The Orchid Mae Collection - Extended Learning

Birds of the Amazon and Their Habitat The avian life in the Amazon Rainforest is full of wonders for nature lovers and bird enthusiasts. There ...

The Quechua  Peruvian Weavers, painting by Jo Fraser 2012. Jo Fraser  The Quechua people are any of the indigenous ethnic groups na...

Amazon Plant Medicine Traditional plant medicine in the Amazon Rainforest represents one of the most ancient and intricate systems of natur...

Untitled illustrated cartoon. Clifford Berryman in Washington Post 30 April 1906. National Archives Description: Shows William Taft reading T...

Archeology in the Early 1900s Flinders Petrie outside the tomb he lived in during his survey of the Great Pyramid, 1881. Photograph. Arche...

Pre-Colombian Mummification  When most people think about mummification, Egyptian mummies are usually the first that come to mind, brown s...

The Jivaro Jivaro Family on the Banks of the Alto Marañon. Historical and Ethnographical Material on the Jivaro Indians, The Smithsonian I...

The Amazon Rainforest  Aerial View of Amazon Rainforest. Photograph 2011 by Neil Palmer. Creative Commons  The Amazon Rainforest...

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...