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The history of formosa Stock Photos and Images
RMKGC8EC–Paris, France. Grand Palais (..des Champs-Élysées): mosaic frieze on the facade (based on drawings by Louis Édouard Fournier) History of Art
RMG6Y44A–Library assistant Charlotte Hoare at St John's College in Cambridge, examines a first edition of author George Psalmanazar's 17th century book, The History of Formosa, at the college's library in Cambridge.
RMEG6PYP–Chinese litter patients are carried from a C-54 in Taiwan following their flight from Korea. The former Chinese POWs chose not
RME0XBDP–Feb. 02, 1966 - Biggest Floods In Argentine History The north and Northwest provinces of Argentina: Formosa, Chaco, Corrientes and Santa Fe, especially the first mentioned two provinces are suffering from the worst inundations in Argentine history. The waters of the river Parana and its tributaries are still growing and flooding cities and vast areas forcing the evacuation of nearly 100,000 people and causing the loss of many of the countries best cattle. An airlift has been set-up to help evacuation and speedy vaccination against epidemics
RF2HETAX3–Coast of Formosa, line illlustration from Central Africa, Japan and Fiji published in 1882 by Hodder & Stoughton, London
RM2CGF32F–Koxinga (1624 –1662) (right) and Zheng Zhilong (1604–1661) (left), from 'The island of Formosa, past and present. History, people, resources, and commercial prospects. Tea, camphor, sugar, gold, coal, sulphur, economical plants, and other productions', published in 1903, Location University of California Libraries.
RF2NKWXXY–Manoba from Mindanao, Formosa drawn by E. Ronjat Chapter XXI - The Malays from Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages by John Clark Ridpath, 1840-1900 Publication date 1895 Publisher Boston : Balch Bros. Volume 6 History of Man and Mankind
RM2B01PGR–England/France/Taiwan: George Psalmanazar (1679 - 3 May 1763), 'Formosan' fantasist and pseudo-lexicographer. Engraving, 18th century. George Psalmanazar claimed to be the first Formosan to visit Europe. For some years he convinced many in Britain, but was later revealed to be an impostor. He later became a theological essayist and a friend and acquaintance of Samuel Johnson and other noted figures of 18th-century literary London. in 1704 Psalmanazar published a book entitled 'An Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa', an island subject to the Emperor of Japan.
RMERGEK0–VENICE - PIAZZA SANTA MARIA FORMOSA. 18th century engraving showing people promenading in the square Time of Vivaldi, Albinoni,
RM2R6CT4F–U.S. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson greeting crowds, Taipei, Formosa, Thomas J. O'Halloran, U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection, May 14, 1961
RMEG6PHB–Chinese litter patients are carried from a C-54 in Taiwan following their flight from Korea. The former Chinese POWs chose not
RF2DTWA0D–Giant turtles at the Chihkan Tower, also known as Fort Provintia when a Dutch outpost in Formosa, Tainan, Taiwan. May 1995
RMMR3P3H–Map of Formosa Island (now Taiwan). From voyages made to Persia and India 1727, by Johan Albrecht de Mandelslo (1616–1644). seventeenth-century German adventurer, who wrote about his travels through Persia and India.
RM2HD5WW4–Vintage 19th century photograph: Warrior, soldier from the island of Formosa, Taiwan, China.
RMACK9TH–Map of the China Sea, the Philippines, and European colonies in the southeast Asia region 1898. Color lithograph
RMG6Y446–Library assistant Charlotte Hoare at St John's College in Cambridge, examines a first edition of author George Psalmanazar's 17th century book, The History of Formosa, at the college's library in Cambridge.
RMEG6PYJ–Crowds in Seoul, Korea, greet Chinese ex-POWs prior to their flight to Formosa. They were released through the U.N. Neutral
RME0XBMM–Feb. 02, 1966 - Biggest Floods In Argentine History: The north and northwest provinces of Argentina: Formosa, Chaco, Coriientes
RM2J1BF7M–A late 18th century illustration of Bourreria formosa, one of a genus of flowering plants in the borage family, Boraginaceae. Members of the genus are commonly known as strongbark or strongback and are native to the Americas, where species are distributed from Mexico to northern South America, and in the Caribbean and Florida in the United States. From Biologia Centrali-Americana, aka Contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America by William Botting. Published in London in 1879.
RMDJC9Y2–A Bleeding Heart (Dicentra formosa) plant unfurling its first green leaves of spring in the Olympic National Park . 625
RM2B01BBF–Vietnam/China: Map of Tonkin (Vietnam), China, Formosa (Taiwan) and Luzon (Philippines), by Rigobert Bonne (1727-1795), 1771 . Bonne's 1771 map of Tonkin and the South China Sea/East Sea is important and controversial as it clearly shows Hainan Island (yellow outline) belonging to China and, more significantly, the Paracel Islands - currently disputed between China and Vietnam but occupied by the former - in green, as Vietnamese territory. The disputed Spratlys are not shown on the map. In 1771 Tonkin was ruled by the Trinh Lords (1545-1787), specifically by Trinh Sam (r. 1767-1782).
RMERG6BC–VENICE - PIAZZA SANTA MARIA FORMOSA. 18th century engraving showing people promenading in the square Time of Vivaldi, Albinoni,
RFC61FPA–The Kentucky Warbler (Sylvicola formosa, Geothlypis formosa) vintage bird lithograph - James De Kay, Zoology of New York, or the New-York Fauna, Birds
RMDA548F–Large light blue fortified mansion near Cabanas de Tavira on the Ria Formosa coast, Algarve, Portugal
RF2NKWXWT–Formosan Aborigines Chapter XXI - The Malays from Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages by John Clark Ridpath, 1840-1900 Publication date 1895 Publisher Boston : Balch Bros. Volume 6 History of Man and Mankind
RME1CW27–American POWs at in a Japanese camp in Airyokei, Takao Province, Formosa, ca. 1943-44. They observe a service for 'deceased
RM2H324G3–The Paraguay river in front of Formosa. Paraguay, South America. Old 19th century engraved illustration, Expedition to the Pilcomayo Delta by French explorer Emile Arthur Thouar from Le Tour du Monde 1889
RM2EJ4KEN–John Thomson (14 June 1837 – 29 September 1921) Scottish photographer, active in China c.1870, from an album of his images: people of Formosa, Taiwan
RMG6Y44E–Library assistant Charlotte Hoare at St John's College in Cambridge, examines a first edition of author George Psalmanazar's 17th century book, The History of Formosa, at the college's library in Cambridge.
RMCWBYCK–Six Chinese children who recently arrivals from Hong Kong and Formosa, hold placards giving their Chinese name in both Chinese
RME0MEGJ–Feb. 02, 1955 - A victim of the Formosa conflict became the British firefighter ''Edendals''. National Chinese bombers hit the ship in the harbour of Swatow during an attack on the red Chinese continent on January 19th 55. The crew was saved. Techiang Kaischeck refused claims for damage of England by the reason that the coast of the Chinese province Fukien is war-district. Photo shows the sinking 1700 BRT freighter in the harbour of Swatow.
RMKCDGWD–1771, Bonne Map of Tonkin, Vietnam China, Formosa, Taiwan and Luzon, Philippines, Rigobert Bonne 1727 – 1794
RM2N2HH88–Sac spiders. Clubiona stagnatilis 75, Clubiona terrestris 76, Clubiona pallidula 77,78, bark sac spider, Clubiona corticalis 79, Clubiona brevipes 80, and Clubiona comta 81. Handcoloured lithograph by W. West after Tuffen West from John Blackwall’s A History of the Spiders of Great Britain and Ireland, Ray Society, London, 1861.
RMB7PT5X–Boating Formosa river banks boat rowing relaxing sport leisure romantic jungle tropical Taiwan is an island in East Asia. 'Taiwa
RMP7868Y–English: 'Formosa from the latest Japanese government surveys.' 1901. Map. Insert to Davidson, James W. (1903) The Island of Formosa, Past and Present : history, people, resources, and commercial prospects : tea, camphor, sugar, gold, coal, sulphur, economical plants, and other productions, London and New York: Macmillan. Note on nomenclature and pronunciation (p. iii): 'The Japanese name is given first, and the Chinese in brackets, with the exception of a few well-known names such as Kelung, Takow, etc., and some English names of islands in the Pescadores.' . 1901 20 Davidson (1901) - General
RF2NKWXXT–Dance at a Native marriage ceremony Chapter XXI - The Malays from Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages by John Clark Ridpath, 1840-1900 Publication date 1895 Publisher Boston : Balch Bros. Volume 6 History of Man and Mankind
RMEG6PH7–Crowds in Seoul, Korea, greet Chinese ex-POWs prior to their flight to Formosa. They were released through the U.N. Neutral
RM2EJ4KKA–John Thomson (14 June 1837 – 29 September 1921) Scottish photographer, active in China c.1870, from an album of his images: Lalung River, Formosa, Taiwan
RM2B00Y41–China/Taiwan: Aboriginal people hunting deer, c. 1750. Taiwanese aborigines (Chinese: yuánzhùmín; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: gôan-chū-bîn; literally 'original inhabitants') may have been living on the islands for approximately 8,000 years before major Han Chinese immigration began in the 17th century. Taiwanese aborigines are Austronesian peoples, with linguistic and genetic ties to other Austronesian ethnic groups, such as peoples of the Philippines, Indonesia and Oceania. For centuries, Taiwan's aboriginal peoples experienced economic competition and military conflict with a series of colonising peoples.
RMKWDK6P–At the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, Japan invaded the Pescadores Islands. In March 1894, the Japanese quickly defeated the Chinese garrison and occupied the largest island, Makun. China ceded Taiwan to Japan in the peace negotiations Shimonoseki in April 1895 (BSLOC 2017 18 85)
RMKCDH75–1815, Thomson Map of China and Formosa, Taiwan, John Thomson, 1777 - 1840, was a Scottish cartographer from Edinburgh, UK
RMEW911P–Carvings on the exterior of Church of Santa Maria Formosa Castello Venice Veneto Italy Europe
RFPRT8CJ–Broad Centurian soldierfly (Chloromyia formosa) perched on creeping buttercup. Tipperary, Ireland
RF2K0MEKW–Various photos of the large tower that is located next to the Church of Santa Maria Formosa
RFDNHM61–Low angle view of a hotel, Palazzo Vitturi, Campo Santa Maria Formosa, Venice, Veneto, Italy
RM2EJ4KF3–John Thomson (14 June 1837 – 29 September 1921) Scottish photographer, active in China c.1870, from an album of his images: Fort Zeelandia, Formosa, Taiwan
RM2B00Y47–China/Taiwan: Map of the distribution of indigenous peoples in Taiwan. Taiwanese aborigines (Chinese: yuánzhùmín; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: gôan-chū-bîn; literally 'original inhabitants') may have been living on the islands for approximately 8,000 years before major Han Chinese immigration began in the 17th century. Taiwanese aborigines are Austronesian peoples, with linguistic and genetic ties to other Austronesian ethnic groups, such as peoples of the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Madagascar and Oceania.
RMEG6PT8–Chinese Nationalist soldier stands guard on a sandy beach somewhere along Formosa's coast. Nationalists and mainland Communists
RF2NKWXT6–View of Ta-Kau-Kau Formosa Taiwan Chapter XXI - The Malays from Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages by John Clark Ridpath, 1840-1900 Publication date 1895 Publisher Boston : Balch Bros. Volume 6 History of Man and Mankind
RM2AAR4KR–A Red Admiral butterfly, Vanessa atalanta resting on Himalayan Honeysuckle, Leycesteria formosa, in a garden in Lancashire England UK GB
RMRYAEPD–European Factories in Canton. Engraving 1858. China is Open! that is the Cry We Hear in Britain France Russia and America. The Ports of Canton Swatow Taiwan and Formosa Are Open. Engraving 1858
RFKMGC20–Broad Centurian soldierfly (Chloromyia formosa) at rest on a nettle leaf. Cahir, Tipperary, Ireland.
RM2FM89GJ–Red leschenaultia, Leschenaultia formosa, Western Australia. Leschenaulti elegante. Handcoloured steel engraving from Charles d'Orbigny's Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle (Universal Dictionary of Natural History), Paris, 1849.
RM2EJ4KKR–John Thomson (14 June 1837 – 29 September 1921) Scottish photographer, active in China c.1870, from an album of his images: mountain stream, Formosa, Taiwan
RM2B00Y42–China/Taiwan: 'Pepohoan Mother and Child'. Illustration by John Thomson (1837-1921), 1875. Taiwanese aborigines (Chinese: yuánzhùmín; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: gôan-chū-bîn; literally 'original inhabitants') may have been living on the islands for approximately 8,000 years before major Han Chinese immigration began in the 17th century. Taiwanese aborigines are Austronesian peoples, with linguistic and genetic ties to other Austronesian ethnic groups, such as peoples of the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Madagascar and Oceania.
RMF2B2FM–Sen. William Knowland talks with Chinese Nationalist General Hu Lien on Formosa. Nov-Dec. 1950. Chiang Kai Shek's defeated Kuomintang established the 'Republic of China on Taiwan' after their defeat by Chinese Communists on the mainland in 1949. (CSU 2015 7 359)
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