Photography, American -- 19th century;Geological Survey (U.S.);Surveying;Yolo County (Calif.);Palmquist, Peter A. Carleton Watkins, photographer of the American West
Remarks: Variant in albumen reproduced in Carleton Watkins: Photographer of the American West (Palmquist, pl. 83)
Glaciers; Blanc, Mont (France and Italy); Photography of mountains -- Europe; Landscape photography -- Europe; Glacier des Bossons; Gorner Glacier; Aletsch Glacier
"[Illustrations are twenty-five heliotype] plates by the Heliotype Printing Co., Boston, from photographs by W.H. Jackson, Braun, Frith, Knudsen, Bourne & Shepard. A major example of heliotype printing and the first of what was to be a series. This...