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Reference (shelfmark):: 010095.de.56(14)
Title:: Euphorbia canariensis on the sea-coast of Orotava. Photographer: Smyth, Charles Piazzi
Scope & Content:: Genre: Scientific Photography Stereoscopic view a large euphorbia, facing p. 339, with two youths posed in the foreground.
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(16)
Title:: Young dragon-trees (Dracœna draco) near Orotava. Photographer: Smyth, Charles Piazzi
Scope & Content:: Genre: Scientific Photography Stereoscopic view, facing p. 373, of dragon trees on the property of Charles Smith.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1856
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 010095.de.56(17)
Title:: Dragon-tree walk at a palazzo near Orotava. Photographer: Smyth, Charles Piazzi
Scope & Content:: Genre: Scientific Photography Stereoscopic view, facing p. 391, looking along a path in the garden towards the house of Charles Smith, with a dragon tree on the left.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1856
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 010095.de.56(18)
Title:: Cochineal gatherers at Orotava. Photographer: Smyth, Charles Piazzi
Scope & Content:: Genre: Scientific Photography Stereoscopic view facing p. 405, of labourers at work gathering cochineal insects from cactus plants, taken in the garden of Charles Smith. With a dragon tree in the background.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1856
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 010095.de.56(19)
Title:: The 'Great Dragon-Tree' at the Villa de Orotava. Photographer: Smyth, Charles Piazzi
Scope & Content:: Genre: Scientific Photography Stereoscopic view of a large dragon tree in the garden of the property of the Marquis of Sauzal, facing p. 419 (and there described).
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(20)
Title:: Trunk of the great dragon-tree. Photographer: Smyth, Charles Piazzi
Scope & Content:: Genre: Scientific Photography Stereoscopic view, facing p. 427, of the base of the tree seen in print 19: 'On the masonry filling up the northern side, is standing our interpreter, the Vice-Consul's son, to afford a human scale of measure' (p. 427).
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1856
Extent:: 1 item

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:: 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

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