Caption
View of Amsteg with the Gotthard Massif, Switzerland, Chemin du St. Gothard : Les ponts à Amsteg, Views and landscapes in Europe, Africa and Asia, Geographical Sculpture Gallery, collected by MJ Broekhuijsen, Head of a school in Amsterdam, stereograph, Numbered 843. bottom left of photo, annotation: 'Alpine Switzerland', annotation: 'The village of AMSTEG lies at the entrance to the Madeiran Valley, 15 km north of Göschenen on the road across and the railway line through the St. Gothard., The railway line (in the background) shows a series of tunnels and viaducts here. Two viaducts are visible in the picture. The entrance to the tunnel is through, the trees hidden from view.', Uri, publisher: Merkelbach & Co., Amsterdam, compiler (person in literature): Martien Johan Broekhuijsen, c. 1905, photographer, compiler (person in literature), pasteboard, paper, albumen print, height 89 mm x width 178 mm, Part of a group of 52 stereophotos used in primary education as a supplement to school charts. The entire series consisted of 274 items in 10 categories (A to K)., railway, train, village, mountains, Amsteg, A sepia-toned landscape showing a valley with a river running through the foreground and an arched stone bridge crossing it, a cluster of small buildings with pitched roofs and a church with a steeple nestled at the base of a steep, forested hillside, a taller viaduct or railway bridge spanning across a rocky slope to the right, terraced fields and trees scattered along the lower slopes and riverbanks, and distant layered mountain ridges fading into the background under an empty sky.
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Photo12/Liszt Collection
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