The Orchid Mae Collection - Extended Learning

Connecting Two Oceans  Map of the Panama Canal Zone. Fig. from The American Type of Isthmian Canal, speech given by Senator John F. Dryden...

Madame Blavatsky and Theosophy Madame Blavatsky, Photograph from Hours With the Ghosts or Nineteenth Century Witchcraft. 1897. Chicago: La...

Bumba-Meu-Boi  Stamp Promoting National Folklore – Bumba Meu Boi. 1972. Source Presentation of the Ox at the Parintins Festival ...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and His Dancing Men Conan Doyle, photograph 1913. Bain News Service. Library of Congress.   Sir Arthur Ig...

Meeting of the Waters The Meeting of the Waters, or Encontro das Águas in Portuguese, is a beautiful wonder of nature located in Manaus, Br...

The Mighty Amazon The Amazon and it’s drainage basin. Created 2008. Kmusser. Creative Commons Sunlight on the Amazon River, Br...

A Killer Bite  U.S. Public Health Poster, American Red Cross Photograph Collection, Library of Congress  Malaria is a life-threa...

Barbados The Careenage, Bridgetown, Barbados. Percy William Justyne, c.1848. Public Domain  Barbados, the easternmost island in ...

Spiritualism Mrs. Fish and the Misses Fox: the original mediums of the mysterious noises at Rochester Western, N.Y. 1852. Library of Cong...

Boxing Right-hand Cross-counter, pg 144 Fencing, Boxing, Wrestling, 1890. Longmans, Green. Courtesy of archive.org. Contestant...

The Intrepid Nellie Bly Nellie Bly, 1888. Courtesy of Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Nellie Bly, circa 1890. C...