Images

A painting by Charles Blomfield (1848-1926) showing the eruption of Mount Tarawera (New Zealand) in 1886.

Sophie Hinerangi (c.1834-1911) is best known as Guide Sophia, who was a tourist guide on the famed pink and white terraces of New Zealand. The terraces were destroyed by volcanic eruption in 1866.

Photograph of Alfred Warbrick (1860-1940), who saw the eruption of Mount Tarawera in 1886. He assisted with rescue efforts and later went on to become a rugby player and boatbuilder. Warbrick was the son of an English father and a Maori mother...

Photograph showing the famed pink and white terraces of New Zealand and the terraced thermal pools on the edge of Lake Rotomahana. Photograph taken by Burton Bros (1866–1914) of Dunedin. The terraces were destroyed in 1886, following the...

Photograph taken by photographer, George Valentine (1852-1890), showing the destruction wrought by the eruption of the volcano, Mount Tarawera (New Zealand) in June 1886. The image shows what was left of the Rotomahana Hotel owned by Joseph...

An 1888 painting by Kenneth Watkins (1847-1933) of the 'phantom canoe' seen on Lake Tarawera, New Zealand on May 31, 1886, eleven days before the eruption of Mount Tarawera in June 1886. To the local Maori population, the sighting was an...

A cake of dried indigo dye. (Collection of the Technical University of Dresden, Germany)

Ruins of an indigo factory at Mongalganj, near Bangaon in West Bengal, India. Indigo was an important cash crop for the East India Company and during the British Raj.

A scene from the 1952 film The Life of Oharu showing a female puppet and handler as used in Japanese puppet theatre.

A statue of Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725), the Japanese playwright. Chikamatsu Park in Amagasaki City, Hyogo Prefecture.