Alps Collection (page 13)

Scenes around Grindelwald Date: 1900

Saurer open top Post Bus navigates the winding Furkastrasse
A Saurer open top Post Bus (Swiss rural bus service) navigating the winding Furkastrasse which passes the Rhone glacier in the Swiss Alps (the source of the river Rhone) Date: 1929

The Duchess of Westminster learning to ski
Constance Edwina (n饠 Cornwallis West), Duchess of Westminster (later Mrs James Fitzpatrick Lewes) (died 1970), First wife of 2nd Duke of Westminster

Alps from Verona, Italy
" The strange sweeping loop formed by the junctions of the Alps and Appenines [encloses]... the great basin of Lombardy

Sea-coast north of Viareggio, Italy
NEAR the spot where Shelleys body was cremated, August 18, 1828. " The situation was well calculated for a poets grave

Portofino, Italian Riviera
Portofino, founded by the Romans and named Portus Delphini, or Port of the Dolphin, due to the large number of dolphins that inhabited the Tigullian Gulf

Lake Maggiore, Lago Verbano, Italy, Switzerland
Located on the south side of the Alps, the lake and its shoreline are divided between the Italian regions of Piedmont and Lombardy and the Swiss canton of Ticino

Valley in Piedmont
Piedmont is Italys second largest region. Surrounded on three sides by the Alps, including Monviso (where the river Po rises) and Monte Rosa. It also borders with France and Switzerland. Date: 1918

Orange Grove, Italian riviera, Italy
The Italian Riviera, is the narrow coastal strip which lies between the Ligurian Sea and the mountain range formed by the Maritime Alps and the Apennines. Date: 1918

Alpine Pass, Italy. Date: 1918

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

Natural Garden in the Alps, Italy. Date: 1918

Alpini ski troops, Italian Alps, WW1
Alpini ski troops in the Italian Alps during the First World War, when Italy were fighting the Austro-Hungarian Empire. circa 1916

Scene near Randogne, Sierre, Valais, Switzerland
Snowy scene near Randogne, Sierre, Valais, Switzerland. Date: 1934

Train on mountain summit, Caux, Switzerland
Tourists visiting a mountain summit by train near Caux, Switzerland. Showing Lake Geneva (Lac Leman) and the Savoy Alps. Date: early 20th century

View of Chur (Coire), Grisons, Switzerland
View of Chur (or Coire), Grisons, Switzerland. Date: early 20th century

The Bystander front cover, Winter Sports number 1929
Front cover of The Bystander magazines winter sports number featuring a society gathering on the piste for some ski action in 1929. Date: 1929

Switzerland - Morschach Village
Coloured lantern slide of a view of Morschach Village. The municipality is located on a glacier moraine above the Lake of Lucerne.. Slide number 66 of Box 181 entitled Swiss No.1. Date: circa 1890s

Switzerland - Berne. The Clock Tower
Coloured lantern slide of a view of the Clock Tower at Berne. One of the most famous sight is the Zytglogge (Bernese German for Time Bell ), an elaborate medieval clock tower with moving puppets

Switzerland - Berne. The High Street
Coloured lantern slide of a view of the Berne High Street. There is a clock tower in the background and young children gathered around a fountain in the foreground.. Box 181 entitled Swiss No.1

Switzerland - Berne. From Schaenzli
Coloured lantern slide of a view across Berne. The city lies on the Swiss plateau in the Canton of Bern, slightly west of the centre of Switzerland and 20 km (12 mi) north of the Bernese Alps

Switzerland - Blumlis Alp
Black and white lantern slide of the Bluemlisalp, a massif of the Bernese Alps, in the territory of the municipalies of Kandersteg and Reichenbach im Kandertal

Switzerland - Spietz, Lake of Thun
Coloured lantern slide of a view of Lake Thun, an Alpine lake in the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland. It took its name from the city of Thun, on its northern shore

Switzerland - Fribourg, Lower Town Fountain
Coloured lantern slide of a nighttime view across Fribourg. In the foreground is the Fountain de la Fid鬩 t頨 loyalty), with a statue that stands with a flag

Switzerland - Thun, from Belle Vue Pavilion
Coloured lantern slide of a view across Thun. It is located where the River Aar flows out of Lake Thun (Thunersee), 30 km south of Bern

Switzerland - Berne. From Rosengarten
Coloured lantern slide of the Rosengarten or Rose Garden, from which a scenic panoramic view of the medieval town centre can be enjoyed

Switzerland - Thun, the Castle
Coloured lantern slide of a view across Thun, Switzerland. The twelfth century Castle was built in 1190 by Duke Bertold V of Z䨲 ingen.. Slide number 44 of Box 181 entitled Swiss No.1

Switzerland - Handeck, Falls of the Aar
Coloured lantern slide of the Aar Falls at Handeck. A waterfall on the Aare River in Bern, Switzerland; it is located about 9 miles south of Meiringen village

Switzerland - Rosenlaui, The Wellhorn and the Wetterhorn
Coloured lantern slide of a view across the Rosenlaui alpine valley with the mountains Wellhorn and Wetterhorn in the background. The Wetterhorn (3, 692 m), was first climbed in 1844, by Stanhope T

Switzerland - Interlaken, Hotel Beau-Rivage
Coloured lantern slide of a view across the Swiss town Interlaken. In the background is a Mount Jungfrau - one of the main summits in the Bernese Alps

Switzerland - Gasterin Thal, the Schilthorn
Coloured lantern slide of a view of the Schilthorn. The Schilthorn is a 2, 970 metre high summit of the Bernese Alps, overlooking the valley of Lauterbrunnen in the Swiss canton of Bern

Switzerland - Fribourg, The Cathedral
Coloured lantern slide of the Fribourg Cathedral. The Gothic Cathedral of Saint Nicholas dominates the center of the medieval town of Fribourg

Switzerland - Thun, from the Churchyard
Coloured lantern slide of a view across Thun. It is located where the River Aar flows out of Lake Thun (Thunersee), 30 km south of Bern

Switzerland - Fribourg, The Suspended Bridge
Coloured lantern slide of a view across the Suspended Fribourg Bridge. Built in 1834 by Joseph Chaley, the iron wire bridge was temporarily the longest suspension bridge in the world

Switzerland - Grimsel Lake and Hospice
Coloured lantern slide of a view over Lake Grimsel. Grimselsee or Lake Grimsel is an artificial lake near Grimsel Pass in the Canton of Berne, Switzerland. The dam was completed in 1932

Switzerland - The Sarnen Sea
Coloured lantern slide of a view across Lake Sarnen. Sarnersee is a lake in the Canton of Obwalden, Switzerland with Sarnen and Sachseln located on the shores

Switzerland - Handek, the Chalet
Coloured lantern slide of a chalet at Handek. In the background is a large mountain range. Handeck is a village in the municipality of Guttannen, Switzerland, near the lake Gelmersee

Switzerland - Brunnen
Coloured lantern slide of a view across Brunnen and Lake Lucerne. Brunnen is situated on the shores of Lake Lucerne and has views of Urnersee to the east

Switzerland - Lake of Lucerne, the Axenstrasse
Coloured lantern slide of a view across the Lake of Lucerne from the Axenstrasse, a road built alongside the lake that includes a windowed tunnel

Switzerland - Lake of Lucerne, View from the Rigi
Coloured lantern slide of a view across the Lake of Lucerne from Mount Rigi, Queen of the Mountains. In the foreground appears to be a train track, that of the Rigi-Bahnen

Switzerland - Lucerne the Lion Monument
Coloured lantern slide of the Lion of Lucerne. Designed by Bertel Thorvaldsen and hewn in 182021 by Lukas Ahorn, the statue commemorates the Swiss Guards who were massacred in 1792 during the French

Switzerland - Lucerne the Hofkirche
Coloured lantern slide of a view across Lucerne, Switzerland with the stand out twin spires of Hofkirche or Church of St. Leodegar

Switzerland - Lucerne and Pilatus
Coloured lantern slide of a view across Lucerne, Switzerland with Mount Pilatus in the background. Mount Pilatus was named after a local legend that Pontius Pilate was buried there

Switzerland - Schaffhausen from High Rock
Coloured lantern slide of a view across the city of Schaffhausen in Switzerland.. Slide number 8 of Box 181 entitled Swiss No.1. Date: circa 1890s

Switzerland - The Falls of the Rhine, Neuhausen
Coloured lantern slide of a view across the Rhine Falls. Neuhausen is a small municipality in the canton of Schaffhausen in Switzerland; the little town is well known for the Rhine Falls

Switzerland - The Rhine above the Falls, Neuhausen
Coloured lantern slide of a view across the Rhine Falls. The largest plain waterfall in Europe, they are located near Schaffhausen in Switzerland, and are 150 m (450 ft) wide and 23 m (75 ft) high

Switzerland - The Upper Bridge, Basel
Coloured lantern slide depicting a view of Basels Upper Bridge or Wettsteinbrucke. It is the second oldest bridge across the Rhine

Switzerland - Basel, Old Bridge and Three Kings Hotel
Coloured lantern slide depicting a view of the Three Kings Hotel, Basel. Old Bridge can be seen in the foreground, as can the River Rhine

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