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
Edit. Schröder & Co., Zurich, 1890s, 301. Grindelwald Grotte du Glacier. Collotype
Anonymous c. 1900, Hikers on the Mont Blanc. 2232. Glacier des Bossons. Photogravure
A.G. Landreth, c. 1913, Niagara Falls in winter. Silverbromide printing-out-paper
J. Unterrainer, 1890s, Venedigerspitze. Cabinet card
Underwood & Underwood, 1897, The ascent of Jungfrau—crossing the glacier. Albumen print stereoview
H.C. White, 1904, Difficulties of mountain climbing—Crevasse in Elliot Glacier, Mt. Hood, Oregon, U.S.A. Collodion paper stereoview
A. Gabler, c. 1890s, Grindelwald, Grotte du glacier inférieur - Vues de la Suisse et d‘Italie. Collotype stereoview
From a Russian education set, Moscow, 1910, Eis-Spalten, Tatrageb. /
Crevasses, Tatra Mountain Range. Gelatin silver stereoview
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