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1. Complete Decauville Rail System wheel, Puerto Baquerizo Moreno, 2015

Description:
Two surviving Decauville Rail System wheels, embossed with “Decauville Aine Petit-Bourg IS80,” and found near the ingenio site, are today in the collection of a hotel in Puerto Baquerizo Moreno. Traction-powered rail systems designed for transporting harvested intact cane stalks from the fields employed long platform trucks with eight wheels on 20 inch gauge tracks of 14 lb rails with fixed sleepers. Each cart with iron baskets held up to 1300 lbs and was pulled by oxen tethered with long yolks on each side of the track.
Subjects:
Hacienda El Progreso; ingenio
Subjects Facet:
San Cristóbal Island (Galapagos Islands); Sugar Factories; Sugar Machinery; Transportation
Creator:
Dr. Peter W. Stahl
Publisher:
University of Victoria Libraries
Contributors:
Dr. Peter Stahl
Date:
2015
Date searchable:
2015
Date searchable:
2015-7-14
Genre:
Digital image
Genre Facet:
Digital image
Format:
image
Identifier:
Fig. 4.15
Rights:
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Location(s):
El Progreso, (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands
Location(s) Facet:
El Progreso, (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands
Date Digitized:
2015

2. Modern Mural with Hacienda Ingenio in Background

Description:
This is another portion of the modern mural found on the wall of a local restaurant directly behind the town football stadium showing a stylized version of the hacienda sugar factory.
Subjects:
Hacienda El Progreso; ingenio
Subjects Facet:
San Cristóbal Island (Galapagos Islands); sugar factories;
Creator:
Dr. Peter W. Stahl
Publisher:
University of Victoria Libraries
Contributors:
Dr. Peter Stahl
Date:
2016
Date searchable:
2016
Date searchable:
2016-7-20
Genre:
Digital image
Genre Facet:
Digital image
Format:
image
Identifier:
IMGP3001
Rights:
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Location(s):
El Progreso, (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands
Location(s) Facet:
El Progreso, (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands
Date Digitized:
2016

3. Cobble Pavement Excavated on the East Side of the Mill Area 2016

Description:
Shallow excavations below the historic house site, directly to the east of the sugar mill area revealed the beginnings of a cobble pavement. Excavations in the area were extended during 2016.
Subjects:
Hacienda El Progreso; ingenio
Subjects Facet:
San Cristóbal Island (Galapagos Islands); Sugar Factories; Transportation
Creator:
Dr. Peter W. Stahl
Publisher:
University of Victoria Libraries
Contributors:
Dr. Peter Stahl
Date:
2016
Date searchable:
2016
Date searchable:
2016-8-10
Genre:
Digital image
Genre Facet:
Digital image
Format:
image
Identifier:
IMGP3127
Rights:
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Location(s):
El Progreso, (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands
Location(s) Facet:
El Progreso, (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands
Date Digitized:
2016

4. Triple Effect Vacuum Evaporator, Hacienda El Progreso

Description:
This photograph was taken by Capt. Rollo Beck in 1905. It is of a triple effect vacuum evaporator manufactured by McOnie Harvey & Co., Ltd., Glasgow. Sugar was concentrated by passing cane liquor through three vessels, each with an increasingly higher vacuum and lower temperature in order to achieve evaporation. Not only did the evaporator reduce the amount of required fuel through steam re-circulation and evaporation at lower temperatures, but it also protected the sugar product from destruction at higher temperatures.
Subjects:
Hacienda El Progreso;
Subjects Facet:
Galapagos Islands; San Cristóbal Island (Galapagos Islands); Sugar Factories; Sugar Machinery
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
Location(s):
El Progreso (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands
Location(s) Facet:
El Progreso (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands
Date Digitized:
2019
Commentary:
California Academy of Sciences. CAS G71.5 , Rollo and Ida Beck Collection, Box 40, MSS.036

5. Modern Mural with Cobos on Horseback Overlooking the Hacienda Water System

Description:
Water was transported from interior highland sources to the processing plant in an elaborate and lengthy system of canals, aqueducts, conduits, and pipes. This modern mural is found on the wall of a local restaurant directly behind the town football stadium showing Cobos on horseback with cisterns, pipes and El Junco in the background.
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:
2016
Date searchable:
2016
Date searchable:
2016-7-20
Genre:
Digital image
Genre Facet:
Digital image
Format:
image
Identifier:
IMGP2997
Rights:
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Location(s):
El Progreso, (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands
Location(s) Facet:
El Progreso, (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands
Date Digitized:
2016

6. Structure with Tunnel Opening 2014

Description:
The stub of a volcanic stone and mortar structure lies directly across and down slope from the adjoined basins. On its east side is a tunnel opening that is connected to the base of the smoke stack. Conceivably, water from the cisterns was channeled toward boilers heated above the structure with the underground tunnel.
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:
2014
Date searchable:
2014
Date searchable:
2014-7-14
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
Date Digitized:
2014

7. Smoke Stack Base 2016

Description:
The largest preserved feature is an approximately 3.5 m² by 4 m high structure which may have been part of the tall central building that dominated the historic ingenio. This structure may have been vented by the chimney in the historic photo. Constructed of finished volcanic rock and mortar, it has an arched opening on its western side which leads into a deep pit which likely functioned as the combustion chamber.
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:
2016
Date searchable:
2016
Date searchable:
2016-8-14
Genre:
Digital image
Genre Facet:
Digital image
Format:
image
Identifier:
Fig. 4.9
Rights:
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Location(s):
El Progreso, (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands
Location(s) Facet:
El Progreso, (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands
Date Digitized:
2016

8. External Combustion Chamber of Fire Box with Door 2018

Description:
Externally fed combustion chamber of a fire box supporting structure for a boiler. Top: Boiler support structure with combustion chamber. Bottom: Fire box door embossed with Walsh & Weidner Boiler Co. Chattanooga Tenn USA. This company, formed in 1889 to produce pressure vessels and both fire and water tube boilers, was subsequently consolidated as Hedges, Walsh, Weidner Co. in 1928.
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:
2018
Date searchable:
2018
Date searchable:
2018-7-20
Genre:
Digital image
Genre Facet:
Digital image
Format:
image
Identifier:
Fig. 4.11
Rights:
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Location(s):
El Progreso, (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands
Location(s) Facet:
El Progreso, (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands
Date Digitized:
2018

9. Small Stone Water Cistern

Description:
This smaller stone water cistern lies near the modern road entrance to the mill or trapiche area of the Hacienda El Progreso sugar mill.
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:
21
Rights:
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Location(s):
El Progreso, (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands
Location(s) Facet:
El Progreso, (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands
Date Digitized:
2014

10. Like the rest of the village on San Cristóbal, the Progreso sugar factory was founded by Manuel J. Cobos. When it was built in the 1880s, the factory was very modern.

Description:
Martínez (1915:39) claims the processing plant was the largest that he had ever seen. A tall chimney dominated the zinc roofed building which housed imported machinery powered by three large boilers, each producing almost 112 kw of power, and fed by fuel from wood and bagasse. Mann (1908:29) described it as “ very well mounted and of a modern description,” noting that the up-to-date machinery, principally from Glasgow, included “a large cane mill, triple effects, vacuum pan, centrifugal separators, and a number of other accessories."
Abstract:
Hacienda El Progreso; Manuel J. Cobos
Subjects:
Galapagos Islands; San Cristóbal Island (Galapagos Islands); Sugar Factories
Subjects Facet:
Galapagos Islands; San Cristóbal Island (Galapagos Islands); Sugar Factories
Creator:
Dr. Peter W. Stahl
Publisher:
University of Victoria Libraries
Contributors:
Dr.Peter W. Stahl
Date:
1927
Date searchable:
1927
Date searchable:
1927
Genre:
Photographic Print; Digital image
Genre Facet:
Photographic Print; Digital image
Rights:
Copyright
Location(s):
El Progreso (Galapagos Islands)
Location(s) Facet:
El Progreso (Galapagos Islands)
Date Digitized:
2019
Commentary:
Photo courtesy Nette Næss, in Hoff, S. (1985) Drommen om Galapagos, Oslo: Grodahl & Son;