[Photograph album of a hiking trip to the Swiss Alps]

Resource Information

The work [Photograph album of a hiking trip to the Swiss Alps] represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in UCLA Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Still Image, Visual Materials.

Label

[Photograph album of a hiking trip to the Swiss Alps]

Creator

• Pigott, Jane M

Photographer

• Pigott, Jane M

Subject

• Cartwright, Ethel, active 1910-1913 -- Photographs
• Sion (Switzerland) -- Photographs
• Glaciers -- Switzerland | Alps, Swiss -- Photographs
• Photographic prints
• Photograph albums
• Cows -- Switzerland | Alps, Swiss -- Photographs
• Pigott, Jane M, active 1910-1913 -- Photographs
• Gelatin silver prints
• Ouchy (Lausanne, Switzerland) -- Photographs
• Women mountaineers -- Switzerland | Alps, Swiss -- Photographs
• Hikers -- Switzerland | Alps, Swiss -- Photographs
• Alps, Swiss (Switzerland) -- Photographs
• Brig (Switzerland) -- Photographs
• Cartwright, Mildred, active 1910-1913 -- Photographs
• Postcards
• Alps, Swiss (Switzerland) -- Pictorial works
• Mountain goat -- Switzerland | Alps, Swiss -- Photographs
• Hiking -- Switzerland | Alps, Swiss -- Photographs

Genre

• Photograph albums
• Gelatin silver prints
• Photographic prints
• Photographs
• Pictorial works
• Postcards

Language

eng

Summary

Photograph album of postcards and Kodak photos assembled by Jane M. Pigott of Hartley, Bourton-on-the Water, England, documenting a hiking trip to the Swiss Alps with two frieinds, Mildred and Ethel Cartwright, July 8-Aug. 7, 1913.

Cataloging source

CLU

Characteristic

picture

Summary expansion

The postcards and photos are presented in chronological order, with detailed captions and entries for each day, describing the walks, the mountains viewed, and notes on food and accomodations. The group leaves Victoria Station in London on July 8, travelling through Paris, Lausanne, Ouchy, Sion, and Fiesch to reach the Hotel Jungfrau , Eggishorn which will be their base. The ladies often dine or take tea at the nearby Bettmerhorn Restaurant. Their daily walks take them to the Eggishorn, Bettmeralp, Riederalp, the Fiescher Glacier, the Ober-Aletsch Glacier, and the Märjelensee, and along the way Jane Pigott uses a Kodak 1-A camera to take pictures of the peaks, the rocky and snow-covered Alpine trails, the peasants' rough chalets, cows and goats roaming the hillsides, and a group of old and young women with large wicker baskets on their backs. The ladies spend the days hiking, eating picnic lunches by the trail, reading, sketching, and photographing the views. Pigott leaves her two friends on Aug. 7, 1913, and heads back to London, taking a carriage to Brique, and the train to Calais. Also included in the album are enlargements of two of the small photos, and a panorama postcard of the peaks near Eggishorn, printed by Julien frères of Geneva

Technique

not applicable