Glacier in the Swiss Alps on the border between Italy and France on the Mont Blanc Massif. Earlier known as the Glacier des Bois, when in the 18th and 19th centuries the glacier descended all the way down to the hamlet of Les Bois.
Mer de Glace
Glacier des Bois
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Robertson, Ronald Sinclair Munro 1910-1995 :Album of house, home, cars, and a world tri...
Date: ca 1960
From: Robertson, Ronald Sinclair Munro 1910-1995 :Photographs
By: Robertson, Ronald Sinclair Munro, 1910-1995
Reference: PA1-q-599
Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
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[Fox, William] 1812-1893 :Mer de glace from [... illegible. Swtizerland 1866]
Date: 1866
By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Wilkie, John Campbell, 1899-1977
Reference: WC-319
Description: A glacier in the foreground, with hills and mountains behind Other Titles - Mountains and green and white glacier. Sea of Ice [translation] Inscriptions: Verso - bottom right - title inscribed in pencil. Illegible word is something like Winter... or Mint.. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & Chinese white over pencil 250 x 350 mm Provenance: Descent from artist to Wilkie family
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Swiss Alps album 1
Date: [Circa 1880s or 1890s?]
By: Charnaux Freres (Geneva, Switzerland)
Reference: PA1-o-487
Description: Album of tourist photographs taken by Swiss photographers Charnaux Freres, Geneva. They include scenes of mountain climbing, negotiating a crevasse, glaciers, and Chamonix Album consists of joined pages folded in concertina form Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, entitled "Souvenir", Charnaux Freres & Cie., Geneve; 21.5 x 27.0 cm