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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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