DISAPPEARING  LANDSCAPES

 As the global climate continues to warm, glaciers around the world are melting at an alarming rate. 

The photographs of glaciers from the 19th century serve as important historical records and documents of a rapidly changing landscape.

Photochrom Zurich, c. 1905, Pasterzenabsturz - Grossglockner

Photolithographic print

A.G. Landreth, c. 1913, Niagara Falls in winter. Silverbromide printing-out-paper

Anonymous c. 1900, Hikers on the Mont Blanc. 2232. Glacier des Bossons. Photogravure

J. Unterrainer, 1890s, Venedigerspitze. Cabinet card

Underwood & Underwood, 1897, The ascent of Jungfrau—crossing the glacier. Albumen print stereoview

A. Gabler, c. 1890s, Grindelwald, Grotte du glacier inférieur - Vues de la Suisse et d‘Italie. Collotype stereoview

Edit. Schröder & Co., Zurich, 1890s, 301. Grindelwald Grotte du Glacier. Collotype

H.C. White, 1904, Difficulties of mountain climbing—Crevasse in Elliot Glacier, Mt. Hood, Oregon, U.S.A. Collodion paper stereoview

From a Russian education set, Moscow, 1910, Eis-Spalten, Tatrageb. / Crevasses, Tatra Mountain Range.

Gelatin silver stereoview

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