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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(15)
Title:: Young dragon-trees and date palm in a cactus garden near Orotava. Photographer: Smyth, Charles Piazzi
Scope & Content:: Genre: Scientific Photography Stereoscopic view, facing p. 357, of plants in the garden, with buildings beyond. The garden is described at p. 413.
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(7)
Title:: Second mate of yacht observing radiation thermometers on Mount Guajara. Photographer: Smyth, Charles Piazzi
Scope & Content:: Genre: Scientific Photography Stereoscopic view, facing p. 173, showing the second mate, standing among scientific equipment: 'To chronicle the exact circumstances under which these high results appeared, the photographic camera was employed with effect. Accordingly in Stereograph, No. 7, may b...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1856
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 010095.de.56(11)
Title:: Close view of Alta Vista observing station, from the east − altitude 10,702 feet. Photographer: Smyth, Charles Piazzi
Scope & Content:: Genre: Scientific Photography Stereoscopic view, facing p. 283, looking towards the low stone buildings of the observing station, with a telescope visible on the left behind the wall, and a large block of lava in the foreground. The station is described at pp. 284-285.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1856
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 010095.de.56(5)
Title:: Sheepshanks telescope first erected on Mount Guajara, the peak of Teneriffe in the distance. Photographer: Smyth, Charles Piazzi
Scope & Content:: Genre: Scientific Photography Stereoscopic view, facing p. 131, showing the erected telescope, with two figures posed among the equipment at the base.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1856
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 010095.de.56(4)
Title:: Tent scene on Mount Guajara, 8903 feet high. Photographer: Smyth, Charles Piazzi
Scope & Content:: Genre: Scientific Photography Stereoscopic view, facing p. 103 and showing tents, a telescope and other equipment, with a female figure (Mrs Jessie Smyth), posed among the impedimenta: 'At the back, and on either side of the tent, ran dwarf stone walls, to keep off the wind; the narrow interven...
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(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(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
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1856
Extent:: 1 item

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