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[Photograph album of mountaineering in the French and Swiss Alps]

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Contributor
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
Work
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
Instance
Label
[Photograph album of mountaineering in the French and Swiss Alps]
Title
[Photograph album of mountaineering in the French and Swiss Alps]
Contributor
Photographer
Subject
Genre
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]
Instantiates
Production
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
Label
[Photograph album of mountaineering in the French and Swiss Alps]
Production
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

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