Khan Minyeh, the reputed site if Ancient Capernaum. Photographer: Bedford, Francis
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Inscription: Inscribed in the negative, 'Ancient Capernaum. April 21/62. 83. F. Bedford.' Genre: Landscape Photography View looking towards river and cliffs.
Banias. The upper source of the Jordan, and Chapel of St. George. Photographer: Bedford, Francis
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Inscription: Inscribed in the negative, 'Banias.' Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the course of the river, with the double-arched entrance to the Chapel of St George set into the cliffs above.
Buildings and rocks near the temple of Dayr-el-Bahree — Thebes. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Inscription: Signed 'Frith' in the negative. Genre: Archaeological Photography View looking towards the sheer cliffs at Deir el-Bahri, with ruins in the foreground. Stereoscopic pair.
'La Saisiaz.' La Salève, overlooking the Arve and Rhone Valley. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along a ridge on Mont Salève, with the River Arve in the valley below and the Jura Mountains visible on the skyline in the distance. A chateau stands at the edge of the mountainside overlooking the Arve.
'La Saisiaz.' La Salève (nr. Geneva). Path up the Salève (the Arve river on the left). Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking up the mountain path towards sheer cliffs overlooking the River Arve: 'Browning in the opening lines of 'La Saisiaz' tells how after Miss Smith's death he had climbed the mountain alone, which they were to have ascended together.'
Gorge of Gondo, Switzerland. Photographer: Coghill, Joscelyn
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the sheer-sided ravine, with the road running beside the river at it bottom. Technical note: 'Taken on collodion, September 5, 1855, weather changeable; exposure one minute; developed with pyrogallic acid. Lens by F. S. Archer; focal length nine i...
Hung-Chuan. (‘Red Boats’ — the life-boats of the Yangtze). Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Landscape Photography Hand-coloured photogravure. View of two lifeboat junks with striped sails on the river, with cliffs to the right: ‘The life-boat service of the upper river was organised in the Ch’ing dynasty … Since the inauguration of the Republic, the continual internecine strife...