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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:
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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:
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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:
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Date Range:
1856
Extent:
1 item

4. 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.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
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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:
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Date Range:
1856
Extent:
1 item

6. 010358.f.27(102)

Reference (shelfmark):
010358.f.27(102)
Title:
Sheffield. Stanedge Rocks. Photographer: Smith, Theophilus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along a path on the moors, towards the outcrop of rocks.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
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Date Range:
c 1865
Extent:
1 item

7. 74/Cup.652.m.2, 2(85)

Reference (shelfmark):
74/Cup.652.m.2, 2(85)
Title:
Première Cataracte. Montagnes granitiques couvertes de sable [First Cataract of the Nile, sand-covered granite hills]. Photographer: Teynard, Félix
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of the barren rocky landscape of the First Cataract.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1851-1852
Extent:
1 item

8. 74/Cup.652.m.2, 2(110)

Reference (shelfmark):
74/Cup.652.m.2, 2(110)
Title:
Tâfah (Taphis). Rochers garnitiques sur les rives du Nil [Granite boulders on the banks of the Nile, Tafa]. Photographer: Teynard, Félix
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View from a hillside looking down onto the Nile.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
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Date Range:
1851-1852
Extent:
1 item

9. 1347.f.21(143)

Reference (shelfmark):
1347.f.21(143)
Title:
The Bowder Stone, Borrowdale. Photographer: Ogle, Thomas
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Circular image. View of the massive boulder, with a ladder on the left, situated in the Borrowdale Valley near Grange at the south end of Derwent Water.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
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Date Range:
c 1864
Extent:
1 item

10. 1758.b.6(16)

Reference (shelfmark):
1758.b.6(16)
Title:
Crookhorn Cavern, Ilfracombe. Photographer: Thompson, Stephen
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the beach at low water, towards the cave and surrounding rock face.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1875
Extent:
1 item

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