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One Sucre Monetary Note Issued by Hacienda El Progreso in 1905
Holloway gout ointment jar
View of the Worker's Houses, Hacienda El Progreso in 1888
Manuel A. Cobos welcomes the Albemarle expedition to Galápagos. He strongly urges them to make San Cristóbal their terminal station.
Lower Elevation Coastal Vegetation San Cristóbal 2014
El Rondel Traffic Circle Entrance to El Progreso,  in 2012
Monetary Note and Coins Issued by Hacienda El Progreso in 1905
When Albemarle sailed back to Panamá, Harry Randall moved in with Manuel A. Cobos. Nearly every day he went riding with his host.
The Wreck Bay pier in 1938
Shell Buttons
Rogerio Alvarado was married to Josefina, Manuel A. Cobos' older sister. He lived most of the time in Guayaquil.
Lined and Banded Earthenware Fragments
View Southwest from El Junco 2016
View of Worker's House, Hacienda El Progreso in 1888
Fragments of a colorless glass demijohn
Paul Bruun was captain of the Manuel J. Cobos for about 18 months before he started trading with the Norge. The island community was dependent on the old schooner to obtain provisions from the continent. Delays and fuel shortages proved fatal for Bruun, her former skipper. When this photo was taken in 1934, the schooner had been re-named San Cristóbal.
Concentrations of arboreal vs grass phytoliths and DP ratio signals
A selection of alcohol bottle finishes
Medicine Jar from the Mill Area
Manuel J. Cobos poses with Workers, Hacienda El Progreso in 1888
When Jens Aschehoug and Per Bang visited Galápagos in 1922, the steam-powered sugar factory was in full operation, but decay had set in.
Shell Button
Fancy Button
Manuel A. Cobos (4th from left) invites the Floreana party for sight-seeing at the sugar factory. Cobos wears a broad-rimmed hat, riding breeches and a revolver holster across his chest.
Highland Vegetation on San Cristóbal 2014
Colorless condiment bottle and a fragment of a tumbler
View North from El Junco 2016
Doll’s head, legs and arm
Manuel J. Cobos poses with Workers, Hacienda El Progreso in 1888
Barluet & Cie./Creil & Montereau White Earthenware Fragment
Map of Zones of Special Use (ZUEs) in the Galápagos Islands
Hacienda El Progreso's Bodega at Puerto Chico in 1905
The local matazarno tree was excellent for house construction, but trunks of this size are not to be found in Galápagos. Photo is probably of a mainland tree.
Local Student Tour Group, El Progreso, 2014
White Earthenware Plate Fragment with Gien Inscription
White Earthenware Plate Fragment with Johnson Brothers  Inscription
Gálapagos Academic Institute of Arts and Sciences and Gálapagos Science Center, Playa Mann,  in 2012
Map of Land Use in the Zone of Special Use (ZUE) in San Cristóbal Island
The Handling of the Hacienda Prisoners in 1905
The view looking towards Wreck Bay shows the rails leading to the pier, and what was for a long time the archipelago's only lighthouse. “Johnson from London” lived in the shack next to the light.
Left: Manuel A. Cobos and Dagfinn on horseback, Progresso. Right: Karin, Tony, Dagfinn and Manuel Cobos. The photograph was taken in 1933 and was sent to friends Ruth and Alf Ødegård who, at that time, were back in Norway. The picture does not reveal anything about the great finanical crash which had already ruined both Manuel and his brother-in-law, Rogerio Alvarado.
WWII Cannon on Cañón Beach, Puerto Baquerizo Moreno, 2016
Hacienda El Progreso, Main Street in 1905
Dr. H.F. Peery’s Dead Shot Vermifuge Bottle
Sea Lions on Playa Mann and Cruise Ships in Wreck Bay, 2012
In-situ White Earthenware Plate Fragment with Opaque de Sarreguemines  Inscription
Carpintero Midden Profile
Accounting Office and Armchair inside the Hacienda House
Bacalao, coffee, sugar, yucca flour, corn and cattle were the most important export products on San Cristóbal. Here, the Manuel J. Cobos is loaded with sacks from the trolleys on the long pier at Wreck Bay.
The Government House on Hacienda El Progreso in 1905
Locally Harvested Invasive Cedar at the El Progreso Carpentry, 2016
Map of Zone of Special Use (ZUE) in San Cristóbal Island
Great class distinction, racial prejudice, language problems and religious barriers made communication between Norwegians and local residents difficult in San Cristóbal. Upon their arrival in Galápagos, the Norwegian colonists were quite unprepared for these problems.
Stoneware Ink Bottle Embossed Adrien Maurin Paris
Beer Shipment Loaded onto Trucks, Commercial Dock, Wreck Bay
Digital Terrain Model of the Central Mill Area Using LiDAR Returns
The Cemetery at Puerto Chico in 1905
Karin and Manuel Cobos with two-year old Dagfinn, Wreck Bay, 1932.
The romantic Karin revealed herself also as a woman with great willpower. In 1945 she was overwhelmed with marital problems, obligations as a mother of six, and financial difficulties. She and Manuel separated. With the help of the children and their father, she established her own cattle ranch. In 1952 she moved into the first “Pampa Mia” near Progreso.
Open Grazing Land, Santo Tomás, Isabela, 2016
A Glass Shoulder Seal Marked “RICHARD & MULLER/NEUFCHATEL”
Gravel Quarry, Puerto Baquerizo Moreno, in 2012
Earthen Canal Connected to Large Water Cistern 2017
Inkwell Recovered from the Carpintero Midden
The Hacienda Sugar Mill in 1905
Dutch Oven or Fire Box and Boiler 2017
HRT Fire Tube Boiler 2017
1983 was an extremely wet El Niño year, and two years later Galápagos experienced one of the worst droughts in memory. But Snefrid (82) and Karin (77) on “Pampa Mia” hold their own for they know that the pendulum will soon swing back to normal.
Open Grazing Land, Santa Rosa, Santa Cruz, 2016
Digital Terrain Model of the Central Mill with Cross Section Panels Using LiDAR Returns
Glass Bottle Necks
Feral Goats above Hacienda La Tranquila, La Soledad, San Cristóbal, in 2014
The Peons Quarters 1919 Repeat Photo (8) 2015
Gun Cartridge Shells
No information  1905 Repeat Photo (7) 2015
Water Cisterns
Cane Press, Spur Wheels and Pinions as Decoration 2015
A Possible Comb Fragment