Titre

Chamonix et Le Mont-Blanc, où la Suisse et la France se rencontrent

Datation

Le 26 Décembre 1930

Datation min.

1930

Datation max.

1930

Commentaire datation

Datation fournie par les Archives de Californie (voir Bibliographie)

Auteur du cliché

George Lewis

Mention d’édition

Keystone View Compagny

Editeur

Keystone View Company ,

Numéro dans la série

440

Laboratoire photographique

Chamonix-Mont-Blanc

Légende sur document

33304 Where France and Switzerland Meet — Mt. Blanc and the Village of Chamonix, France.

Commentaire légende

Légende imprimée sous l'image de droite. Encre de couleur noire.

Localisation

Lieu

Chamonix-Mont-Blanc

Architecture

Chalet de montagne , Immeuble , Maison

Milieu - Environnement

Alpes , Forêt , Pic , Sommet

Texte au recto

A gauche, verticalement : Keystone View Compagny copyrighted made in U.S.A. Manufacturers Publishers A droite, verticalement : Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England. En haut, au centre : 440 Sous l'image de droite :

Verso inscrit

oui

Texte au verso

10730 VILLAGE OF CHAMONIX, FRANCE None who have been privileged to visit this little village, looking in the distance like a col- lection of cardboard houses, can fail to be impressed with the majestic mountains which surround it and which rear their bare brown rocks and snow-covered peaks to the sky. Here nature is supreme. Now we look toward the gigantic dome of Mont Blanc, majestic and glorious, stern yet fascinating. If we were to look through a telescope from the village there below, and such opportunities are afforded visitors, we would be almost certain to discover one or more lines of black figures climbing the precipitous heights. We might see them linked to each other by ropes as they need to be when crossing treacherous glaciers, scaling steep walls or passing narrow mountain ledges. We might also see the wind-driven snow flying around them. Chamonix and Mont Blanc are in the French Alps, not, as so many suppose, in Switzerland. Geneva is about sixty miles distant, the nearest large city. Not so many years ago tourists were obliged to take coaches over the moun tain to Chamonix or else, knapsack on back, to tramp in. On their way, through rifts in cloud at their feet, they saw mountain brooks hundreds of feet below. Sometimes they descended into barren valleys. Occasionally they passed a glacier from whose base issued a milkwhite stream. A delightful trip, but one which lacks the novelty and something of the charm of the older methods, is to go by motor car. It is also possible for one to travel the entire distance by steam and electric railway, Copyright by The Keystone View Company

Bibliographie

https://calisphere.org/item/ark:/13030/kt5j49q1br/

Etat de conservation

excellent

Support

Photographies collées sur carton

Dimensions

17,7 x 8,8

Info développement

Positif

Info couleur

Noir et Blanc

Propriétaire

M. Le Menn

Lieu de conservation

Pessac

Auteur de la numérisation

Catherine Carponsin-Martin

Créateur du dépôt

CLEM

Date de dépôt

Octobre 2022

Lot

LOT10 LE MENN

Nom usuel

LM139

Auteur

George Lewis

Titre

Chamonix et Le Mont-Blanc, où la Suisse et la France se rencontrent

Date de création

Le 26 Décembre 1930

Légende

33304 Where France and Switzerland Meet — Mt. Blanc and the Village of Chamonix, France.

Ville

Chamonix-Mont-Blanc

Région

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Pays

France

Fournisseur

CLEM - Archéovision

Auteur de la description

Chloé Bernard