IDNO

LS.26698.WHI

Description

On catalogue card: "N.W. Amazon. 175.1 - 4.
1. Main Amazon stream, near mouth of Japura R.
2. Typical river view, below mouth of Negro R.
3. On Upper Amazon main stream.
4. On main stream, near Issa R.
(4 slides)."

Panoramic view of forest on bank of the upper River Amazon. [TC 09/06/1999]

Place

S America; Colombia; North West Amazon; Upper Amazon River; ?Putumayo River; ?Japura River [Issa River; Iça River; Caqueta River]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Whiffen, Thomas William

Collector / Expedition

Date

1908 - 1909

Collection Name

Whiffen CollectionTeaching Slide Collection

Source

Whiffen, Nöel H.

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Publication: Reproduced in Whiffen, T. W., 1915 as Pl. IV with the caption "Landscape on upper Amazon main stream".

See P.9255.ACH1 record for notes on Whiffen’s attitude to his forest and river environment.

Related Image: A duplicate print is at the RAI, reference 36191, was in an envelope, together with photographs of similar scenes, and annotated by Whiffen’s as "Typical photographs of the Upper Amazon Issa & Japura Rivers".
Photocopies of Whiffen prints at the RAI are in the UCMAA archive, reference W19/1/3. See Whiffen Collection record for further details on RAI collection. [TC 09/06/1999, updated JD 02/10/2019]

Source: In MAA Correspondence Box 1934 is a letter from Noel Whiffen donating his "brother's collection of lantern slides" to the museum, on behalf of the Whiffen family. Louis Clarke replied. The gift is also noted in the annual report for that year in the list of accessions (UCMAA 1934: 3), which mentions that "the collection of lantern slides has also been increased by gifts from ... Mr N. H. Whiffen ... "
For full details see Whiffen Collection record. [TC 09/06/1999, updated, JD 02/10/2019]