Mount Moira [elevation 22,621 ft], 1866
Scope and Contents
323 x 193 mm. View looking along the valley towards Mt. Moira, presumably named after Francis Rawdon Hastings, Earl of Moira and Governor General of Bengal 1813-23, ‘Before retracing my steps I secured three or four negatives of the splendid peaks around the glacier. One, a sugar-loaf-looking mountain called Mount Moira, 22,621 feet high, was a fine object and came out grandly in my pictures’, (B.J.P., 1 April 1870, p. 149).Bourne no. 1545.
Dates
- Creation: 1866
Creator
- From the Fonds: Marion and Co (Organization)
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Language of Materials
English
Originator(s)
Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912, photographer
Finding aid date
2010-12-10 16:28:21+00:00
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