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– Harriet Chalmers Adams (1875 – 1937): «American explorer, writer and photographer. She traveled extensively in South America, Asia and the South Pacific in the early 20th century, and published accounts of her journeys in National Geographic magazine. She lectured frequently on her travels and illustrated her talks with color slides and movies.» (Ver https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Chalmers_Adams)

Fotografias de:

– Franklin Adams: talvez Franklin Pierce Adams, marido de Harriet Chalmers Adams.

– Wilhelm Tobien: fotógrafo alemão sobre quem não consegui muita informação. (Ver https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/photo…/wilhelm-tobien, https://www.annenbergphotospace.org/person/wilhelm-tobien/)

– Arminius Titus Haeberle (1874 – 1943): foi consul dos EUA em Ponta Delgada entre 1914 e 1915, pelo que a sua fotografia data provavelmente dessa altura. (Ver https://politicalstrangenames.blogspot.com/…/arminius…)

– Toste: provavelmente Jácome Pacheco Toste (1885 – 1960), fotógrafo açoriano proprietário da Fotografia Artística. (Ver http://www.culturacores.azores.gov.pt/…/historia.aspx, https://bit.ly/3YrP6Ge)

– J. Leite: talvez João Leite, filho de António José Leite (1872 – 1943), portuense radicado na Terceira, talvez o próprio António José Leite. (Ver http://www.culturacores.azores.gov.pt/…/historia.aspx)

– Norberto de Faria Amaral: foi Presidente da Comissão Executiva da Junta Geral do Distrito Autónomo da Horta. (Ver https://files.dre.pt/gratuitos/3s/1951/09/1951d226s000.pdf)

– Victor Cruz: não consegui informação

– Harriet Chalmers Adams (1875 – 1937): descrição acima. (Ver https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/…/harriet-chalmers…)

– Maynard Owen Williams (1888 – 1963): «became the first National Geographic foreign correspondent in 1919. Over the course of his career, he explored Asia and witnessed the Russian Revolution. He died in Antalya, Turkey, and was buried in the Feriköy Protestant Cemetery located in Istanbul.» (Ver https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maynard_Owen_Williams, https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/…/maynard-owen…)

– Manuel Joaquim de Matos (1883-1944): «fotógrafo, coreógrafo e professor de dança. Foi proprietário do Salão Photograpico High-Life, em Ponta Delgada, fundado em 1908 e com atividade conhecida até finais dos anos 1930, que funcionou primeiro na Rua Nova da Matriz (atual Rua António José de Almeida), n.º 27, tendo inicialmente como sócio Jacinto Leite do Canto Pacheco, e depois na Rua Açoriano Oriental (antiga Rua da Cadeia), n.º 27.» (Ver http://www.icpd.pt/arquivo/ver.php?id=2636)

Sobre as Flores:

«Flores is the most beautiful of all the islands. Water is so plentiful that streams cascade into the sea. The hedges of blue hydrangeas, the floral wonder of the Azores, are at their best from July to September on nearly all the islands, growing to a height of 10 to 20 feet. In Flores trails are actually cut through tunnels of these sky-blue blossoms. Masses of golden broom drape the cliffs. The island is without roads, but one is soon to be constructed. Both Flores and Corvo are connected by radio with the other islands.»

Da introdução:

«Little more than 1,000 statute A miles from the European mainland and about 1,300 miles from Newfoundland, in latitude a little north of Lisbon, a little south of New York, lies the most westerly of the nine Azorian islands.

Fast steamers from New York reach Ponta Delgada, metropolis of the Azores, in five and a half days. Seaplanes have flown across from Newfoundland between dawn and dusk. Three hospitable harbors in this friendly archipelago await the coming of commercial seaplanes, which will form another link between the New World and the Old (see page 54).

Closely allied as they are with Portugal, of which they form an integral part politically, these fertile green islands, with their lush pastures and mist-wreathed mountains, long ago turned their faces toward the West, sending their frugal, industrious sons to the United States, where, before 1929, there was probably one Azorian to every two left at home. Most of them are found in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and California. More than once on the streets of Azorian towns I was approached by a stranger who doffed his hat and politely inquired:

“You are an American?”

When I assented, my new acquaintance informed me he voted in New England or California, but was born in the Azores; was “back home to see the old folks,” or “here until times are better in the States.”

From a rounded hilltop back of a rainbow-tinted town, I looked past oblong fields bordered by high stone walls of dark-gray lava to tile-roofed, many-windowed buildings stretching between gardens and parks along the curving coast. It was springtime and all about was the trilling, piping, and fluting of birds. In the fields barefoot men sang as they toiled. Far out at sea, blue as the sky on this calm May day, a sailing ship winged toward the shore. So from the east came the first adventurous sail to these then uninhabited isles; but whether it was Carthaginian, Moorish-Arab, or Iberian, we are not sure. In the 15th century the valiant ocean- mapping Portuguese colonized these islands and, save for 60 years of Spanish rule, have governed them ever since.

The islands, of volcanic origin, stretch for about 375 miles from northwest to southeast, in three severed groups with clear channels between. Corvo, smallest and by far the most primitive, lies farthest north; Flores, beautiful and well watered, farthest west (see map, page 36).

To the southeast, across a tempestuous stretch of winter sea, is the central group: Fayal, seat of the oceanic cable station; Pico, with its majestic conical mountain; São Jorge, with its rich pastures, exporting excellent cheese; Graciosa, with “more wine than water;” Terceira, most interesting historically, preserver of old customs.

Another wide channel and we reach São Miguel, which the British and Americans call St. Michael’s, largest and most important of the group, with Ponta Delgada, chief city of the archipelago (see Color Plate I); and, again to the south, Santa Maria, first to be discovered and colonized. “Islands Adjacent” is Portugal’s official designation of Madeira and the Azores, the last named, as one wit has remarked, being adjacent only to one another. In Portuguese the name is Açores, which signifies “hawks.”»