Glacier Collection (page 4)

Mer de Glace from the Chapeau, near Chamonix, France. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
Mer de Glace from the Chapeau, near Chamonix, France. Stereoscopic card detail

Aletsch Glacier and Marjelen Lake, Switzerland. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
Aletsch Glacier and Marjelen Lake, Switzerland. Stereoscopic card detail

View of the Matterhorn, late 19th century. The Matterhorn was first climbed in 1865 by Edward Whymper, Charles Hudson, Lord Francis Douglas, Douglas Hadow

The Shchurovskiy Glacier, Russia, 1895. From The Universal Geography with Illustrations and Maps, division XII, written by Elisee Reclus and published by Virtue & Co. Limited (London, 1895)

Hoher Dachstein, Salzkammergut, Austria, c1900s. Artist: Wurthle & Sons
Hoher Dachstein, Salzkammergut, Austria, c1900s. Stereoscopic card. Detail

Grossglockner, Hohe Tauern, Austria, c1900s. Artist: Wurthle & Sons
Grossglockner, Hohe Tauern, Austria, c1900s. Grossgluckner is the tallest mountain in Austria. The Hohe Tauern, the highest range of the Alps east of the Brenner Pass

Peasant farmers haymaking at the glacier foot, Switzerland. 1936. Artist: F Hutzli
Peasant farmers haymaking at the glacier foot, Switzerland. 1936. From Peoples of the World in Pictures, edited by Harold Wheeler, published by Odhams Press Ltd (London, 1936)

Sindh Valley glaciers, Kashmir, India, early 20th century. Artist: F Bremner
Sindh Valley glaciers, Kashmir, India, early 20th century. Glaciers in what is now Pakistan

Muir Glacier, Alaska, USA, 1893. Artist: John L Stoddard
Muir Glacier, Alaska, USA, 1893. Illustration from Portfolio of Photographs of Famous Cities, Scenes and Paintings, (The Werner Company, Chicago, c1893)

The Mer De Glace, Switzerland, 1893. Artist: John L Stoddard
The Mer De Glace, Switzerland, 1893. Illustration from Portfolio of Photographs of Famous Cities, Scenes and Paintings, (The Werner Company, Chicago, c1893)

Source of the Ganges, India, c1840. Artist: N Remond
Source of the Ganges, India, c1840. The River Ganges originates at Gangotri Glacier, Uttarakhand

The Wellhorn and the Rosenlaui Glacier, Switzerland, 19th century. Artist: C Laplante
The Wellhorn and the Rosenlaui Glacier, Switzerland, 19th century

Lake of the Hanging Glaciers, Canada, c1920s. Cigarette card produced by the Westminster Tobacco Co Ltd, Canada 2nd series

Yoho Glacier, Rocky Mountains, Canada, c1920s. Cigarette card produced by the Westminster Tobacco Co Ltd, Canada 1st series

Crossing a Heavy Ice-Pack at the Head of Wellington Channel, 1877

The discovered corpse of Lieutenant Bujon, French Alps, 1891. Artist: Henri Meyer
The discovered corpse of Lieutenant Bujon, French Alps, 1891. Bujon was a French soldier killed in a mountaineering accident on the Aiguille de Chambeyron on 16th August 1891

Carolus Linnaeus, 18th century Swedish scientist and naturalist, 1874. Linnaeus (Carl von Linne) (1707-1778), the founder of the modern system of plant

Eyjafjallajokull Glacier lake, Iceland, 20th century. Artist: CM Dixon
Eyjafjallajokull Glacier lake, Iceland, 20th century. One of the smaller ice caps of Iceland, covering the caldera of a volcano with a summit elevation of 1, 651 metres (5, 417 ft)

Kaldakvisl with a view towards Hofsjokull (ice-cap), Central Iceland, 20th century. Artist: CM Dixon
Kaldakvisl with a view towards Hofsjokull (ice-cap), Central Iceland, 20th century. Hofsjokull is the third largest glacier in Iceland and the largest active volcano in the country

Mount Shasta, northern peak of the Sierra Nevada, California, USA, c1870

Rush Creek Glacier, on the eastern slopes of the Sierra Nevada, California, USA, 1875. Wood engraving from an article of 1875 by John Muir (1838-1914)

Shelter built by the glaciologist Louis Agassiz, Aar glacier, Switzerland, 1840 (1885). Agassizs studies of glaciers in the Alps led him to be the first to propose the theory that the Earth had been

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