Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Rosario is one of the chief wheat ports of Argentina. It is situated on the south bank of the Parana river, about three hundred miles by water from Buenos Aires. It is about the size of Omaha. It is built right on the banks of the river, which is here so deep that great ocean streamers can sail through the Rio de la Plata and the Parana up to it."
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "The principal artery of the business section is Circular Quay, where the many ferries to the suburbs move in and out with their thousands going to and from work."
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Sydney, the oldest town in Australia, is the capital of New South Wales and its chief seaport. With a population of 1,100,000 it compares in size with Cleveland. Sydney covers a large area. Its streets wind about like those of Boston, and it is facetiously said that the place was originally laid out by a bullock driver with a boomerang. Its magnificent harbor and the enterprise of its people have made Sydney the New York of Australia. The city does business with all the world. It is the terminus of a dozen great steamship lines connecting the continent with Europe, Asia, Africa, and North and South America. Besides being linked up with all the great ports of the world, Sydney is a center of trade along the coast and with the countless islands of the South Seas."
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "This view taken from the bell tower of the German Church of the Redeemer, looks due east toward the Mount of Olives. While the Biblical expression is "Go up to Jerusalem," and Jerusalem is on a high elevation, it is not the highest in the vicinity. The mount of Olives overlooks Jerusalem being 250 feet higher than the Temple area, or 126 feet above Mount Zion."
In 1829 Dr. John McLoughlin laid claim to some land near Willamette Falls by making a number of improvements on it. He said that he believed this locality was 'destined by nature to become the best place for commerce in the country'. As time went on a number of settlers located there. The city was platted and named, by Dr. McLoughlin, 'Oregon City,' and became incorporated under the laws of the Provisional Government in 1844. This picture was probably taken around 1845, when the population did not exceed five hundred and when Portland was just a convenient camping place between Fort Vancouver and Oregon City.
This view shows Portland when it had not yet outdistanced its rival, the growing town of Milwaukee, for metropolitan honors. Each aspired to be the head of permanent navigation for ocean steamers. The Oregonian had just been established in December of the preceeding year. Within another year Portland had established itself as the head ocean going navigation and has ever since held that place. In 1848 only three or four vessels entered the Willamette. In 1850 over fifty ships found their way up to the vicinity of Portland.
The original of this picture was an old daguerreotype taken by Portland's veteran photographer, Joseph Buchtel. It was taken from a window of the Canton House, later the American Exchange, located at the corner of Front and Washington Streets. This view includes practically all there was of Portland in 1854. In the foreground are the buildings along the west side of Front Street between Washington and Alder. In the background the building with the square cupola is the Taylor Street Methodist Church.
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Tiberias, now Tabariyeh, is on the western shore of the lake of Galilee about seven miles from its southern end. The lake lies 627 feet below the level of the Mediterranean; the city is on a plain a few feet above the lake. After the destruction of Jerusalem, Tiberias became the seat of many Jewish schools. Here the Mishna was complied and published and about A.D. 220, and the Palestinian Talmud about 420. Here the vowel points were added to the Hebrew Bible about 600 A.D. Of its present population of 4,000 two-thirds are Jews."