr. Peter W. Stahl
Publisher:
University of Victoria Libraries
Contributors:
Dr. Peter Stahl
Date:
2015
Date searchable:
2015
Date searchable:
2015
Genre:
Digital image
Genre Facet:
Digital image
Format:
image
Rights:
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Location(s):
El Progreso, (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands;-0.9079084740482873, -89.55796369211261
Location(s) Facet:
El Progreso, (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands;-0.9079084740482873, -89.55796369211261
The first known introduction of goats to the islands may have occurred as early as AD 1693. Currently naturalized on three islands and eradicated on another 11, goats are a highly problematic invasive. These feral goats were photographed in 2014 in the highlands above Hacienda La Tranquila, despite declarations that no wild goats were to be found on San Cristóbal.
Subjects:
Hacienda El Progreso; Manuel J. Cobos
Subjects Facet:
Galapagos Islands; San Cristóbal Island (Galapagos Islands); Introduced Organisms; Pasture Animals; Goats
Historic Photo (p.85 Ralph Stock (1921) Cruise of the Dream Ship London: W. Heinemann) of the worker's village of El Progreso in 1919, with Cerro San Joaquin in the upper left and views of vast pasturage in the background. The Repeat photographs were made in 2015 at the intersection of the main road with the road leading to Loma Consuelo.
Subjects:
Hacienda El Progreso; Manuel J. Cobos
Subjects Facet:
San Cristóbal Island (Galapagos Islands); Landscapes; Villages; Agricultural lands
Creator:
Dr. Peter W. Stahl
Publisher:
University of Victoria Libraries
Contributors:
Tanya Taggert-Hodge; Dr. Peter W. Stahl
Date:
2015
Date searchable:
2015
Date searchable:
2015-07-3
Genre:
Photographic print; Digital image
Genre Facet:
Photographic print; Digital image
Format:
image
Identifier:
Repeat Photo #1692-1699
Rights:
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Location(s):
El Progreso, (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands;-0.9073, -89.557917
Location(s) Facet:
El Progreso, (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands;-0.9073, -89.557917
Discarded gun cartridge shells clearly date the midden associations. They include a “Nitro Club”12-gauge shot shell (1891-1911), a Winchester 30-30 cartridge (>1895), and a Peters 12-gauge shot shell made after 1887.
Subjects:
Hacienda El Progreso
Subjects Facet:
San Cristóbal Island (Galapagos Islands); Excavations (Archaeology)--Ecuador; Cartridges (ammunition)
Creator:
Dr. Peter W. Stahl
Publisher:
University of Victoria Libraries
Contributors:
Dr. Peter Stahl
Date:
2016
Date searchable:
2016
Date searchable:
2016
Genre:
Digital image
Genre Facet:
Digital image
Format:
image
Rights:
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Location(s):
El Progreso, (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands;-0.9079084740482873, -89.55796369211261
Location(s) Facet:
El Progreso, (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands;-0.9079084740482873, -89.55796369211261
Historic Photo (Rollo Beck G71, Rollo and Ida Beck Collection, Box 40 MSS 036 California Academy of Sciences) of what appears to be the hacienda kitchen in the foreground with the worker's village of El Progreso the background, in 1905. The Repeat photographs were made in 2015 past the intersection and slightly uphill on the road leading to Loma del Consuelo.
Subjects:
Hacienda El Progreso; Manuel J. Cobos
Subjects Facet:
San Cristóbal Island (Galapagos Islands); Landscapes; Villages; Food preparation
Creator:
Dr. Peter W. Stahl
Publisher:
University of Victoria Libraries
Contributors:
Tanya Taggert-Hodge; Dr. Peter W. Stahl
Date:
2015
Date searchable:
2015
Date searchable:
2015-07-3
Genre:
Photographic print; Digital image
Genre Facet:
Photographic print; Digital image
Format:
image
Identifier:
Repeat Photo #1707-1713
Rights:
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Location(s):
El Progreso, (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands;-0.907267, -89.557867
Location(s) Facet:
El Progreso, (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands;-0.907267, -89.557867
A large in-ground water retention basin background), measuring approximately 16x9 m and constructed of thick volcanic rock and marine sand mortar walls over 1 m wide and 2 to 3 m high, dominates the northern end of the mill area. An opening at the bottom of the deepest corner of the basin transferred water into a smaller and deeper adjoining water reservoir (foreground) with a metal tube drain imbedded in its west wall. The smaller reservoir is located close to the stone wall with a tunneled flue connected to the smokestack.
Subjects:
Hacienda El Progreso; ingenio
Subjects Facet:
San Cristóbal Island (Galapagos Islands); sugar factories; cisterns
Creator:
Dr. Peter W. Stahl
Publisher:
University of Victoria Libraries
Contributors:
Dr. Peter Stahl
Date:
2014
Date searchable:
2014
Date searchable:
2014-7-10
Genre:
Digital image
Genre Facet:
Digital image
Format:
image
Identifier:
Fig. 4.7
Rights:
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Location(s):
El Progreso, (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands
Location(s) Facet:
El Progreso, (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands
Today, preserved equipment from the sugar mill survives as decorations. Top, left: Spur Wheel and Pinion Decorating the Entrance to El Ceibo. Top, right Press Wheels and Rollers Decorating the middle of the Roundabout at El Rondel. Bottom, George L. Squier Cane Press Displayed at the Entrance to a Hotel in Puerto Baquerizo Moreno.
Subjects:
Hacienda El Progreso; ingenio
Subjects Facet:
San Cristóbal Island (Galapagos Islands); Sugar Factories; Sugar Machinery
Creator:
Dr. Peter W. Stahl
Publisher:
University of Victoria Libraries
Contributors:
Dr. Peter Stahl
Date:
2015
Date searchable:
2015
Date searchable:
2015-7-20
Genre:
Digital image
Genre Facet:
Digital image
Format:
image
Identifier:
Fig. 4.12
Rights:
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Location(s):
El Progreso, (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands
Location(s) Facet:
El Progreso, (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands