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Collection Area Printed Collections Language Not applicable Subject Volcanoes

1. 010095.de.56(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
010095.de.56(1)
Title:
Culminating point of the peak of Teneriffe, 12,198 feet high, showing the interior of the terminal crater of the mountain. Photographer: Smyth, Charles Piazzi
Scope & Content:
Genre: Scientific Photography Frontispiece. Stereographic view, showing figures posed among the rocks of the peak: 'Yet wait my friends, said I, one moment more; allow me only another photograph; for these sulphurous exhalations of the ground, have spoilt nearly all my plates today. So Don Mart...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1856
Extent:
1 item

2. 010095.de.56(10)

Reference (shelfmark):
010095.de.56(10)
Title:
Specimen of the Malpays of black lava, near Alta Vista. Photographer: Smyth, Charles Piazzi
Scope & Content:
Genre: Scientific Photography Stereoscopic view of lava mounds, facing p. 125.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1856
Extent:
1 item

3. 010095.de.56(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
010095.de.56(2)
Title:
Volcanic 'blowing cone' in Orotava, on the northern coast of Teneriffe. Photographer: Smyth, Charles Piazzi
Scope & Content:
Genre: Scientific Photography Facing p. 27. Stereographic view looking along a street in La Orotava, towards the volcanic cone, with three men standing in the foreground. See pp. 54-55, for Smyth's description of taking several photographs at this location.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1856
Extent:
1 item

4. 010095.de.56(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
010095.de.56(6)
Title:
Cliff and floor of the great crater − eight miles in diameter, and 7000 feet above the sea − under Mount Guajara. Photographer: Smyth, Charles Piazzi
Scope & Content:
Genre: Scientific Photography Stereoscopic view, facing p. 145, looking down into the crater, with the cliff edge in the left foreground.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1856
Extent:
1 item

5. 010095.de.56(9)

Reference (shelfmark):
010095.de.56(9)
Title:
Masses of lava slag at Alta Vista. Photographer: Smyth, Charles Piazzi
Scope & Content:
Genre: Scientific Photography Stereoscopic view, facing p. 215, of lava mounds. These blocks, 'varied and grotesque,' are described on p. 250.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1856
Extent:
1 item

6. 10480.ee.10(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
10480.ee.10(6)
Title:
The Volcano of Iztaccihuatl. 15,705 feet high. Photographer: Kilburn Brothers
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Facing p. 53. View looking towards the snow-capped peaks of the volcano from the garden of an estate.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

7. 10480.ee.10(14)

Reference (shelfmark):
10480.ee.10(14)
Title:
The Volcano of Popocatapetl. 17,726 feet high. Photographer: Kilburn Brothers
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Facing p. 82. General view across the valley towards the volcano.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

8. L.R.404.k.10(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.404.k.10(2)
Title:
Mount Fuji as seen from Kashiwabara. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking across the water towards Mount Fuji, with two figures in small boats in the foreground.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

9. PP.3803.bha, 3/20(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
PP.3803.bha, 3/20(3)
Title:
A portion of the crater of Fujisan. Photographer: Elliott
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking down into the crater of Mount Fuji. A faded print: 'The photograph was taken and kindly lent to us for publication, by Dr. Elliott, a gentleman who was during the civil war in America, a surgeon in that celebrated regiment the New York Highlanders.' (p....
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1873
Extent:
1 item