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Alpine Club photographs: members, climbers, guides and mountains, 1890s

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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/WHE/3/1

Scope and Contents

A collection of photographs featuring Wherry with fellow Alpine Club members and guides (in formal, posed groups and climbing) and selected named peaks.

Dates

  • Creation: 1890s

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

From the Fonds:

Open access.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright in digitised copy Downing College. Permission required for use.

Extent

12 photographic print(s)

Arrangement

Order at the time of donation retained, so not in chronological order once subjects and dates were identified during cataloguing from annotations and published sources.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

2024-25/028 - gift from the niece of Wherry's granddaughter.

Existence and Location of Copies

Digitised copies available.

Related Materials

Wherry refers to specific climbs in his 'Alpine Notes and the Climbing Foot' (1896), which also includes some of these images, and 'Notes from a Knapsack' (1909). See also Records of the Cambridge University Mountaineering Club, 1882 - 2002 (Cambridge University Library, GBR/0265/UA/SOC.XXI), including items from Wherry's library donated after his death.

Repository Details

Part of the Downing College Repository

Contact:
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