Sir Charles Lyell, Geologist
1869 (ca)
Carte de visite
Wisconsin Historical Society
Increase Allen Lapham: Papers, 1825-1930, carte-de-visite collection, WHS Image id: WHi-45315
LL/32885 [Further details available]
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Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, Geologist
1864 (ca)
Carte de visite
Wisconsin Historical Society
Increase Allen Lapham: Papers, 1825-1930, carte-de-visite collection, WHS Image id: WHi-44730
LL/32879 [Further details available]
2 of 55
1865
Carte de visite
Wisconsin Historical Society
Increase Allen Lapham: Papers, 1825-1930, carte-de-visite collection, WHS Image id: WHi-45407
LL/32881 [Further details available]
3 of 55
Fielding B. Meek, Paleontologist
1868
Carte de visite
Wisconsin Historical Society
Increase Allen Lapham: Papers, 1825-1930, carte-de-visite collection, WHS Image id: WHi-44756
LL/32883 [Further details available]
4 of 55
Fossils and Shells
1839
Daguerreotype
Musée des arts et métiers
LL/1903
5 of 55
Study of Rocks
1845 (ca)
Daguerreotype
19 7/8 x 25 1/6 in
J. Paul Getty Museum
The J. Paul Getty Trust (84.XT.183)
LL/7509
6 of 55
Niagara Falls from the Canadian Side
1850 (ca)
Daguerreotype
21.6 x 16.5 cm (8 1/2 x 6 1/2 ins)
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gift of I. N. Phelps Stokes, Edward S. Hawes, Alice Mary Hawes, and Marion Augusta Hawes, 1937, Accession Number: 37.14.7
LL/40621
7 of 55
Niagara Falls
1840, April
Daguerreotype, whole plate
6.5 x 8.5 ins
Newcastle University Library - Special Collections
LL/33473 [Further details available]
8 of 55
1845
Book page
Google Books
LL/35205 [Further details available]
9 of 55
A noon meal in Ferdinand V. Hayden's camp of the U.& Geological Survey. Red Buttes, Wyo. Terr. [Hayden sits at far end of table in dark jacket; W. H. Jackson stands at far right.]
1870, 24 August
National Archives and Records Administration
[57-HS-282]
LL/1640
10 of 55
Fig. 6 ["a great valley of Syenites"]
1869, 19 February (published)
Book illustration
Google Books
LL/39515
11 of 55
Tufa Domes, Pyramid Lake, Nevada
1867
Albumen print
20 x 27 cm (7 7/8 x 10 5/8 in)
American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution
Museum purchase from the Charles Isaacs Collection made possible in part by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment
LL/7600
12 of 55
Water rhyolites, near Logan Springs, Nevada
1871
Albumen print
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Reproduction Number: Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-10022
LL/40665 [Further details available]
13 of 55
6. View of the Grand Canon walls, near mouth of Diamond River. From waterline to first shelf 1,500 feet; from shelf to top of table 3,500 feet. Distance from point of view to top of walls 3 miles.
[Wheeler Survey, Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian]
1871-1874 (survey), 1871 (expedition)
Stereocard, detail
Etherton Gallery
LL/24719
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15. the "Vermillion Cliff," a typical plateau edge, as seen from Jacobs Pool, Arizona. From its top, a plateau stretches to the right, and from its base another to the left. Their difference of level is 1,500 feet, and the step is too steep for scaling.
[Wheeler Survey, Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian]
1871-1874 (survey), 1872 (expedition)
Stereocard, detail
Etherton Gallery
LL/24737
15 of 55
25. Camp Beauty, Canon de Chelle, walls 1,200 feet high, width of Canon at this point about one fourth of a mile.
[Wheeler Survey, Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian]
1871-1874 (survey), 1873 (expedition)
Stereocard, detail
Etherton Gallery
LL/24757
16 of 55
Canyon de Chelle, Walls of the Grand Canyon About 1200 Feet in Height
1873
Albumen print
20.3 x 27.6 cm (8 x 10 7/8 in)
American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution
Museum purchase from the Charles Isaacs Collection made possible in part by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment
LL/7596
17 of 55
47. Alpine lakes and mountain scenery in the Cerro Blanco Mountains, Colorado, 13,000 feet above sea-level.
[Wheeler Survey, Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian]
1871-1874 (survey), 1874 (expedition)
Stereocard, detail
Etherton Gallery
LL/24801
18 of 55
1870-1880
Book spines
Donald A. Heald - Rare Books, Prints & Maps
Courtesy of Donald A. Heald, #19012
LL/26996 [Further details available]
19 of 55
Title page for "Descriptive Catalogue of the Photographs of the United States Geological Survey of The Territories for The Years 1869 to 1873, inclusive" by W.H. Jackson (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1874)
1874
Title page
Google Books
LL/34861 [Further details available]
20 of 55
Title page for "Catalogue of Photographs of Indians, From Negatives in the Possession of the United States Geological Survey, Collected from Various Sources, and Covering a Period of Twenty-Five Years" by W.H. Jackson (Washington, 1874)
1874
Title page
Google Books
LL/34862 [Further details available]
21 of 55
Coal-Beds of Rio Candiota, Rio Grande Do Sul
1870 (published)
Book illustration
Google Books
LL/39517
22 of 55
Bone Field on Talbot Hill, 10 miles from Canon City, Colo.
n.d.
Stereoview
Jeffrey Kraus Antique Photographics
LL/37786 [Further details available]
23 of 55
Bone Field on Talbot Hill, 10 miles from Canon City, Colo.
n.d.
Stereoview, detail
Jeffrey Kraus Antique Photographics
LL/37787 [Further details available]
24 of 55
No.5 Roche qui pleure
[Foret de Fontainbleau]
1850s (late)
Stereoview
Northern Light Gallery
LL/41153
25 of 55
Quarry at the Sands of Macherin
1863
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Purchase, Harriette and Noel Levine Gift and Rogers Fund, 1996
LL/41162 [Further details available]
26 of 55
Photoglyph of a quarry with descriptions of layers [CarriÞre de Pierre a Batir]
[Carte géologique détaillée de la France, Feuille 48.- Paris - Annexes. Perspectives Photographiques. Pl. II]
1879 (published)
Photoglyph
20 x 24 ins (sheet)
Northern Light Gallery
LL/41071
27 of 55
Photoglyph of a quarry with descriptions of layers [CarriÞre de Pierre a Batir] (edited detail)
[Carte géologique détaillée de la France, Feuille 48.- Paris - Annexes. Perspectives Photographiques. Pl. II]
1879 (published)
Photoglyph, detail, edited
20 x 24 ins (sheet)
Northern Light Gallery
LL/41072
28 of 55
Photoglyph of a quarry with descriptions of layers [CarriÞre d'Argile Plastique]
[Carte géologique détaillée de la France, Feuille 48.- Paris - Annexes. Perspectives Photographiques. Pl. III]
1879 (published)
Photoglyph
20 x 24 ins (sheet)
Northern Light Gallery
LL/41073
29 of 55
Photoglyph of a quarry with descriptions of layers [CarriÞre d'Argile Plastique] (edited detail)
[Carte géologique détaillée de la France, Feuille 48.- Paris - Annexes. Perspectives Photographiques. Pl. III]
1879 (published)
Photoglyph, detail, edited
20 x 24 ins (sheet)
Northern Light Gallery
LL/41074
30 of 55
Brand's Cascade, Luray Caverns. (Drawn from a photograph by C.H. Jones)
1887 (published)
Magazine illustration
Google Books
LL/39516
31 of 55
Rock on a Pedestal of Ice, Tibet
1864 (ca)
Albumen Print
8 1/2 x 7 3/4 in
Peabody Essex Museum
LL/39757
32 of 55
1859, 27 April
Albumen print
Bibliothèques d'Amiens Métropole
LL/36444 [Further details available]
33 of 55
1863
Book page
Google Books
LL/36442 [Further details available]
34 of 55
Welitz Glacier, East by North from the Foot of the Umbal Glacier
1863
Albumen print, mounted on cardboard
Albertina
© Albertina, Vienna
LL/42239 [Further details available]
35 of 55
Mount Vesuvius, active [L'Eruzione del Vesuvio]
1872, 26 April (taken)
Photographic print
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-015616
LL/40664 [Further details available]
36 of 55
Mt Vesuvius erupting
1872 (taken)
Glass lantern slide
York Museums Trust
LL/40661 [Further details available]
37 of 55
[Lava fields, Italy]
1892
Albumen print
6 1/2 x 9 ins
Northern Light Gallery
LL/41567
38 of 55
Siracusa Latomie del Paradiso [Italy]
1880s
Albumen print
7 3/4 x 10 ins
Northern Light Gallery
LL/41566
39 of 55
Etna - Eruzione 1892 - Nuovi monti. 19. Agusto [Italy]
1892, 19 August (or later)
Albumen print
7 1/2 x 10 ins
Northern Light Gallery
LL/41568
40 of 55
Etna - Eruzione di Lave, Lapillo e Massi - Vista dal M.te Faggio ore 1 p.m. 17 Luglio 1892 [Italy]
1892, 17 August, 1 p.m.
Albumen print
8 x 10 ins
Northern Light Gallery
LL/41569
41 of 55
Etna - Interno del 1 cratere, pressola montagnuola, 19 Agosto 1892 (italy)
1892, 19 August (or later)
Albumen print
8 x 10 ins
Northern Light Gallery
LL/41570
42 of 55
Photographers on hillside photographing Mt. Etna eruption
1910 (created or published)
Glass negative
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-04580
LL/40662
43 of 55
Pouk Hill nr. Walsall, Basalt
n.d.
Photographic print
Lapworth Museum of Geology, University of Birmingham
LL/40660
44 of 55
Moving the Bendégo Meteorite
1888
Albumen print
9 1/8 x 12 3/16 ins (23.18 x 30.96 cm)
SFMOMA - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Foto Forum purchase, 2003.118.A-R
LL/46067
45 of 55
Surveying under difficulties
[Photographs taken during construction of the Union Pacific Railroad]
1864-1869
Albumen print
28.2 x 35.5 cm
Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: ZZc10 864un, Image ID Number: 1078347
LL/46726
46 of 55
[Geological Survey party in camp at Canoe River, October 14. Alfred Selwyn at centre with John Hammond (left centre) and Benjamin Baltzly (right centre)]
[Geological Survey of Canada expedition of British Columbia, led by Alfred R. C. Selwyn]
1871, 14 October
Albumen print
17.5 x 23.5 cm (image) 36 x 49.5 cm (mount)
Toronto Reference Library
Special Collections, Canadian Historical Picture Collection, Identifier: 928-2-31
LL/41439 [Further details available]
47 of 55
Grand Rapids Sandstone, underlain by Clearwater shale [on the Athabasca River]
[1893 expedition to the barren lands [Geological Survey]]
1893, 8 June
Black and white print
10 x 12 cm
University of Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
Digital ID: P10172
LL/41413 [Further details available]
48 of 55
[Exterior view of Mammoth Cave]
[Views of Mammoth Cave and Vicinity]
1877 (Entered into Congress)
Stereoview
Northern Light Gallery
LL/41149
49 of 55
[Interior view of Mammoth Cave - Magnesium light]
[Views of Mammoth Cave and Vicinity]
1877 (Entered into Congress)
Stereoview
Northern Light Gallery
LL/41150
50 of 55
[Interior view of Mammoth Cave - Magnesium light]
[Views of Mammoth Cave and Vicinity]
1877 (Entered into Congress)
Stereoview
Northern Light Gallery
LL/41151
51 of 55
Niagara Farm
[Titusville, Pennsylvania]
1876
Albumen print
Northern Light Gallery
LL/41152 [Further details available]
52 of 55
Photographs of fossils by Thomas Annan
1874, 31 March (meeting)
Magazine page
Google Books
LL/42617 [Further details available]
53 of 55
Fluorescent minerals
2005, 7 April
Under UV-A, UV-B and UV-C light
Creative Commons - Wikipedia
LL/42349
54 of 55
Fluorescent minerals [key]
2005, 7 April
Under UV-A, UV-B and UV-C light
Creative Commons - Wikipedia
LL/42350 [Further details available]
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