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Peyton Falls, Alleghany County, Virginia, 1864. Creator: Mason Jackson
Peyton Falls, Alleghany County, Virginia, 1864. Engraving of a '...sketch, by an amateur artist, of Peyton Falls, in the Alleghany Mountains, Western Virginia

The Valparaiso and Santiago Railway: the Maquis Viaduct, 1864. Creator: Mason Jackson
The Valparaiso and Santiago Railway: the Maquis Viaduct, 1864. Engraving from a drawing by Mr. Boulet, of '...one of the highest railways in the world

The Valparaiso and Santiago Railway: the Tabon Incline, 1864. Creator: Mason Jackson
The Valparaiso and Santiago Railway: the Tabon Incline, 1864. Engraving from a drawing by Mr. Boulet, a draughtsman '...of the Chilian Government, of...one of the highest railways in the world

Partenkirchen in Bavaria at Sunrise, 1860. Creator: Karl Millner
Partenkirchen in Bavaria at Sunrise, 1860. Germany's highest mountain, Zugspitze, is 2, 962 metres (9, 718 ft) above sea level

Bureau of Reclamation - Shoshone Dam, Wyoming, Highest in World, 1912. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Bureau of Reclamation - Shoshone Dam, Wyoming, Highest in World, 1912

Ace of Spades, 1925. From De La Rue & Cos Pneumatic Playing Cards. [Thomas De La Rue & Co. London, 1925]

Ben Nevis, mid 19th century, (1946). Creator: William Turner
Ben Nevis, mid 19th century, (1946). View of Ben Nevis in the Highlands of Scotland, the highest mountain in the British Isles. From " British Mountaineers", by F. S. Smythe

The Worlds Highest Bridge Spanning the Royal Gorge, near Canon City, Colo. c1930s. Royal Gorge suspension bridge built November 1929 over a canyon of the Arkansas River was the highest bridge in

Ben Nevis and Inverlochy Castle, 1898. Creator: Unknown
Ben Nevis and Inverlochy Castle, 1898. Inverlochy Castle, a ruined 13th-century castle on the south bank of the River Lochy

The Hochtor, Johnsbach, Gesause National Park, Styria, Austria, c1935. Creator: Unknown
The Hochtor, Johnsbach, Gesause National Park, Styria, Austria, c1935. The Hochtor, at 2, 369 metres (7, 772 feet), is the highest mountain in the Ennstaler Alps

Mountain view at Schoneck on the Grossglockner High Alpine Road, Austria, c1935. People stop to admire the Alps from their charabanc

The Kaiser-Franz-Josefs-Hohe look-out point on the Grossglockner High Alpine Road, Austria, c1935. Stopping place offering panoramic views

Glocknerhaus on the Grossglockner High Alpine Road, Austria, c1935. Creator: Unknown
Glocknerhaus on the Grossglockner High Alpine Road, Austria, c1935. The Groszglocknerstrasze, named after the Groszglockner, Austrias highest mountain

The Church of St Vincent, Heiligenblut am GroBglockner, Austria, c1935. Creator: Unknown
The Church of St Vincent, Heiligenblut am Groszglockner, Austria, c1935. The town of Heiligenblut (Holy Blood) am Groszglockner lies at the foot of the Grossglockner, the highest mountain in Austria

Start of the Grossglockner High Alpine Road, Fusch an der GroBglocknerstraBe
Start of the Grossglockner High Alpine Road, Fusch an der Groszglocknerstrasze, Austria, c1935. The Groszglocknerstrasze, named after the Groszglockner, Austrias highest mountain

Look-out point at Hochmais on the Grossglockner Alpine Road, Austria, c1935. Creator: Unknown
Look-out point at Hochmais on the Grossglockner High Alpine Road, Austria, c1935. People get out of their charabancs to admire the Alps

The Krimml Waterfalls, High Tauern National Park, Austria, c1935. Creator: Unknown
The Krimml Waterfalls, High Tauern National Park, Austria, c1935. The Krimmlerfalle, in Salzburg state, are the highest waterfalls in Austria with a total height of 380 metres (1, 247 feet)

Obergurgl, Tyrol, Austria, c1935. Creator: Unknown
Obergurgl, Tyrol, Austria, c1935. The ski resort village of Obergurgl, at 1, 930 metres (6, 330 feet), is the highest parish in Austria

Beachy Head from Beach, 1929. Creator: Unknown
Beachy Head from Beach, 1929. The highest chalk sea cliff in Britain, formed in the Late Cretaceous era

Salisbury, c1910. Creator: Unknown
Salisbury, c1910. The Cathedral spire the loftiest in Great Britain. Population, 14, 792. The majority of Salisbury Cathedral in Wiltshire was built between 1220 and 1266

Fujiyama, The Sacred Mountain, from Jedzumi Village, Japan, 1895. Creator: Unknown
Fujiyama, The Sacred Mountain, from Jedzumi Village, Japan, 1895. View of Mount Fuji, which at 3, 776.24 metres (12, 389 feet) is the highest volcano in Japan

The Figure in Panyer Alley, 1897. Creator: Unknown
The Figure in Panyer Alley, 1897. A stone monument, near St Pauls Cathedral in London, shows a boy seated on an upturned basket (or panyer), with the inscription: When ye have sought the City Round

Highest Camp in Antarctica - Active Crater, c1912, (1913). Artist: Raymond E Priestley
Highest Camp in Antarctica - Active Crater, c1912, (1913). The final expedition of British Antarctic explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912)

Puig Major, Mallorca, Spain. Puig Major (1445 metres) is the highest mountain on the island of Mallorca

Ace of Spades from a deck of Goodall & Son Ltd. playing cards, c1940. [Goodall & Son Ltd. London, c1940]

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

Heiligenblut and Grossglockner, Austria, c1900s. Artist: Wurthle & Sons
Heiligenblut and Grossglockner, Austria, c1900s. Grossgluckner is the highest mountain in Austria. Stereoscopic card. Detail

The tallest obelisk in Egypt, in the temple at Karnak, Thebes, Egypt, 1905. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
The tallest obelisk in Egypt, in the temple at Karnak, Thebes, Egypt, 1905. As it now stands, the great obelisk is 97.5 feet high and 8.5 feet square at the base, being the largest now in Egypt

The electric light at Hell Gate, New York, 1885. The highest electric light in the world. Illustration from the The Graphic, (23 May 1885)

The Brocken, or Blocksberg, Harz Mountains, Germany, c1890. An engraving from Robert Browns The Countries of the World, published by Cassell, (London & Paris, c1890)

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