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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...
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Date Range:
1856
Extent:
1 item

2. 010095.de.56(13)

Reference (shelfmark):
010095.de.56(13)
Title:
Entrance to the ice cavern, in the Malpays of the peak of Teneriffe, at the height of 11,040 feet. Photographer: Smyth, Charles Piazzi
Scope & Content:
Genre: Scientific Photography Stereoscopic view, facing p. 321, looking towards the mouth of the cave, set among lava masses. See pp. 351 and 363.
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Date Range:
1856
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3. 010095.de.56(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
010095.de.56(3)
Title:
Peak of Teneriffe from Orotava, on the northern coast. Photographer: Smyth, Charles Piazzi
Scope & Content:
Genre: Scientific Photography Facing p. 63. Stereographic view looking over the rooftops of La Orotava, towards the summit of Pico de Teide in the distance. See p. 403 for Smyth's notes on the difficulty of securing satisfactory photographs of distant scenes at this location.
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Date Range:
1856
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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.
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Date Range:
1856
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5. 010095.de.56(8)

Reference (shelfmark):
010095.de.56(8)
Title:
Trachyte blocks on Guajara. Photographer: Smyth, Charles Piazzi
Scope & Content:
Genre: Scientific Photography Stereoscopic view of rock formations, facing p. 193. These 'curiously stray blocks of greenstone, and of black lava,' are described on p. 167.
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Date Range:
1856
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1 item

6. 1753.b.29, Part 2(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
1753.b.29, Part 2(3)
Title:
Cottages at Aberglaslyn. Photographed by Francis Bedford. (Collodion process.) Photographer: Bedford, Francis
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of stone cottage at Aberglaslyn, with a rocky hill rising steeply in the background.
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Date Range:
c 1856
Extent:
1 item

7. 1758.b.6(10)

Reference (shelfmark):
1758.b.6(10)
Title:
In the Valley of Chamouni, Savoy. Photographer: Thompson, Stephen
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the valley, towards a village in the middleground and mountains and a glacier beyond, with figures posed in the foreground: 'A broken foreground of huge boulders; stones over which the mosses are gathering in their own gentle way, relieving the ch...
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Date Range:
c 1875
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1 item

8. 1781.b.39, 4(11)

Reference (shelfmark):
1781.b.39, 4(11)
Title:
The Wadee Feyran, Sinai. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Inscribed in the negative, 'Frith 176.' Genre: Landscape Photography View across the mountains of Sinai: 'The view portrays a very characteristic portion of the valley. A few stunted and weather-beaten tamarisks are here supported by the arid soil. In the foreground, and on the op...
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Date Range:
1857
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9. 1781.b.39, 5(13)

Reference (shelfmark):
1781.b.39, 5(13)
Title:
The Convent of Sinai and Plain of Er-Raha. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Inscribed in the negative, 'Frith 182.' Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the valley towards the walls of St Catherine's Monastery: 'In the view we look down the valley in which the convent stands towards the Plain of Er-Ráhà. The scene is strangely desolate. In the ...
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Date Range:
1857
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10. 1781.b.39, 8(24)

Reference (shelfmark):
1781.b.39, 8(24)
Title:
Mount Serbá, from the Wádee Feyrán. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Inscribed in the negative, 'Frith 177.' Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the valley floor towards the peaks of Gebel Serbal: 'In this view we see the mountain from the northward, as it rises beyond the sides of the valley, and the lower slopes leading towards it bas...
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Date Range:
1857
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1 item