Lava arch.
Date: ca. 1900
Place: Hengill (Iceland)
Alpine Glaciers
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: “Of the three great classes referred to above, the most widely known is the alpine type, which derives its name from the mountains of central Europe, where it was first studied. Alpine glaciers occur about high peak and on the summits and flanks of mountain ranges in many parts of the world, but reach their most perfect development in temperate regions. The Himalayas, the Alps, the mountains of Scandinavia, the Southern Alps of New Zealand, the Cordilleras, etc., furnish well-known examples. Glaciers of this type originate as a rule in amphitheaters and cirques, partially surrounded by lofty peaks and overshadowing precipices, and flow through rugged valleys leading from them as winding ice rivers which carry the excess of snow falling on the mountains into the lower regions, where a higher mean annual temperature causes it to melt. They are essentially streams of ice, formed usually by the union of many branches, and end abruptly when the drainage changes from a solid to a liquid form.”
1915
View of curious gravel formations on the Lagudarsi stream at Koto Spiti
Artist: Samuel Bourne
Artist Bio: British, 1834 - 1912
Creation Date: 1867
Rock Carved by Drifting Sand, below Fortification Rock, Arizona (Wheeler Survey)
Artist: Timothy H. O’Sullivan, born Ireland 1840-died New York City 1882
Type: Photography-Photoprint
Date: 1871
Untitled (Yosemite Valley)
Artist: Carleton Watkins
Artist Bio: American, 1829 - 1916
Creation Date: 1865
7 Cambridge University, Trinity Hall Master’s Garden
This is part of an exhibit of 58 images from an original bound album of Cambridge University albumen prints that were taken for William Winfield, c. 1870.
