[Heliotype illustrations of glaciers in Illustrations of the earth's surface]

Item Information

Title:
[Heliotype illustrations of glaciers in Illustrations of the earth's surface]
Description:
"[Illustrations are twenty-five heliotype] plates by the Heliotype Printing Co., Boston, from photographs by W.H. Jackson, Braun, Frith, Knudsen, Bourne & Shepard. A major example of heliotype printing and the first of what was to be a series. This seems to have been the only publication to make it to press."--Hanson Collection catalog, p. 72
Contributor:
Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate, 1841-1906. Illustrations of the earth's surface, Glaciers
Contributor:
Davis, William Morris, 1850-1934
Contributor:
Braun, Adolphe, 1811-1877
Contributor:
Frith, Francis
Contributor:
Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942
Contributor:
Heliotype Printing Co
Contributor:
F. Frith & Co
Contributor:
Knudsen, Knud, 1832-1915
Contributor:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Contributor:
Bourne & Shepherd
Date:
1881
Format:
Photographs
Genre:
Heliotypes
Location:
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
Collection (local):
David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction
Subjects:
Glaciers
Blanc, Mont (France and Italy)
Photography of mountains--Europe
Landscape photography--Europe
Glacier des Bossons
Gorner Glacier
Aletsch Glacier
Extent:
25 photomechanical prints : heliotypes ; 36 x 29 cm
Link to Item:
http://maca.contentdm.oclc.org/u?/p1325coll1,3621
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Publisher:
Boston : J.R. Osgood and company, 1881
Language:
English
Notes:
Forms part of the David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction
In: Illustrations of the earth's surface : Glaciers / by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler ... and William Morris Davis. Boston : J.R. Osgood and company, 1881 -- Title supplied by cataloger
Identifier:
D.A.H.Cat., 1881:14
NE2606 S43