Photo, Print, Drawing Organ Hills. Serra dos Orgaos
About this Item
Title
- Organ Hills.
Other Title
- Serra dos Orgaos
Summary
- The Thereza Christina Maria collection is composed of 21,742 photos assembled by Emperor Pedro II (1825-91) throughout his life and donated by him to the National Library of Brazil. The collection covers a wide variety of subjects. It documents the achievements of Brazil and Brazilians in the 19th century and also includes many photographs of Europe, Africa, and North America. This view of the countryside around Rio de Janeiro was taken by George Leuzinger (1813-92), one of Brazil's foremost landscape photographers. The photograph features the Serra dos Orgaos, or Organ Hills, a national park in the state of Rio de Janeiro. The mountains were given their name by early Portuguese settlers who thought they resembled the organs in European cathedrals.
Names
- Leuzinger, George, 1813-1892 Photographer.
Created / Published
- Teresópolis, Brazil : [publisher not identified], [1865 to 1874]
Headings
- - Brazil--Rio de Janeiro--Rio de Janeiro
- - 1865 to 1874
- - Memory of the World
- - Mountains
- - National parks and reserves
- - Serra dos Orgãos (Brazil)
Notes
- - Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
- - Original resource extent: 1 photo : albumen paper, black and white ; 19.1 x 24.1 centimeters.
- - Original resource at: National Library of Brazil.
- - Content in Portuguese.
- - Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.
Medium
- 1 online resource.
Source Collection
- Thereza Christina Maria Collection
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2021669554
Online Format
- compressed data
- image