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51. Cook at Meat Hunters Camp, Black Beach Floreana Island, 1905

52. Portrait of Manuel J. Cobos in 1878

53. View of the Worker's Houses, Hacienda El Progreso in 1905

54. Project Meeting with Town Elders, El Progreso, 2017

55. Interior View of Manuel J. Cobos' Hacienda House, in 2018

56. Interior Plan of the Government House in 1904

57. The village of Progreso is 300 meters above sea-level on Isla San Cristóbal. In the mid-1920s it had about 300 inhabitants.

58. Manuel J. Cobos' Hacienda House, Hacienda El Progreso in 1888

59. Viaje Presidencial, Población de San Cristóbal (Chatham)

60. Manuel J. Cobos' Hacienda House, Hacienda El Progreso in 1888

61. Chatham Island Locals c. 1898

62. The schooner Manuel J. Cobos named after Progreso's founder, moored along the jetty in Wreck Bay.

63. The store in Progreso belonged to Alvarado and Cobos. Practically all workers on the island received their wages from the same gentlemen.

64. One Sucre Monetary Note Issued by Hacienda El Progreso in 1905

65. View of the Worker's Houses, Hacienda El Progreso in 1888

66. Manuel A. Cobos welcomes the Albemarle expedition to Galápagos. He strongly urges them to make San Cristóbal their terminal station.

67. Coral Sand Flat Back of Landing Beach, Wreck Bay Chatham Island

68. El Rondel Traffic Circle Entrance to El Progreso, in 2012

69. El Progreso Plantation of Rogerio Alvarado, San Cristóbal, Galápagos

70. Monetary Note and Coins Issued by Hacienda El Progreso in 1905

71. When Albemarle sailed back to Panamá, Harry Randall moved in with Manuel A. Cobos. Nearly every day he went riding with his host.

72. The Wreck Bay pier in 1938

73. Chatham Island c. 1930s

74. Interior Plan of the Hacienda House in 1904

75. Rogerio Alvarado was married to Josefina, Manuel A. Cobos' older sister. He lived most of the time in Guayaquil.

76. View of Worker's House, Hacienda El Progreso in 1888

77. El Progreso in 1947

78. 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.

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

80. When Jens Aschehoug and Per Bang visited Galápagos in 1922, the steam-powered sugar factory was in full operation, but decay had set in.

81. Galapagos. Plantation. Ethnology, 1888. Chatham Isd.

82. 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.

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

84. Map of Zones of Special Use (ZUEs) in the Galápagos Islands

85. Hacienda El Progreso's Bodega at Puerto Chico in 1905

86. 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.

87. Local Student Tour Group, El Progreso, 2014

88. Chatham Island c. 1930s

89. Gálapagos Academic Institute of Arts and Sciences and Gálapagos Science Center, Playa Mann, in 2012

90. Map of Land Use in the Zone of Special Use (ZUE) in San Cristóbal Island

91. The Handling of the Hacienda Prisoners in 1905

92. 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.

93. Central Park and Church in El Progreso, in 2014

94. 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.

95. WWII Cannon on Cañón Beach, Puerto Baquerizo Moreno, 2016

96. Hacienda El Progreso, Main Street in 1905

97. Sea Lions on Playa Mann and Cruise Ships in Wreck Bay, 2012

98. Carpintero Midden Profile

99. Accounting Office and Armchair inside the Hacienda House

100. 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.