Archive Reference (shelfmark): 1783.cc.20 / Subject: Water transport / Level: [40] File - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.20(1)
Title:: [River launch 'Explorador' beached beside a river at an unknown location.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: This view appears to be unconnected with the Frisch photographs that comprise the bulk of the album.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1869
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.20(4)
Title:: Tonantins (rive gauche). 3me. Station des bateaux à vapeur, située sur le lac du même nom, contenant 15 maisons et 60 habitants, avec le vapeur de la ligne Icamiaba et le bateau du photographe, qui a fait 400 lieues de route sur l'Amazonas et ses confluents en 5 mois de temps, lui et 2 hommes. Photographer: Frisch, Albert
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the riverbank towards the houses of the village, with the paddle steamer 'Icamiaba' moored in the background. The photographer's own covered canoe, mentioned in the caption and also seen in print 50, is moored against the bank in the foreground.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1865
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.20(8)
Title:: Japurá (rive gauche). Grande rivière, venant de la Nouvelle Granade; avec un bateau chargé de ce pays, en route depuis 12 mois pour se rendre à Coari; y vendre ses produits et remonter ensuite l'Iça pour s'en retourner. Photographer: Frisch, Albert
Scope & Content:: Close view of a covered trading canoe on the Japurá river, paddled by Indians and with the overseer standing amidships. The Japurá rises in Colombia and flows eastwards to join the Solimões (Amazon) above Tefé.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1865
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.20(9)
Title:: Manáos. Le port. 8me. station de la Compagnie. Photographer: Frisch, Albert
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the bank of the Rio Negro towards the houses of Manaus, with small craft moored along the riverbank. Manaus is situated just above the confluence of the Rio Negro and the Amazon.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1865
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.20(12)
Title:: Bateliers Boliviens, s'embarquant dans le port de Manáos. Photographer: Frisch, Albert
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Riverside scene at Manaus, showing Bolivian boatmen and their families climbing aboard a large wooden canoe drawn up beside the bank of the Rio Negro.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1865
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.20(15)
Title:: [Photographic copy of illustrations of Indian boats from the Rio Madeira, Brazil.] Photographer: Frisch, Albert
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Photographic copy of a page of (?)watercolour illustrations from an undated report of an ethnographic and archaeological expedition to the Rio Madeira. See note at print 14.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1869
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.20(50)
Title:: Tarumá. Confluent du Rio Negro, avec le canot du photographe. Photographer: Frisch, Albert
Scope & Content:: View showing Frisch's boat moored near his campsite on the bank of the Rio Negro at Tarumá, in the area of the confluence with the Amazon, near Manaus. The bearded European figure seated in the stern of the boat is presumably Frisch himself.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1865
Extent:: 1 item

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