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Archive Reference (shelfmark) 010095.de.56 Subject Land Level [40] File

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
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Date Range:
1856
Extent:
1 item

3. 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.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
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Date Range:
1856
Extent:
1 item

4. 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
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Date Range:
1856
Extent:
1 item

5. 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.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
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Date Range:
1856
Extent:
1 item

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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