Alpine Collection

Hannibal crossing the Alps
Hannibal and his army crosses the Alps - an epic overland journey from Carthage to Italy during the Second Punic War in Italy (218-203 BC). Two of Hannibals war elephants are pictured

Swiss Scenery - Eiger, Monch and Jungfrau
The peaks of the Eiger, Monch and Jungfrau, Switzerland Date: circa 1908

Poster, Wengernalp Jungfrau Railway, Switzerland
Poster advertising the Wengernalp Jungfrau Railway, Bernese Oberland, Switzerland, designed by Francois Gos. Date: circa 1950s

Poster advertising Sestriere, Italy
Poster advertising Sestriere, an alpine village in Italy, popular as a ski resort

A Selection of Fish
An assortment of fish: 1. sharp-nosed eel, 2. blunt-nosed eel, 3. burbot, 4. lamprey, 5. lampern, 6. chub, 7. perch, 8. roach, 9. bream, 10. rudd, 11. Prussian carp, 12. Crucian carp, 13. tench, 14

Two cows with bells round their necks in Alpine scenery. Date: circa 1970s

View of Zurich and distant alps, Switzerland

Gandria - northern shore of Lake Lugano, Switzerland
Gandria - a quarter of the city of Lugano in the Swiss canton of Ticino, and a village, on the northern shore of Lake Lugano, Switzerland. Date: circa 1930s

Shield and flag of Switzerland with Edelweiss flower. Date: circa 1903

Hannibal and his army crosses the Alps - an epic overland journey from Carthage to Italy during the Second Punic War in Italy (218-203 BC). Two of Hannibals war elephants are pictured

Hotels Viktoria and Jungfrau, Interlaken, Berne, Switzerland
Hotel Viktoria and Hotel Jungfrau, Interlaken, Berne, Switzerland

Les Diablerets, Switzerland
Les Diablerets - a village and ski resort located in the municipality of Ormont-Dessus in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland. Date: circa 1920s

The Reichenbach Falls close to Meiringen, Switzerland

Alpine Horn
Man blowing a traditional horn in the Alps. Date: 1930s

Alpine Golf poster
Poster advertising the 18 hole golf course at Carezzo al Lago in the Italian Dolomites, along with the Grand Hotel where enthusiastic golfers can stay

Chamonix, France - Crossing the Bossons Glacier circa 1910s

Triumph Southern Cross
The Triumph-Gloria Southern Cross : earlier models performed well in the Monte Carlo and Alpine trials. Date: 1936

Waterskiing fun in Lake Geneva at Evian-les-Bains
Waterskiing fun in Lake Geneva (Lac Leman) at Evian-les-Bains, France Date: circa 1950s

Italian Alpini climbing Monte Adamello
Italian Alpini troops forming a zig-zag line as they ascend Monte Adamello during their Alpine struggle against the Austrians in World War I

Myosotis Alpestris
Alpine Forget-Me-Not

Italian Alpine Soldier
An Italian soldier of an Alpine mountain regiment, during World War One

A Sporty White Sunbeam Alpine in a Humber, Hillman and Sunbeam Rootes Motors Limited brochure 1960

Dent Blanche in the Alps
The Dent Blanche is in the Pennine Alps, lying in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. With a 4, 357 metres high summit, its one of the highest peaks in the Alps. Date: 1918

Les Diables Bleus - 21st Regiment of the Chasseurs Alpins
Les Diables Bleus - the 21st Regiment of the Chasseurs Alpins. A platoon on a mountain path by a stream. Pierre Comba (1859-1934)

Morcote, Ticino, Lake Lugano, Switzerland
Morcote is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Ticino situated about 10 kilometres from Lugano in the district of Lugano on the shore of Lake Lugano. Date: circa 1930s

Blowing an Alpenhorn, Switzerland
A Swiss alphorn (alpenhorn, alpine horn or labrophone) player

Mountain climbing in snow, Mont Blanc, Alps
Vintage 19th century photograph - climbing Mont Blanc, Alps

Hospiz St Christoph am Arlberg, Tyrol, Austria. Date: circa 1908

Leysin, Switzerland - Hotel du Chamossaire and the Ice Rink Date: circa 1910s

Swiss Cable Cars
Piz Gloria, Schilthorn, Switzerland is the longest aerial cableway in the Swiss Alps and provides the most unimpeded panoramic mountain views

Alpine horn Grindelwald Switzerland early 1900s

Waiting carriages at Grindelwald, Switzerland
Carriages waiting for tourists at Grindelwald, near Berne, Switzerland, with the Eiger behind. Date: circa 1930s

Chamonix and Mont Blanc, France
Mont Blanc viewed from Le Jardin. 1845

Outdoor Curling Match on the ice at Bern, Switzerland. Date: circa 1907

Poster, Anglo-Swiss Telephone Service, showing a woman skating in the Alps. 20th century

The White Horse Inn by Harry Graham
Promotional postcard for The White Horse Inn by Harry Graham from the German of Hans Muller (Im Weissen Roessl, Grosses Schauspielhaus, Berlin, 8th November 1930); music Ralph Benatzky &c

Kitzbuhel by night, Tyrol, Austria, alpine town and popular ski resort. Date: circa 1930

Le Mont Cervin (Matterhorn Mountain) from Riffelalp a hamlet in the municipality of Zermatt in the canton of Valais, Switzerland

Antibes, France - The Old Town and a view of the Alps
circa 1910s

Cross-country skier - A young cross-country skier crossing the snow in an alpine region. Date: circa 1916

Skiers - Riffelboden - view of Matterhorn - nr. Zermatt, Switzerland Date: circa late 1930s

Alpen Hotel, St Peter Spindlermuhle, Czech Republic
Alpen Hotel, St Peter Spindlermuhle (Spindelmuhle, Spindleruv Mlyn), a mountain and ski resort in the Czech Republic. Date: circa 1920s

Poster for The Upper Austrian Tourist Board - Ski Scene Date: circa 1937

Ivy-leaved cyclamen, Cyclamen repandum.. A native of Italy. Cyclamen repandum (Cyclamen hederaefolium)

Dent de Jaman and Rochers de Naye, Vaud, Switzerland
The village of Les Avants, with La Dent de Jaman and Les Rochers de Naye, Montreux, Vaud, Switzerland

Swiss Cow Lowing
A Swiss bull, high on an Alpine meadow, bellows breathily

Switzerland - Pfaffikon and the Seestrasse
Switzerland - Seestrasse, Pfaffikon and view toward the Pfaffikersee Lake. Date: circa 1920s

Switzerland - Grindelwald. On the Eismeer
Coloured lantern slide of a view of the Eismeer Lower Grindelwald Glacier, the western of the two in the valley of Grindelwald. There are two explorer figures at the bottom of the glacier

Auster J / 5R Alpine, G-APa, belonging to the Automobile ?
Auster J/5R Alpine, G-APa, belonging to the Automobile Association at the 1957 Royal Aeronautical Society Garden Party at Wisley on 15 September

Zermatt, Switzerland - Old Wooden Houses Date: circa 1920

Entrance and Exit to the Gotthard Tunnel, Switzerland
Alpine Mountain folk from Unterwalden (Sylvania) - the old name of a forest-canton of the Old Swiss Confederacy in central Switzerland, south of Lake Lucerne. Date: circa 1908

Zermatt, Switzerland - with the distinctive shape of the Matterhorn in the distance. Date: circa 1908

Skiing Break
Two skiers take a break and enjoy the spectacular Alpine scenery. Date: 1960s

Gryon, Switzerland - A moonlit street. Gryon is a municipality of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland, located in the district of Aigle. Date: circa 1910s

Poster advertising Pontresina in Switzerland
Poster advertising Pontresina, an alpine village in the Engadin region of Switzerland, not far from St Moritz

Christmas card
Vintage Christmas card. Alpine scene Date: 1950s

Christmas card
Vintage Christmas card. Alpine scene Date: 1950s

Switzerland. Inauguration of the St. Gotthard Railway. Arrival of the first train at Goschenen station. Engraving by Tomas Carlos Capuz. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana, 1882

Switzerland. The Gotthard Railway. The Railway layout near Polmengo: tunnels and viaduct in the Ticino Valley. Engraving by Capuz. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana, 1882

Vive Le Sport! Go by rail... Advert for SNCF French Railways. Date: 1954

Locarno: Madonna del Sasso
Locarno, Italy: Madonna del Sasso - located on the northern shore of Lake Maggiore at its northeastern tip in the canton of Ticino at the southern foot of the Swiss Alps

Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery in Gstaad
Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (1887-1976) in Gstaad - an upscale resort town in the Bernese Oberland region of the Swiss Alps, Switzerland

The best attended private view: society and Sir John and Lady Laverys pictures. The show of pictures by Sir John and Lady Lavery at the Alpine Galleries was the smartest private view imaginable

Chateau de Chillon, south of Veytaux, Swiss Alps, Switzerland
Vintage 19th century photograph: Chateau de Chillon. Chillon Castle is an island castle located on Lake Geneva, south of Veytaux in the canton of Vaud

View of Matterhorn, Zermatt, Switzerland, snow-covered scene. Date: circa late 1930s

Pair of Skiers - Switzerland - 1900s. Date: circa 1907

Mont Blanc Massif - French Alps - Chamonix - The Plan Praz Terrace (2064m altitude.) Date: circa 1910s

Switzerland - View toward the Matterhorn. Date: circa 1910s

Alpine Horn, Grindelwald, Switzerland

Skiers and the Matterhorn (Mont Cervin), Switzerland - near Riffelberg, a railway station on the Gornergrat railway

Switzerland - Zermatt, Matterhorn (Mont Cervin). Date: circa 1950s

Church at Zermatt with Church and the Matterhorn (Mount Cervin) in the background. Date: 1930

Zermatt, Switzerland and Mischabel group mountains
Beautiful Zermatt, Switzerland set before a backdrop of the Mischabel group mountains of the Swiss Alps (Mischabelgruppe). Date: circa 1920s

A Barque on Lac Leman (Lake Geneva), Switzerland
A Barque on Lac Leman (Lake Geneva), looking toward the Dents du Midi, a three-kilometre-long mountain range in the Chablais Alps in the canton of Valais, Switzerland. Date: circa 1910s

A Barque on Lac Leman, Switzerland
A Barque on Lac Leman (Lake Geneva), Switzerland. Date: circa 1910s

Hesshutte, Gesause National Park, Austria
Hesshutte - a mountain refuge in Gesause National Park, located in the Austrian State of Styria. Built by the Alpine company Die Ennstaler in 1893 and named after the Gesause pioneer Heinrich Hess

Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany
Garmisch-Partenkirchen nicknamed Ga-Pa, is an Alpine ski town in Bavaria, southern Germany. Date: circa 1920s

Poster, Spring in the French Alps - alpine garden, Col du Lautaret in June Date: 1960

Poster, Austrian Alps Date: 20th century

Poster, Massif de la Meije, French Alps
Poster, French Alps - Massif de la Meije - Hautes Alpes, France Date: 1947

PLM poster, French Alps
PLM poster, GAP, French Alps, with sunshine all year round Date: 1932

Poster, Skiing in the Italian Alps - Limone, Piemonte Date: 1953

Poster, Engadine, Swiss Alps
Poster, Scuol, Tarasp, Vulpera, Thermal Station, Engadine, Swiss Alps Date: 20th century

Edelweiss and Alpine Aster on the Fluhalpe near Zermatt
Edelweiss (Leontopodium alpinum) and Alpine Aster (Aster alpinus) on the Fluhalpe near Zermatt (the Matterhorn visible in the distance) Date: circa 1920s

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