Photograph: Tequendama Falls, n.d.
A 20th-century photograph of Salo de Tequendema in Colombia, taken by Gumersindo Cuéllar Jiménez.
A 20th-century photograph of Salo de Tequendema in Colombia, taken by Gumersindo Cuéllar Jiménez.
In addition to depicting a phase of the channelization works of the San Francisco River, this image shows Bogotá’s urban landscape, with the Eastern Mountains in the background and trees such as eucalyptus, pines and cypress along the river.
Lithograph by Leopold Niemirowski from Puteshestvie po vostochnoi Sibiri I. Bulychova (Bulychov’s Travels in Eastern Siberia), 1856.
A map of the 1974 flood in Brisbane, Australia.
Fedor Yakovlevich Alekseev’s painting of Karuselnaya square (now Teatralnaya square) during the 1824 flood.
This painting by Leander Russ depicts a rescue operation during a flood in Vienna in 1847.
An early color photograph of the Suna River by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (1863–1944), who is also featured in the picture.