File 2 - Geoffrey Barham Johnson album, volume 2/2, 'Crossing Markerfljót'

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JCPP/Barham-Johnson/2

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Geoffrey Barham Johnson album, volume 2/2, 'Crossing Markerfljót'

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Album 245 x 295 x 45mm with green velvet cover photographic prints in an album

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Johnson, Geoffrey Barham

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The photographs in the album are as follows:

  1. Crossing Markerfljót

  2. The Deep

  3. Atmospheric Denudation

  4. Reydarvatn

  5. Pumice at Hekla

  6. Galtalækur

  7. Group at Galtalækur

  8. The Foss

  9. Hekla & Wool Drying

  10. Rangá from Island

  11. Ranga & Upper Island

  12. Corded Lava, Hekla

  13. Hekla, the lava hand

  14. En route, summit in cloud

  15. New SW from Hekla

  16. 1846 lava, Hekla

  17. Traveller on Snow

  18. Guides

  19. Hekla 9.50pm

  20. Biotfell 9.30pm

  21. Ponies swimming

  22. Thjorsá Ferry

  23. Helgatherm, a boss in a liparite layer

  24. Brattholt Gorge

  25. Hruni

  26. Family at Brattholt

  27. The Dyke

  28. Basalt in Gorge

  29. Gullfoss

  30. Gullfoss Lower Fall

  31. Edges of Fall into Gorge

  32. Gorge below Gullfoss

  33. Geysir from Havkadal

  34. Geysir from Tungufljót

  35. Geysir Mound

  36. Geysir and sinter from Blesi

  37. Geysir in Eruption [1]

  38. Geysir in Eruption [2]

  39. Geysir Tube after an Eruption

  40. Lower Set Hot Springs

  41. Blesi

  42. Cooking in Blesi

  43. Little Geysir, Quiet

  44. Litle Geysir, Erupting

  45. Strokkur

  46. Austurhlid

  47. Millenial Card

  48. Funeral Board, Laugarvatn

  49. The Stepping Stones

  50. Road to Geysir

  51. Brúará up from Bridge

  52. Skógar by Brúará

  53. Brúará down from Bridge

  54. Brúará

  55. An Iceland 'Laundry'

  56. Laugarvatn Farm

  57. Washing in Hot Springs, Laugarvatn

  58. Skógar woods Hot Spring and Hekla

  59. Kalfstindar

  60. The Hornito

  61. Pack train descending Hrafnagjá

  62. Hrafnagjá

  63. Kaldarhofdti south of Thingvallavatn

  64. Hengill south of Thingvallavatn

  65. Thingvallavatn from Hrafnagj

  66. Ropy Lava Thingvellir

  67. Thingvellir, Parsonage

  68. Thingvellir from Parsonage

  69. Thingvellir, Upper fall of Oxera

  70. Nikolasagjá

  71. Thingvellir, Hrafnabjòrg, Church, Parsonage

  72. Thingvellir, Rift in lava near hotel

  73. Thingvellir, Alamnagjá & hotel

  74. Thingvellir, the Bridge

  75. Thingvallavatn from Alamnagjá

  76. The Murderesses' Pool

  77. Alamnagjá, down

  78. Alamnagjá, up

  79. Lava sheet near Rekjavik

  80. Surface of lava

  81. Native pack train

  82. Ellidaá (the salmon river)

  83. Waterfalls emerging from under a lava stream near Gilsbakki

  84. Snorri's bath, Revkholt

  85. Ice curtain in Surlshellir

  86. Glymur

  87. Isafjördur

  88. The creeping of the sea fog Yopnafjördur

  89. Akureyri & Eyjafjördur

  90. Sevdisfjörlur

  91. Crossing Láng Jökull

  92. 'Ceres' weighing anchor

  93. North Eastern Kjalfell in distance [a panoramic photograph folded and inserted between the pages]

  94. Láng Jökull S.E. side [a panoramic photograph folded and inserted between the pages]

Slotted between the pages of this album is a letter to John C. Watt, Jesus College Cambridge, from Walter H. Tribe, Egland, Honiton, dated 30 Nov 1900, in which he encloses eighteen of his own photographs of their visit to Iceland. The photographs have been extracted and are enclosed in the same box. The photographs are inscribed in pencil on the reverse:

  1. Preparing cod fish

  2. Krisuvik

  3. Krisuvik

  4. Krisuvik

  5. Krisuvik

  6. Krisuvik

  7. Krisuvik

  8. Hecla

  9. Hecla

  10. Hecla

  11. Hecla

  12. Rekjavik

  13. Thórsmörk

  14. Thórsmörk

  15. Eyjafjalla Jökull

  16. A photograph of a river with an illegible inscription

  17. A photograph of one man sitting and another standing by a geysir

  18. A group of five men on a ship

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