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Title: Die Eisgebyrge des Schweizerlandes, mit allen dabey vorkommenden Mineralien. In ihrem zusammenhang vorgestelt von G. S. Gruner.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3490; APSdigobj3490
Description: Presented by Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler, 18 July 1808.
Creator: Gruner, G. S. (Gottlieb Sigmund), 1717-1778
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; Switzerland; Mountains
Date: ca. 1800

Title: Story of Eagle Peak
Identifier(s): audio:6242; APSdigrec_3596; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 01
Description: The speaker is identified as a speaker of the Santa Ysabel dialect.
Source: Langdon, Margaret H. Diegueño text, [1963-1964]. (Mss.Rec.76);
Subject: Kumiai language; Kamia Indians--Folklore; Mountains--Folklore
Date: circa 1964

Title: Landscape: mountain view
Identifier(s): graphics:557; APSimg6015
Description: Peale #437.
Creator: Peale, Titian Ramsay, 1799-1885
Source: Titian Ramsay Peale Sketches (Mss.B.P31.15d);
Subject: Natural history; Peale, Titian Ramsay, 1799-1885; Mountains
Date: n.d.

Title: Le Tlamacas en l'Iztaccihuatl
Identifier(s): graphics:3997; APSimg5291
Description: Black and white image of a hill and ridge (Tlamacas) in front of the large mountain of Iztaccihuatl.; Image 104. Mounted albumen, 9.25x7"
Creator: Charnay, Désirée, 1828-1915
Source: Abbot-Charnay Collection (Mss.913.72.Ab23); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.913.72.Ab23-ead.xml
Subject: Native American Images; Abbot, Griffith Evans, 1850-1927; Charnay, Désirée, 1828-1915; Hills; Mountains
Date: ca. 1880

Title: Popocatapetl pris de Tlamacas
Identifier(s): graphics:3996; APSimg5292
Description: Black and white image of a mountain, Mt. Popocatapetl near Tlamacas.; Image 105. Mounted albumen, 9.25x7"
Creator: Charnay, Désirée, 1828-1915
Source: Abbot-Charnay Collection (Mss.913.72.Ab23); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.913.72.Ab23-ead.xml
Subject: Native American Images; Abbot, Griffith Evans, 1850-1927; Charnay, Désirée, 1828-1915; Mountains
Date: ca. 1880

Title: [Middle Atlantic states, showing rivers and mountains and location of sea shells on the tops of the mountains].
Identifier(s): graphics:5727; local: APSdigobj3452
Description: As early as 1741, John Bartram sent some fossil sea shells to Sir Hans Sloan; other shells were sent to his London friend Peter Collinson in 1742. He wrote to Collinson in 1743 or 1744 that he had observed such fossils everywhere, "even on the top of the mountain that separates the waters of Susquehanna and St. Lawrence." (William Darlington, Memorials of John Bartram and Humphry Marshall [Philadelphia: 1849], p. 169.) Bartram was used to making rough maps of his travels and he made no pretense of being a competent surveyor. He apologized to Collinson for a map which he said was "Clumsily done, —having neither proper instruments nor convenient time," since he was drawing by the early light of dawn or by candlelight. Franklin wrote his friend Jared Eliot on 16 July 1747 of Bartram's discoveries: The great Apalachian Mountains, which run from York [Hudson] River back of these Colonies to the Bay of Mexico, show in many Places near the highest Parts of them, Strata Sea Shells, in some Places the marks of them are in the solid Rocks. 'Tis certainly the Wreck of a World we live on! We have Specimens of those Sea shell Rocks broken off near the Tops of those Mountains, brought and deposited in our Library [the Library Company of Philadelphia] as Curiosities. If you have not seen the like, I'll send you a Piece. (The Papers of Benjamin Franklin [New Haven: Yale University Press: 1961], vol. 3, p. 169.) The endorsement on the back reads, in Franklin's hand: "Mr. Bartram's Map very curious." 650: [ca.1750s]: At61mvc
Creator: Bartram, John, 1699-1777et al
Subject: Maps; Sea shells; Mountains; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Bartram, John, 1699-1777; Middle Atlantic States--Maps.; United States--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Date: [1750s]