Bernese Highlands. Rescue of the guide Jean-Michel, who fell into a crevasse of the small glacier at Grindewald, September 16, 1864."

Bernese Highlands. Rescue of the guide Jean-Michel, who fell into a crevasse of the small glacier at Grindewald, September 16, 1864."

Photograph

Adolphe Braun

Maker
French, 1812–1877

Bernese Highlands. Rescue of the guide Jean-Michel, who fell into a crevasse of the small glacier at Grindewald, September 16, 1864."

From "Suisse" (yellow)


ca. 1865
Albumen silver print
7.7 x 7.3 cm. image on 8.5 x 17.4 cm. mount (dome-topped)
Gift of the 3M Foundation, ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley, 1977
1981.6562.0012
Inscriptions mount-recto (letterpress) "A. Braun, a Dornach (Haut-Rhin) Suisse."
verso (printed paper label) "No. 3307 Oberland Bernois. Sauvetage du
guide Jean-Michel, tombe dans une crevasse du glacier interieur de
Grindewald, le 16 Septembre 1864."
(handwritten in ink) "Bernese Mountains, Switzerland, Y. C. G."
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