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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.

Galapagos. Plantation. Ethnology, 1888. Chatham Isd.

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.

Manuel J. Cobos poses with Workers, Hacienda El Progreso in 1888

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.

Chatham Island c. 1930s

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.

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