From 10 miles W. of Afşin (Yarpuz) showing much snow on the N. face of Taurus mountains in July

Department Archive
Collection BSA SPHS Image Collection
Reference No. BSA SPHS 01/1292.3310
Level Item
Description Glass negative, half plate size, a copy negative.
Dimensions 16 x 12 cm
Place Yarpuz
Dates 1891
Donor/Creator Munro, Mr John Arthur Ruskin
Project Hogarth Travels 1891-1904
Scope and Content Part of a group of images from the 1891 travels of Hogarth and Munro in Anatolia as described in Hogarth's 1896 book, A Wandering Scholar in the Levant. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Taurus: from 10 m, W. of Yarpuz (Arabissus) showing much snow on N. face of Taurus in Jul.".
Notes Date attributed to the year in which Hogarth and Munro explored parts of Anatolia - see A Wandering Scholar in the Levant (1896) and 'Modern and Ancient Roads in Eastern Asia Minor'. Supplementary Papers of the Royal Geographical Society 3(5), 1893.