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Sepia photographic print approximately 11 cm x 8 cm, annotated on the back in ink in an unknown hand " 'corrugated' basalt, oelberg | Siebengebrige". Showing a cliff face of basalt columns leaning to the viewer's left, with a man in a dark suit and hat standing in the left foreground. (Siebengebrige mountains, West Germany). Undated. Possibly c. 1893, when A. R. Wallace was writing on glaciation (See WP1/2/39, letter to Violet Wallace 8 October 1893). Photographer unknown. Place: Germany Notes: In envelope marked "Geological & Glacial | Photos - | Ananda C. Swamy. | Aarschlucht" when listed. The hand is on the back of other photos. It is NOT that of William Mitten (checked against a letter of his). |
