Nationality
American
Artist Dates
1864 - 1938
Title of Work
Stereoscope Slide, Lauterbrunnen Valley and the Lovely Fall of the Staubbach, Switzerland.
Preview
Date of Work
c. 1901
Date of Work
1901
Medium
Stereoscopic Slide
Height
3.5
Width
7
Collection/Provenance
Art & Design Study Collection, James Smith Pierce Collection.
Status
Stored: SS-Box-JSP-1
Location
UND Art Collections Repository
Additional Information
Black and white photo of a valley in front of a gorge. There are various trees and wildflowers in the valley. To the right are several small waterfalls. In the background a mountain is visible.
Text on front left:
Keystone View Company
Manufacturers Publishers
Copyright 1901, by
B. L. Singley. Made in U.S.A.
Text on front below image:
10750 - Lauterbrunnen Valley and the Lovely Fall of the Staubbach, Switzerland.
Text on front right:
Meadville, Pa., St. Louis, Mo., Portland, Ore., New York, N.Y., Toronto, Can., London, Eng.
Text on back:
63
The Lauterbrunnen Valley takes its names from the many springs which have their issue here. Few names could be more appropriate and descriptive. "Innumerable streamlets, after careering for some time out of sight on the higher Alps, spring over abrupt cliffs a .d buttresses of rock, and leap down the smooth grassy slopes which inclose the valley, reaching the bottom in showers of spray." The most noted of these cascades is the Staubbach (Dust-Brook) which takes its name from the fact that in the course of its descent the whole mass of water is beaten into spray, and falls to the ground like a shower of finely pulverized silver. It is the loftiest fall in Europe, springing over the perpendicular face of the cliff at a height of over 900 feet from the ground.
By way of Interlaken we reach the lake and town of Thun.
Condition
Very Good