Braun, Adolphe
French (1812-1877)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Bernese Highlands. Rescue of the guide Jean-Michel, who fell into a crevasse of the small glacier at Grindewald, September 16, 1864."
SERIES TITLE: "Suisse" (yellow)

ca. 1865
albumen print, stereograph
7.7 x 7.3 cm. image on 8.5 x 17.4 cm. mount (dome-topped)
Gift of 3M Company: ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley
81:6562:0012

OLD GEH NUMBERS: 420703 79:1513:1
NON-GEH NUMBER: pub. series #3307

INSCRIPTION: mount-recto (letterpress) "A. Braun, a Dornach (Haut-Rhin) Suisse." verso (printed paper label) "No. 3307 Oberland Bernois. Sauvetage du guide Jean-Michel, tombe dans une crevasse du glacier interieur de Grindewald, le 16 Septembre 1864." (handwritten in ink) "Bernese Mountains, Switzerland, Y. C. G."

FRAME: yellow; rounded corners

NOTES: Catalogued 2/89, SB.

SUBJECTS:
landscape, glacier / Grindelwald
event, rescue
landscape, figures in