VISUAL PROVENANCE

The featured images

14 images already in the site’s holdings have been featured on the home page and the History page. Here are their credits, taken from the project’s media register and checked against the original records when they are accessible. This list does not replace the provenance of the site as a whole.

Library and sources · Site provenance

Painting of the interior of a large coffeehouse in Istanbul: beneath a painted wooden ceiling carried by ornate columns, men in fezzes and turbans sit on low benches along the walls, around a large copper brazier set in the middle of the room.

ARCHIVE · late 19th century

A coffeehouse in Tophane, Istanbul

Megerdich Jivanian (1848-1906), after Thomas Allom; Google Art Project

Declared usage: Public domain

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Watercolor companion to the previous one, showing the same coffee plant at the fruit stage. The stem, almost vertical, bears along its whole length tight clusters of two-toned cherries, bright red on the side exposed to light and golden yellow at the base, while the dark green foliage is concentrated at the top of the branch. The name of the plant, written in pen at the bottom of the sheet, has almost faded.

ARCHIVE · around 1823

Coffee plant in fruit, watercolor companion to the previous one

Anonymous artist, watercolor on paper, around 1823; Wellcome Collection, London, picture reference V0043506ER

Declared usage: Public domain (Public Domain Mark, declared in the Wellcome record)

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PHOTOGRAPH ·

Coffee plantation in front of the line of volcanoes

Field photograph

Declared usage: Own holdings

Own holdings, no external URL

Coffee flows from the portafilter into a small graduated glass set on an electronic scale, against the chrome side of the machine.

PHOTOGRAPH ·

The stream of espresso in the graduated glass

James Collington

Declared usage: Pexels License

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Black-and-white line engraving of a whole coffee tree planted in a landscape, the trunk and branches finely hatched, accompanied separately by details of the flower, the opened cherry and the bean.

ARCHIVE · around 1726

The coffee plant, line engraving by H. Burgh, c. 1726

H. Burgh, engraving; Wellcome Collection, London

Declared usage: CC BY 4.0

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A freshly felled and burned forest slope, bristling with fallen trunks and stumps, where about thirty men in light shirts and straw hats dig planting holes in regular lines along the slope. Nothing is green yet: the image shows the zero state of a plantation, the forest destroyed before the first coffee plant is put in the ground.

PHOTO · 1875, print published in 1877

Opening of a coffee plantation near Antigua, Guatemala, 1875

Eadweard Muybridge, Setting out a Coffee Plantation at Antigua de Guatemala, 1875, albumen print published in 1877, National Gallery of Art, Washington, inventory no. 2006.133.109, gift of Mary and Dan Solomon and of the Patrons' Permanent Fund

Declared usage: Public domain (CC0, Open Access program of the National Gallery of Art)

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ARCHIVE · p. 231

Wild coffee plants of Kaffa, near Addis Ababa

William H. Ukers, All About Coffee (New York, The Tea and Coffee Trade Journal Company, 1922)

Declared usage: Public domain

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Black-and-white illustration from a travel book of 1893, captioned in English. A staircase of narrow terraces planted with coffee plants climbs a small valley toward a village clinging to the rock, dominated by a sandstone peak crowned with a watchtower. Two men work halfway up a terrace bench; in the foreground, a man armed with a stick, a child and a veiled woman climb the path. The plate shows what photographs of coffee rarely show: mountain coffee growing built on dry-stone terraces.

ARCHIVE · 1893

Coffee plants in terraces at Attara, near Manakha, Yemen, 1893

Plate printed separately from the text, from Walter Burton Harris, A Journey through the Yemen, and some general remarks upon that country, Edinburgh and London, 1893, p. 29; digitized copy of the British Library, shelfmark HMNTS 10076.eee.25

Declared usage: Public domain (work of 1893; British Library, Mechanical Curator collection)

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ARCHIVE · p. 60

A coffeehouse in the time of Charles II, woodcut of 1674

William H. Ukers, All About Coffee (New York, The Tea and Coffee Trade Journal Company, 1922)

Declared usage: Public domain

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Placard printed in Dutch, decorated with an engraved vignette and followed by a table of the company’s chambers.

ARCHIVE · illustration from the 1922 edition, p. 292

Public coffee auction poster of the Dutch East India Company, 1790

William H. Ukers, All About Coffee (New York, 1922)

Declared usage: Public domain

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Sheet 1 of Jabez Burns's patent. At the bottom, the longitudinal section of the drum housed in its hatched brick furnace, with the discharge cone folded down to the left; at the top, the end view of the machine, the drum seen as a circle in the middle of its frame. This is the arrangement that makes it possible, for the first time, to empty the roasted coffee without taking the drum out of the fire. The inventor's signature is at the bottom right, opposite the signature of the two witnesses.

PATENT · October 18, 1864

Jabez Burns patent no. 44,704, roaster, sheet 1: the machine in section

Jabez Burns, New York; U.S. patent no. 44,704, “Coffee Roaster,” United States Patent Office, Washington, 1864; plate lithographed by N. Peters, Washington

Declared usage: Public domain (plate from a U.S. patent, an official document not subject to copyright)

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