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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...
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. Add MS 70650 A(145)

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 70650 A(145)
Title:
Our camp. Halfway up Mt. Demavend. Photographer: Parkin, Leslie Ea.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Snapshot view looking towards the summit of the dormant volcano. Mount Demavend is situated 45 miles north-east of Tehran. The print is signed 'Leslie Ea. Parkin' and dated on the reverse.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1915
Extent:
1 item

9. Godwin Photo 6/2(183)

Reference (shelfmark):
Godwin Photo 6/2(183)
Title:
Barbican Exhibition Print: Devastation Hill, Volcanoes National Park, 1988. Photographer: Godwin, Fay
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Square format print of the view to the summit of a dark volcanic mound with dead, gnarled and bleached branches lying on the ground. Mounted on card 505 x 404 mm, inscribed '183/6850.1' and '1'. Exhibited in Barbican Gallery, Room Six (Hawaii). Published in 'Landmar...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1988
Extent:
1 item

10. Godwin Photo 6/2(184)

Reference (shelfmark):
Godwin Photo 6/2(184)
Title:
Barbican Exhibition Print: Lava, Volcanoes National Park, 1992. Photographer: Godwin, Fay
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Square format print of a close-up section of the wrinkled patterns formed in solidified lava. Mounted on card 505 x 404 mm, inscribed '184/ 7385.18' and '2'. Exhibited in Barbican Gallery, Room Six (Hawaii). Published in 'Landmarks: A Survey' (Stockport: Dewi Lewis ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1992
Extent:
1 item

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