19th Century Gallery

Cafe Cantante El Burrero Seville
La Rabida Monastery where Christopher Columbus stayed before his voyage of discovery
Columbus Hotel advertisement
The convent of Franciscan friars, dedicated to Santa Maria de Rabida
Barges at San Juan del Puerto operating under the Buitron and Huelva Railway and Mining Company
Sir Charles Tennant
View of the Rio Tinto Company Pier on the Odiel River. Still exits today.
Rio Tinto Company train station in Huelva
Nursing staff in the Rio Tinto Company Hospital
Floating Baths on the Odiel River
Lawn Tennis at Hotel Colon
Calle Monasterios, Today named after Manuel Vazquez Lopez
Early 20th century map of Huelva
Dr. William Alexander Mackay
Huelva fishing port
Ernest Deligny
Working class dwelling in Huelva
Rio Tinto Village
Town Hall in Calle Cánovas
English ladies in front of the Presbyterian church at Rio Tinto
Huelva fishing port
Interior of La Rabida Monastery where Christopher Columbus stayed before his journey of discovery. Still exists today
View of Huelva Port on the Odiel River
English houses and tennis courts Bella Vista in Rio Tinto built for the British mining staff
La Zarza open-pit mine (1887) run by the Tharsis Sulphur and Copper Company from Glasgow.
Concepcion Church in Concepcion Street. Still exists today
Heap roasting of the pyrites
Working the Huelva pyrite open-cast mines
Huelva-Seville Train Station 15 March, 1880
The Hotel Colon
The Bishop of Gibraltar, Rev. Sandford who visited Huelva city and the Rio Tinto mines, in 1882
Hotel Colon Interior
Workers at the Huelva Pyrite Mines
The Deadwood Coach
Salomon iron bridge and tunnel on the line from Rio Tinto to Huelva. Still exists today.
A social gathering in Punta Umbria
The Buitron and Huelva Railway and Mineral Company Limited
Village and Mines of Rio Tinto 1875
Official 1892 Columbus Celebrations poster
Minas de Riotinto 1878
Calle Sagasta, now known as Calle Plus Ultra
Huelva Seamen's Institute
Royal Procession in Merced Square during the IV Centenary celebrations October 1892
The Rio Tinto Company English Hospital in Calle San Andrés designed by William Alexander Mackay
The Gran Hotel Internacional in Calle Sagasta
La Cinta Sanctuary
Copper smelting
Map of Huelva before the arrival of the British mining companies, probably 1860s or earlier
Zafra Railway and deposits at Huelva port
First houses in Punta Umbria for leisure and convalescence of the British mining staff
Hotel Colon Plans early 1880s
Mr Hugh Mackay Matheson
Calle La Fuente
Rio Tinto Company Pier
Huelva 1875
North Pavilion of the luxury Columbus Hotel in Huelva
Building the Tharsis Warf end of the 1860s
Bullring at Rio Tinto
Tharsis Station belonging to the Tharsis Sulphur and Copper Company.
Working the Huelva pyrite open-cast mines
San Pedro Church in Huelva Capital
Map of Tharsis Mines 1868
The Jane Cory whose crew played one of the first football matches organised by Dr. W. A. Mackay with the Rio Tinto staff
Early map of Huelva city 1847
Hotel Colon North Pavilion (no longer exists)
View of the Rio Tinto Railway 1875
Working the Huelva pyrite open-cast mines
Oxen bringing blocks of marble from the quarries in Fuenteheritos to build the monument in La Rabida
British residents in Huelva most likely employees from the mining companies
Calle Palacios