John Payne & Son. [Londres ?]. Circa 1890-1900.

De 16x22 cm. Ilustrado com 18 fotogravuras a preto e branco.

Brochado.

Album de vistas ou panoramas turisticos em papel fotografico com esquadrias decorativas impressas a seco.

 Booklet containing 18 excellent black and white photographs:

1. Pier – entrance to town (the Avenida Zarco from the Cais. To the left you can see the Palacio de Lourenco). 2. Funchal – looking east (Before the main quay was built two small armored rock islands guarded the harbor). 3. Funchal (On the left side the Palacio de Laurenco, above it the Se Cathedral. 4. Funchal bay View of the old harbor. (The picture must have been taken from about the location where today stands the Reid’s Hotel). 5. Funchal from the mount (the cable car of the Companhia do Caminho-de-Ferro do Monte which went on until 1943. 6. Cathedral (This cathedral was built by Gil Eanes between 1493 and 1514). 7. Dona Maria Theatre. 8. Public Gardens. 9. Belmonte Hotel Gardens (Today the gardens of the old Monte Palace Hotel are by far more famous, since Berardo turned them into a huge park. 10. Bullock Car. (The “car” was a sleigh of course and the pebble roads offered little friction to the sleigh’s runners). 11. Hammock This was the a way of transport back then). 12. Funicular railway (this railway went up to Monte at first. In 1912 it was extended up to Terreiro da Luta; same railway at picture 5). 13. Mountain sledge (sledges still exist today.) 14. Road and river ( taken from above the Riba de Santa Luzia into the direction of Funchal bay. On the left side you can see the building that today houses the Instituto do Vinho da Madeira, the second high building from the left. The house was built by Henry Veitch, being British Consul from 1809 to 1828 and 1831 to 1835). 15. Country cottage. 16. Village of Cama[ra] de Lobos. 17. Grand Curral. (Mountain road to the Curral das Freiras). 18. Rabaçal (favorite hiking spot).