Costa Rica Rich History Snapshots

We’ll select a variety of photographs that are a snapshot of days gone by. The rugged lifestyle, the rich culture, and the history can all be seen with these selections.

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Indigenous family in Tuis de Turrialba, Cartago 1907

First Cabécar school in Ujarrás south zone. First vocabularies in Cabécar. This at the initiative of Archaeologist Doris Stone. photo 1950

Photo from the Talamaca area which is the mountain ranges that cross Costa Rica and Panama. 1892

Chirripó- indigenous 1890

It was the Banco Nacional, in 1939, the last one that printed banknotes with the face of an indigenous Tico, it is said to be a painting based on the last king of Talamanca, Antonio Saldaña

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