Mountain Collection

Desert near Palm Springs, California, USA
Desert near Palm Springs, Riverside County, California, USA, with Mount San Jacinto in the background. Date: late 1930s

WW2 poster, activities of 52 (Lowland) Division
Screen-print poster, published circa 1950, showing the activities of the 52nd Lowland Division during the Second World War, with a map of Northern Europe, and unit badges along the top and bottom

Muckish Mountain County Donegal, Republic of Ireland

Syria and Lebanon holiday poster
La Syrie et Le Liban. Travel poster from French company PLM advertising Syria and Lebanon as holiday destinations. A charabanc makes its way up a winding mountain road

The Beach, Rosses Point, and Ben Bulben Mountain, Co Sligo
The Beach, Rosses Point, and Ben Bulben Mountain, County Sligo, Republic of Ireland

Hillary and Tensing Bhutia conquering Everest
Front cover of The Illustrated London News showing Sir Edmund Hillary together with Sherpa Tensing Bhutia reaching the summit of Mount Everest on May 29 1953

Sugar Loaf Mountain, Abergravenny i. e. Abergavenny, England
Sugar Loaf Mountain, Abergravenny i.e. Abergavenny, England. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

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

Edmund Hillary & Tensing
Sir Edmund Hillary with Tenzing Norgay after their successful attempt to scale Mount Everest in Nepal on 29th May 1953. The legendary mountaineer died in January 2008

Geronimo (1829 - 1909), War Chief of the White Mountain Apache [in 1905]

Ma Yuan (1155-1235). Walking on a mountain path in spring. Ink on paper. Chinese art. Song period. TAIWAN. Taipei. The National Palace Museum (NPM)

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

Label, Hotel Post, St Anton am Arlberg, Tyrol, Austria
Luggage label from the Hotel Post, St Anton am Arlberg, Tyrol, Austria. Date: 20th century

The House - Lake Mohonk
Mohonk Mountain House - Built on the deep-blue waters of Lake Mohonk in 1869, this grand 267-room Victorian castle is one of Americas oldest family-owned resorts. Date: 1912

Mitchelstown and Galtee Mountains, County Cork, Ireland
Mitchelstown and Galtee Mountains, County Cork, Republic of Ireland. circa 1970s

Sisyphus and his Stone
Sisyphys, father of Odysseus, for no known reason, is condemned to push a rock to the top of a mountain in Hell, which the demons push down again, and again, and again

Poster for Lake Garda, Italy
Poster advertising Lake Garda, Italy -- an idyllic scene

Don Quixote riding with Sancho Panza
A scene from Cervantes novel Don Quixote -- the hero of the title rides with his companion Sancho Panza along a mountain pass

Poster, Kilimanjaro, Tanganyika Territory, Africa. circa 1940

The mountain, Tryfan and Llyn Ogwen N Wales
The mountain, Tryfan and Llyn Ogwen. N Wales. Date: 1960s

View of Zurich and distant alps, Switzerland

Early view of Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town, South Africa with Table Mountain in the (shrouded in cloud) in the background. Date: circa 1920s

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

Annie Peck masked and dressed for climbing
Annie Smith Peck (October 19, 1850 July 18, 1935), American mountaineer pictured in her climbing outfit at the time she had scaled Mount Huascan

Slieve Gallion - a view across a plain with farmhouses and fields to the mountain in the distance. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Londonderry). Date: circa early 1900s

Crieff Hydropathic - Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland
Crieff Hydro is a hotel in Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland which opened in 1868 as the Crieff Hydropathic Establishment. Founded in 1868 by Dr Thomas Henry Meikle with an emphasis on exercise

Mount Everest Expedition 1924
Mount Everest Expedition, 1924. Led by General The Hon. C. B. Bruce C.B. A view of Mount Everest from the Base Camp in the Rongbuk Valley, Tibet. Sent (and signed on front) by J. B. L

Cwmpennar Colliery, Glamorgan, South Wales
View of Cwmpennar Colliery (also known as the Powell Duffryn Colliery), Mountain Ash, Glamorgan, South Wales

Scotland / Ben Nevis
Tourists in a motorcycle and sidecar take in this fine view of the distant peak of Ben Nevis, Britains highest mountain, from the Road to the Isles, Inverness-shire

Swiss Mountain Railway
The Swiss have more mountains than most people - and more railways to carry you up them. This is the electric rack- railway of Gernergrat, starting at Zermatt

Thatched Cottage in the Yeats Country, Ben Bulben Mountain, County Sligo, Republic of Ireland

Dubrovnik. Map of the city before the earthquake of 1667. Croatia

Hillary and Tensing on Mount Everest
Hillary and Tensing nearing the summit of Mount Everest. Date: 1953

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

Autocar Poster -- Targa Florio race, Sicily
Autocar Poster -- Italian champion Felice Nazzaro driving the Fiat car in which he won the Targa Florio race in Sicily. His average speed for the race was around 33 mph on gruelling mountain roads

Sugar Loaf Mountain, Co. Wicklow. Campbell, John Henry 1757 - 1828

Errigal Mountain (1870). Burgess, James Howard 1817-1890. Date: 1870

Switzerland / Zermatt
The Matterhorn towering over the ski resort of Zermatt, Switzerland. Date: 1960s

Salvatore Giuliano
The Italian bandit, Salvatore Giuliano, posing outside his mountain hideout in Sicily. Date: 1950s

Brooklands Poster
A poster for the racing programme at Brooklands Race Tract at Weybridge, Surrey, featuring Sir Malcolm Campbell driving (at the time) the worlds fastest car, Bluebird

The Sketch Front Cover, Winter 1955
A colour illustration of the Winter Sports number of The Sketch, from 1955, showing a woman in her skiing clothes, with a majestic mountain range behind her

North Wales, Snowdonia - Mount Snowdon - footpath on the mountain

Errigal, Co Donegal - a view of the mountain with a cottage in the foreground. (Location: Republic of Ireland; County Donegal; Errigal). Date: circa early 1900s

Poster, Lourdes, France. Date: circa 1930s

Distributions of plants at various altitudes
Coloured engraving of Alexander Humboldt illustration. Tableaux de la Nature, 1865. Date: 1865

View of Sitka, Alaska, USA
View of Sitka, Alexander Archipelago, Alaska, USA. Date: circa 1920

Mount Kanchenjunga from Darjeeling, by Edward Lear (1812-1888). Date: 1877

Wales / Cwmystwyth
View of the valley and the tiny village of Cwmystwyth, Cardiganshire, Wales. A scenic mountain road runs from here to Rhayader. Date: 1960s

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