The Resource [Photograph album of mountaineering in the French and Swiss Alps]
[Photograph album of mountaineering in the French and Swiss Alps]
Resource Information
The item [Photograph album of mountaineering in the French and Swiss Alps] represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in UCLA Library.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
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The item [Photograph album of mountaineering in the French and Swiss Alps] represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in UCLA Library.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
- Summary
- Collection of 97 albumen photographs--some loose, some mounted in an album--of scenes of mountain climbing in the French and Swiss Alps, dated between 1872 and 1887.
- Language
- fre
- Extent
- 1 album (97 photographic prints)
- Note
-
- Title supplied by cataloger
- The 60 photographs in the album are mounted two to a page within rectangular frames on rectos and versos of 15 leaves of thick white cardboard; without captions. The 37 loose cabinet cards and snapshots are housed in mylar sleeves and bound as a separate volume
- Album has elaborate carved brown leather boards, featuring a raised shield-shaped ornament within a scalloped niche on both covers; two pairs of metal clasps; inner gilt dentelles; all edges gilt. Affixed to front pastedown is the ticket of Imprimerie A. Gouefon, rue Bannier 37, Orleans
- Part of the Photograph Album Collection (Collection 94) in Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA
- Label
- [Photograph album of mountaineering in the French and Swiss Alps]
- Title
- [Photograph album of mountaineering in the French and Swiss Alps]
- Subject
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- Mountaineers -- France -- Photographs
- Photographic prints
- Photograph albums
- Waterfalls -- France -- Photographs
- Grindelwald Glacier (Switzerland) -- Photographs
- Blanc, Mont (France and Italy) -- Photographs
- Interlaken (Switzerland) -- Photographs
- Vitznau (Switzerland) -- Photographs
- Glaciers -- Switzerland -- Photographs
- Mountaineering guides (Persons) -- France -- Photographs
- Territet-Glion Funicular Railway (Montreux, Switzerland) -- Photographs
- Mountaineering -- France -- Photographs
- Railroads, Cable -- Switzerland -- Photographs
- Jungfrau (Switzerland) -- Photographs
- Albumen prints
- Mountain railroads -- Switzerland -- Photographs
- Saint-Gervais-les-Bains (France) -- Photographs
- Mountaineering guides (Persons) -- Switzerland -- Photographs
- Alps, Swiss (Switzerland) -- Photographs
- Huts -- France | Alps, French -- Photographs
- Rigi Mountain (Switzerland) -- Photographs
- Rack-railroads -- Switzerland -- Photographs
- Mountaineers -- Switzerland -- Photographs
- Mountaineering -- Switzerland -- Photographs
- Glaciers -- France -- Photographs
- Glacial crevasses -- France | Alps, French -- Photographs
- Cabinet photographs
- Glacial crevasses -- Switzerland | Alps, Swiss -- Photographs
- Huts -- Switzerland | Alps, Swiss -- Photographs
- Alps, French (France) -- Photographs
- Grindelwald (Switzerland) -- Photographs
- Language
- fre
- Summary
- Collection of 97 albumen photographs--some loose, some mounted in an album--of scenes of mountain climbing in the French and Swiss Alps, dated between 1872 and 1887.
- Cataloging source
- CLU
- Characteristic
- picture
- Summary expansion
- The loose photographs are primarily cabinet cards which consist of paper photographs mounted on thick cardboard mounts having gilt beveled edges, rounded corners, and usually, photographer studio advertisements on verso. There are 29 large cards (11x17 cm) and the 6 small cards (10x13 cm), most with printed or hand-written captions on front or back. The images document travels and climbs in the French Alps, including Mont Blanc near Chamonix and St. Gervais-les-Bains, and Aiguille du Dru and Mer de Glace near Montenvert; and in the Swiss Alps, Grindelwald and Jungfrau near Interlaken and the Lauterbrunen valley, Mt. Rigi near Vitznau and Lake Lucerne, and Rothhorn and Weisshorn near Riffelalp. Many of the photos are landscape views of the peaks, valleys, crevasses, glaciers, and lakes of the regions, and there are also numerous shots of climbers in their gear, with ice picks, axes, ladders, walking sticks, ropes, and telescopes. Several views show alpine huts, mountain hotels, such as Grand Hotel Montenvert, and the railroad station in Kleine Scheideck. Also of interest are views of the Rigi cog railroad and the funicular (cable) railway in Montreux. The statue in Chamonix of Horace Bénédict Saussure and Jacques Balmat commemorating the centenary of the ascent of Mont Blanc (by Balmat in 1786 and by Saussure in 1787) was taken by August Couttet of Chamonix, one of the well-known Alpine photographers represented in the collection. Other photographers include August Garcin and Florentin Charnaux of Geneva; Arthur Gabler of Interlaken; Joseph Tairraz of Chamonix; Adolphe Braun & Cie. of Dornach (Alsace); Numa Allantaz of Saint-Gervais-les-Bains, and Viron of Lourdes, whose view is included of the route from Pierrefitte to Cauterets in the French Pyrenees south of Lourdes. With the cabinet cards are two amateur snapshots of members of a climbing party, one dated July 1878. Many of the 60 small photographs in the album are smaller versions of the cabinet card images, documenting an ascent of Mont Blanc in July 1878, or slightly different shots of the landscapes portrayed in the cabinet cards. The album includes several portraits of women climbers and women guides
- Technique
- not applicable
- Label
- [Photograph album of mountaineering in the French and Swiss Alps]
- Note
-
- Title supplied by cataloger
- The 60 photographs in the album are mounted two to a page within rectangular frames on rectos and versos of 15 leaves of thick white cardboard; without captions. The 37 loose cabinet cards and snapshots are housed in mylar sleeves and bound as a separate volume
- Album has elaborate carved brown leather boards, featuring a raised shield-shaped ornament within a scalloped niche on both covers; two pairs of metal clasps; inner gilt dentelles; all edges gilt. Affixed to front pastedown is the ticket of Imprimerie A. Gouefon, rue Bannier 37, Orleans
- Part of the Photograph Album Collection (Collection 94) in Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- black and white
- Content category
- still image
- Content type code
- sti
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 16 x 23 cm (album)
- Extent
- 1 album (97 photographic prints)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Note
- Spec. Coll. copy: in modern beige cloth clamshell case. Purchase, Walkabout Books, 2017, with funds from the Francis P. Farquhar Mountaineering Collection and Endowment Fund.
- Other physical details
- albumen
- Primary support material
- paper
- Secondary support material
- paper
- Specific material designation
- photoprint
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)994874928
- ucoclc994874928
- Label
- [Photograph album of mountaineering in the French and Swiss Alps]
- Note
-
- Title supplied by cataloger
- The 60 photographs in the album are mounted two to a page within rectangular frames on rectos and versos of 15 leaves of thick white cardboard; without captions. The 37 loose cabinet cards and snapshots are housed in mylar sleeves and bound as a separate volume
- Album has elaborate carved brown leather boards, featuring a raised shield-shaped ornament within a scalloped niche on both covers; two pairs of metal clasps; inner gilt dentelles; all edges gilt. Affixed to front pastedown is the ticket of Imprimerie A. Gouefon, rue Bannier 37, Orleans
- Part of the Photograph Album Collection (Collection 94) in Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- black and white
- Content category
- still image
- Content type code
- sti
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 16 x 23 cm (album)
- Extent
- 1 album (97 photographic prints)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Note
- Spec. Coll. copy: in modern beige cloth clamshell case. Purchase, Walkabout Books, 2017, with funds from the Francis P. Farquhar Mountaineering Collection and Endowment Fund.
- Other physical details
- albumen
- Primary support material
- paper
- Secondary support material
- paper
- Specific material designation
- photoprint
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)994874928
- ucoclc994874928
Subject
- Albumen prints
- Alps, French (France) -- Photographs
- Alps, Swiss (Switzerland) -- Photographs
- Blanc, Mont (France and Italy) -- Photographs
- Cabinet photographs
- Glacial crevasses -- France | Alps, French -- Photographs
- Glacial crevasses -- Switzerland | Alps, Swiss -- Photographs
- Glaciers -- France -- Photographs
- Glaciers -- Switzerland -- Photographs
- Grindelwald (Switzerland) -- Photographs
- Grindelwald Glacier (Switzerland) -- Photographs
- Huts -- France | Alps, French -- Photographs
- Huts -- Switzerland | Alps, Swiss -- Photographs
- Interlaken (Switzerland) -- Photographs
- Jungfrau (Switzerland) -- Photographs
- Mountain railroads -- Switzerland -- Photographs
- Mountaineering -- France -- Photographs
- Mountaineering -- Switzerland -- Photographs
- Mountaineering guides (Persons) -- France -- Photographs
- Mountaineering guides (Persons) -- Switzerland -- Photographs
- Mountaineers -- France -- Photographs
- Mountaineers -- Switzerland -- Photographs
- Photograph albums
- Photographic prints
- Rack-railroads -- Switzerland -- Photographs
- Railroads, Cable -- Switzerland -- Photographs
- Rigi Mountain (Switzerland) -- Photographs
- Saint-Gervais-les-Bains (France) -- Photographs
- Territet-Glion Funicular Railway (Montreux, Switzerland) -- Photographs
- Vitznau (Switzerland) -- Photographs
- Waterfalls -- France -- Photographs
Genre
Library Locations
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Charles E. Young Research LibraryBorrow it280 Charles E Young Dr N, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1575, US34.0749691 -118.441466
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UCLA LibraryBorrow itLos Angeles, CA, US
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UCLA Library Special CollectionsBorrow itA1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1575, US34.0749691 -118.441466
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