North Cape from the West (photographed near midnight), Norway.
Underwood & Underwood
Category
Photographs
Date
1890 - 1910
Materials
Card
Measurements
Card size 88 x 178 mm
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520659
Summary
An albumen print stereograph depicting North Cape from the West (photographed near midnight). Norway. The print is mounted on stiff, curved, grey card with rounded corners. The images have arched tops and square bottoms. Recto: printed in black ink on the right lower margin (42) 8993 North Cape - from the west - land of the Midnight Sun (71°N. lat.) near midnight. N. Norway. Copyright 1902 by Underwood & Underwood. In the left hand margin printed in italic print in black ink Underwood & Underwood Publishers New York, London, Toronto- Canada, Ottawa- Kansas In the right hand margin: Works and Studios Arlington N.J. Westwood N.J.. Verso there is a long and detailed description of the location, and at the bottom: "North Cape from the West (photographed near midnight). Norway" written in English, French, German, Spanish, Swedish and Russian.
Provenance
The Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986
Makers and roles
Underwood & Underwood, publisher