Sujet

Salvation Islands, French Guiana, 1898. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Salvation Islands, French Guiana, 1898. From left to right: Devil's Island, Royal Island and Saint-Joseph Island. The former French captain Alfred Dreyfus served his sentence between 1895 and 1899 in the penal colony on Devil's Island. The Salvation Islands were so called because missionaries went there to escape plague on the mainland. From "La Ilustración Española y Americana", 1898.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/PRISMA ARCHIVO FOTOGRÁFICO, S.L.

Notre référence

HRM25A41_292

Model release

NA

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

30,5Mo (1,7Mo) / 44,0cm x 17,4cm / 5197 x 2053 (300dpi)

Mots clés

ocean sea islands law crime island magazine geography Atlantic Ocean prison location century B&W engraved engraving publication penitentiary cayenne 19th century penal colony French Guiana black & white black and white B W nineteenth century geographical feature TGN landscape photo-mechanical process Unknown Devil's Island Albert Alfred Dreyfus Photoengraving 19th-century photo-engraving Prisma Archivo Fotografico La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana La Ilustración Española y Americana Alfred Dreyfus The Spanish and American Enlightenment Salvation Islands