Object Record
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Catalog Number |
1988.017.103.a(TR) |
Object Name |
Transparency, Lantern Slide |
Description |
This glass positive, produced by the Keystone View Company, is captioned "Roof of the World - The Majestic Himalayas, N. India." This lantern slide transparency was purchased as part of a set by President Charles C. Sherrod, Sr. for use at East Tennessee State Teachers College in 1929. The collection of transparencies purchased by Sherrod was transferred from the Archives of Appalachia to the Reece Museum in 1988. The Himalayas are a mountain range in Asia that separate the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. The Himalayas cross territories in six countries: Afghanistan, Bhutan, China, India, Nepal, and Pakistan. There is a title card that corresponds with this transparency (1988.017.103.b(TR)). Its text reads: "THE ROOF OF THE WORLD--THE HIMALAYAS, INDIA The word 'Himalaya' means the 'abode of snow.' The mountains are well named as the view so beautifully shows. Snow-capped peak rises beyond snow-capped peak and underneath the white crown of the mountain lies a sea of snowy clouds. Such is the scene from above Darjeeling, India. The Himalayas are more than a chain of mountains. They must be thought of as a mountain system, 1,500 miles long and 600 miles wide. This picture shows only a tiny bit of that great mass. These mountains are very young in comparison with the Appalachians with their rounded tips and wide fertile valleys. In the Himalayas, we see high peaks of most resistant rock, steep slopes, deep narrow valleys through which flow strong rivers. The Himalayas are the highest mountains in the world, and are nearly impassable. They form a mighty barrier between China and India. Because they are so high, and because they lie in the path of the southwest monsoons, the Himalayas have immense fields of snow and ice. One glacier extends for a distance of 100 miles between mountains which are from 20,000 to 25,000 feet high. Avalanches are common and lakes are made in valleys filled with rock waste. The high altitudes are very cold, radiation is very active in the thin air. Clouds formed part way up the sides by the partial condensation of moisture are common to all mountains. The branches of the tree in the foreground are the only sign of life." |
Date |
c. 1910s |
Place of Origin |
USA |
Material |
glass |
Subjects |
photography |
Made |
Keystone View Company |