Description: |
Sepia photographic print approximately 11 cm x 8 cm showing a distant mountain range, with trees or shrubs in the foreground. Annotated on the back in ink in the same unknown hand as that on the photo of corrugated basalt at Siebengebrige and other photos in WP17/8 "Views from Puy Nugere, Auvergne." (Puy de la Nugere is an extinct volcano). 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: Auvergne France Notes: In envelope marked "Geological & Glacial | Photos - | Ananda C. Swamy. | Aarschlucht" when listed. |