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Photo, Print, Drawing Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg

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Title

  • Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg

Summary

  • Scenic views of archaeological sites, antiquities, mountains, rivers, historic buildings, monuments, and cities in Austria, Egypt, Germany, Greece, and Switzerland. A large number of photographs depict mountains, glaciers and passes in the Alps, including Chamonix-Mont Blanc, Finsteraarhorn, Jungfrau and Matterhorn, the Grindelwald Glacier, the Mythen Mountains and the Brenner Pass. Subjects include villages; tourist camps and hostels; health resorts; passes; mountain railroads; waterfalls; bridges; forts and fortifications; monuments and memorials; castles and palaces; temples; and ruins. The cities represented in Switzerland include Bad Pfäfers; Bad Ragaz; Bern; Brunnen; Engelberg; Fribourg; Geneva; Interlaken; Lucern; Pontresina; Zermatt; and Zurich; in Germany, Berchtesgaden and Cologne; in Austria, Badgastein, Salzburg, and Innsbruck; in Greece, Athens and Pireaus. The archaeological sites and antiquities depicted in Greece include the Acropolis; Parthenon; Temple of Athena Nike; the monument of Philopappus; Hephaisteion; in Egypt, the Temple of Hathor; Ramesseum; Gerf Hussein; Great Temple at Abu Sunbul; the pyramids; and the ruins at Karnak, Dendara, Philae, and Thebes. Also includes images of Ephesus, Turkey.

Names

  • Smallwood, Grahame T., donor
  • Bonfils, Félix, 1831-1885, photographer
  • Frith, Francis, photographer
  • Constantine, Dimitris, photographer
  • Sébah, Pascal, 1823-1886, photographer

Created / Published

  • 1850-1890.

Headings

  • -  Mountains--Europe--1850-1890
  • -  Glaciers--Europe--1850-1890
  • -  Passes (Landforms)--Europe--1850-1890
  • -  Villages--Europe--1850-1890
  • -  Lakes & ponds--Europe--1850-1890
  • -  Tourist camps & hostels--Europe--1850-1890
  • -  Health resorts--Europe--1850-1890
  • -  Bridges--Europe--1850-1890
  • -  Waterfalls--Europe--1850-1890
  • -  Mountain railroads--Switzerland--1850-1890
  • -  Forts & fortifications--Europe--1850-1890
  • -  Monuments & memorials--Europe--1850-1890
  • -  Sculpture--Europe--1850-1890
  • -  Temples--Greece--Athens--1850-1890
  • -  Temples--Egypt--1850-1890
  • -  Archaeological sites--Greece--Athens--1850-1890
  • -  Archaeological sites--Egypt--1850-1890
  • -  Antiquities--Greece--Athens--1850-1890
  • -  Antiquities--Egypt--1850-1890
  • -  Ruins--Greece--Athens--1850-1890
  • -  Pyramids--Egypt--1850-1890
  • -  Tombs & sepulchral monuments--Greece--Athens--1850-1890
  • -  Tombs & sepulchral monuments--Egypt--1850-1890
  • -  Ephesus (Extinct city)--1850-1890
  • -  Alps--1850-1890

Headings

  • Albumen prints--1850-1890.
  • Cityscape photographs--1850-1890.
  • Landscape photographs--1850-1890.
  • Photograph albums--1850-1890.

Genre

  • Albumen prints--1850-1890
  • Photograph albums--1850-1890
  • Landscape photographs--1850-1890
  • Cityscape photographs--1850-1890

Notes

  • -  Photographers represented include Francis Frith, Félix Bonfils, Dimitris Constantine, and Pascal Sebah.
  • -  Most captions handwritten on mounts.
  • -  Title taken from album cover.
  • -  Gift; Grahame T. Smallwood, Jr.; 1957.

Medium

  • 1 album (254 albumen prints) ; 40.5 x 51 cm. (album)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • LOT 7738 (H) [P&P]

Repository

  • Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 99405977

Online Format

  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Smallwood, Grahame T., Donor, Bonfils, Félix, Francis Frith, Dimitris Constantine, and Pascal Sébah, photographer. Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg. Athens Greece Egypt Europe Alps Ephesus Switzerland Extinct City, 1850. to 1890. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/99405977/.

APA citation style:

Smallwood, G. T., Bonfils, F., Frith, F., Constantine, D. & Sébah, P., photographer. (1850) Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg. Athens Greece Egypt Europe Alps Ephesus Switzerland Extinct City, 1850. to 1890. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/99405977/.

MLA citation style:

Smallwood, Grahame T., Donor, photographers by Bonfils, Félix, et al. Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg. to 1890. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/99405977/>.