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Hermit Range of the Selkirks Keystone View Company
Description
Stereograph showing two mountainers viewing the Hermit Range of the Selkirks at Illecillewaet Valley and Rogers Pass in British Columbia. Detailed description on verso reads, "The Illecillewaet in seen in this view springing almost from beneath the feet of the Swiss guide. The river has but slight volume, but is turbulent ; its color is a pea-green determined by glacial mud. It winds like a silver ribbon down the valley as far as we can see, and away to join the Columbia. Rogers Pass is seen at the right with the Hermit Range for its stupendous northern wall. Glaciers are borne on the shoulders of these enormous mountains 7,000 feet above the
railway in the valley. Sunrise or sunset on these ice-clad granite crags is a vision of glory; and a snowstorm seen from the valley below is a whirlwind of wonders, as it trails a skyful of snow among the colossal peaks and gorges. The person standing nearer to us than the Swiss guide is Mr. Julian M. Cochrane, one of the Keystone stereographers, who while standing among these ice-cones had still fresh in his memory the fiery belchings of Mt. Pelee [Mount Pelée] in Martinique, where with Professor Angelo Heilprin he escaped the wrath of the fire-demon as by a miracle. The contrast is very great. Yet this very region was also volcanic at no very remote
geological period. The Hot Springs at Banff remind us that the subterranean fires are not extinct. The ice-king can warm his toes at the fire."
Caption on recto reads, "Hermit Range of the Selkirks. Convergence of Illecil-lewaet Valley and Rogers Pass among Ice Peaks of the Great Glacier, B.C."
Stereograph number 13800. Title taken from recto.
Item Metadata
| Title |
Hermit Range of the Selkirks
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| Creator | |
| Publisher |
U.S.A. : Keystone View Company
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| Date Created |
[between 1910-1919?]
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| Description |
Stereograph showing two mountainers viewing the Hermit Range of the Selkirks at Illecillewaet Valley and Rogers Pass in British Columbia. Detailed description on verso reads, "The Illecillewaet in seen in this view springing almost from beneath the feet of the Swiss guide. The river has but slight volume, but is turbulent ; its color is a pea-green determined by glacial mud. It winds like a silver ribbon down the valley as far as we can see, and away to join the Columbia. Rogers Pass is seen at the right with the Hermit Range for its stupendous northern wall. Glaciers are borne on the shoulders of these enormous mountains 7,000 feet above the
railway in the valley. Sunrise or sunset on these ice-clad granite crags is a vision of glory; and a snowstorm seen from the valley below is a whirlwind of wonders, as it trails a skyful of snow among the colossal peaks and gorges. The person standing nearer to us than the Swiss guide is Mr. Julian M. Cochrane, one of the Keystone stereographers, who while standing among these ice-cones had still fresh in his memory the fiery belchings of Mt. Pelee [Mount Pelée] in Martinique, where with Professor Angelo Heilprin he escaped the wrath of the fire-demon as by a miracle. The contrast is very great. Yet this very region was also volcanic at no very remote
geological period. The Hot Springs at Banff remind us that the subterranean fires are not extinct. The ice-king can warm his toes at the fire."
Caption on recto reads, "Hermit Range of the Selkirks. Convergence of Illecil-lewaet Valley and Rogers Pass among Ice Peaks of the Great Glacier, B.C." Stereograph number 13800. Title taken from recto. |
| Extent |
1 stereograph : black and white
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| File Format |
image/jpeg
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| Language |
English
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| Notes |
Located in Box 44
Similar image: UL_1049_0019. |
| Identifier |
UL_2134_0004; UL_2134_0004
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| Collection | |
| Source |
Original Format: University of British Columbia. Library. Rare Books and Special Collections. Uno Langmann Family Collection of B.C. Photographs. UL_2134_0004
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| Date Available |
2023-02-15
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| Provider |
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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| Rights |
Image provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy, or otherwise use these images must be obtained from Rare Books and Special Collections http://rbsc.library.ubc.ca
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| Catalogue Record | |
| DOI |
10.14288/1.0425240
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Image provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy, or otherwise use these images must be obtained from Rare Books and Special Collections http://rbsc.library.ubc.ca