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Locust Destruction

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Monday, November 3, 2025 - 12:31
In University Archives and Manuscripts

Identifier

Coll-1434/706

Date

1870s-1930s

Creator

Ewart, James Cossar, 1851-1933 (zoologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh)

Description

Photograph of men standing in a field with sheets gathering up locust carcasses while cattle graze in the background in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Locust Destruction

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Monday, November 3, 2025 - 12:31
In University Archives and Manuscripts

Identifier

Coll-1434/707

Date

1870s-1930s

Creator

Ewart, James Cossar, 1851-1933 (zoologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh)

Description

Photograph of a pit filled with locust carcasses to be buried or burnt in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Building Charcoal Pilas, Cabaria Toriane

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Monday, November 3, 2025 - 12:31
In University Archives and Manuscripts

Identifier

Coll-1434/708

Date

1870s-1930s

Creator

Ewart, James Cossar, 1851-1933 (zoologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh)

Description

Photograph of men building piles of charcoal supported by logs in Cabaria Toriane in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Graval Barranca, Frans-Audine Roy

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Monday, November 3, 2025 - 12:31
In University Archives and Manuscripts

Identifier

Coll-1434/709

Date

1870s-1930s

Creator

Ewart, James Cossar, 1851-1933 (zoologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh)

Description

Photograph of Graval Barranca, Frans-Audine Roy showing a train, tracks and bridge through a mountainous area in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Deeply Rooted Plants

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Monday, November 3, 2025 - 12:31
In University Archives and Manuscripts

Identifier

Coll-1434/700

Date

1870s-1930s

Creator

Ewart, James Cossar, 1851-1933 (zoologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh)

Description

Photograph of a few deeply rooted plants.

Alfalfa Breeding Plots

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Monday, November 3, 2025 - 12:31
In University Archives and Manuscripts

Identifier

Coll-1434/702

Date

1870s-1930s

Creator

Ewart, James Cossar, 1851-1933 (zoologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh)

Description

Photograph by Westgate from the October 1911 edition of the National Geographic Magazine showing alfalfa breeding plots with text beneath the image relating to the history of alfalfa.

Alfalfa

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Monday, November 3, 2025 - 12:31
In University Archives and Manuscripts

Identifier

Coll-1434/703

Date

1870s-1930s

Creator

Ewart, James Cossar, 1851-1933 (zoologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh)

Description

Illustration of an alfalfa plant at 3 years old.

Creole Cattle

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Monday, November 3, 2025 - 12:31
In University Archives and Manuscripts

Identifier

Coll-1434/704

Date

1870s-1930s

Creator

Ewart, James Cossar, 1851-1933 (zoologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh)

Description

Photograph of a distant view of a herd of Creole cattle in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Country Under Water

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Monday, November 3, 2025 - 12:31
In University Archives and Manuscripts

Identifier

Coll-1434/705

Date

1870s-1930s

Creator

Ewart, James Cossar, 1851-1933 (zoologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh)

Description

Photograph of a cow walking through a flooded field in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Palace of Cortez, Cuernavaca

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Monday, November 3, 2025 - 12:31
In University Archives and Manuscripts

Identifier

Coll-1434/695

Date

1870s-1930s

Creator

Ewart, James Cossar, 1851-1933 (zoologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh)

Description

Photograph of the Palace of Cortez at Cuernavaca, Mexico in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Patio of the Jockey Club

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Monday, November 3, 2025 - 12:31
In University Archives and Manuscripts

Identifier

Coll-1434/696

Date

1870s-1930s

Creator

Ewart, James Cossar, 1851-1933 (zoologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh)

Description

Photograph of the patio of the Jockey Club in [Mexico City] in [1902?].

Plaza de Santo Domingo

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Monday, November 3, 2025 - 12:31
In University Archives and Manuscripts

Identifier

Coll-1434/697

Date

1870s-1930s

Creator

Ewart, James Cossar, 1851-1933 (zoologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh)

Description

Photograph of the Plaza de Santo Domingo in [Mexico City} in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Government House, La Paz

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Monday, November 3, 2025 - 12:31
In University Archives and Manuscripts

Identifier

Coll-1434/698

Date

1870s-1930s

Creator

Ewart, James Cossar, 1851-1933 (zoologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh)

Description

Photograph of the Government House in La Paz with people in horse drawn carriages on the road in front in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Ruins

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Monday, November 3, 2025 - 12:31
In University Archives and Manuscripts

Identifier

Coll-1434/699

Date

1870s-1930s

Creator

Ewart, James Cossar, 1851-1933 (zoologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh)

Description

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Baby Gardener

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Monday, November 3, 2025 - 12:30
In University Archives and Manuscripts

Identifier

Coll-1434/690

Date

1870s-1930s

Creator

Ewart, James Cossar, 1851-1933 (zoologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh)

Description

Photograph of a young, unidentified girl sitting in a chair outside in a garden holding a stick in one hand and with a doll on the ground beside her in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Negrette and the Children of James Reid

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Monday, November 3, 2025 - 12:30
In University Archives and Manuscripts

Identifier

Coll-1434/691

Date

1870s-1930s

Creator

Ewart, James Cossar, 1851-1933 (zoologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh)

Description

Photograph of Negrette and James Reid's children with two dogs on the lawn in front of a house in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Harry Foster's House (Cost £1000)

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Monday, November 3, 2025 - 12:30
In University Archives and Manuscripts

Identifier

Coll-1434/692

Date

1870s-1930s

Creator

Ewart, James Cossar, 1851-1933 (zoologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh)

Description

Photograph of Harry Foster's House which cost £1000 in the early 20th century. Harry Foster[?] may be standing on the porch with his dog in [possibly New Zealand or Australia}.

William McCall's House

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Monday, November 3, 2025 - 12:30
In University Archives and Manuscripts

Identifier

Coll-1434/693

Date

1870s-1930s

Creator

Ewart, James Cossar, 1851-1933 (zoologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh)

Description

Photograph of the exterior of William McCall's house in [Buenos Aires, Argentina] with two men, a woman and a horse standing next to it in the early 20th century.

Las Monjas, Uxmal

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Monday, November 3, 2025 - 12:30
In University Archives and Manuscripts

Identifier

Coll-1434/694

Date

1870s-1930s

Creator

Ewart, James Cossar, 1851-1933 (zoologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh)

Description

Photograph of the ruins of the nunnery [las monjas] at the Mayan city of Uxmal in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Winnowing in India

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Monday, November 3, 2025 - 12:30
In University Archives and Manuscripts

Identifier

Coll-1434/685

Date

1870s-1930s

Creator

Ewart, James Cossar, 1851-1933 (zoologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh)

Description

Photograph of two men 'winnowing wheat at my own lands at Deoband District Saharanpur, B.D.K.'

Man Posing with a Hoe in a Forest

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Monday, November 3, 2025 - 12:30
In University Archives and Manuscripts

Identifier

Coll-1434/686

Date

1870s-1930s

Creator

Ewart, James Cossar, 1851-1933 (zoologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh)

Description

Photograph of a man posing with a hoe in a forest in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Aqueduct of Belem

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Monday, November 3, 2025 - 12:30
In University Archives and Manuscripts

Identifier

Coll-1434/687

Date

1870s-1930s

Creator

Ewart, James Cossar, 1851-1933 (zoologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh)

Description

Photograph of the aqueduct at Belem in Brazil in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Palacio Central, Ruins of Hoch-ob, Campeche

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Monday, November 3, 2025 - 12:30
In University Archives and Manuscripts

Identifier

Coll-1434/688

Date

1870s-1930s

Creator

Ewart, James Cossar, 1851-1933 (zoologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh)

Description

Photograph of four men standing in the entry way of the Palacio Central, ruins of Hoch-ob, Campeche, Mexico in the early 20th century.

Ruins of Hoch-Ob, Campeche

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Monday, November 3, 2025 - 12:30
In University Archives and Manuscripts

Identifier

Coll-1434/689

Date

1870s-1930s

Creator

Ewart, James Cossar, 1851-1933 (zoologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh)

Description

Photograph of the ruins of Hoch-Ob in Campeche, Mexico in the early 20th century.

Shearing Board, Burrawang Station, New South Wales

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Monday, November 3, 2025 - 12:30
In University Archives and Manuscripts

Identifier

Coll-1434/644

Date

1870s-1930s

Creator

Ewart, James Cossar, 1851-1933 (zoologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh)

Description

Photograph of a group of men shearing sheep in a shearing shed at Burrawang Station, New South Wales, Australia in the late 19th or early 20th century. …

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