Rivers
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 65 Collections and/or Records:
Notes about otters, June 1887
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/205
Scope and Contents
Note about freshwater otters and sea-otters, that there are madadh-uisge [freshwater otters] in Abhainn Chearrai [Abhainn Kerry/ River Kerry, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] and that a freshwater otter drowned a sea-otter at Coire Torridon at Ionnar Abh[ainn] a Choire [Mhic Nòbaill]. The text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Dates:
June 1887
Notes for lectures on 'Geographical Evolution', late 19th century
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Identifier: Coll-74/9/1
Scope and Contents
Notes for 6 lectures on 'Geographical Evolution', encompasing a wide variety of related subjects. Sir Archibald Geike looked at various geological periods and how both the areas occupied by land and water changed over time. He looked at the creation of many geological formations, at the materials they were composed of and the processes involved, including the infleunce of different elements within the natural world. He used as examples numerous locations, mostly within the British Isles but...
Dates:
late 19th century
On the Hay River, 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/48
Scope and Contents
Photograph of men camping with horses amongst the pine trees on the Hay River [Northwest Territories, Canada] on 23 October 1912.
Dates:
1870s-1930s
Paddle Boat Steamer on a River [Egypt?], 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1158
Scope and Contents
Photograph of a paddle boat steamer moored at the side of a river with a small crew of men in the wheelhouse in [Egypt?] in the early 20th century.
Dates:
1870s-1930s
Parosse Natives in Dug-Outs on Zambesi, Rhodesia, 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1019
Scope and Contents
Photograph of Parosse natives standing in dug-outs or canoes on the Zambesi River in Rhodesia in the early 20th century.
Dates:
1870s-1930s
Profile Cliff and the Second Zigzag: Also Showing the Site of the Proposed Power Station, 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1025
Scope and Contents
Photograph of the profile cliff and the second zigzag of the Third Gorge on the Zambesi River in the early/mid 20th century.
Dates:
1870s-1930s
[Reflection of Trees in the River], 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3215
Scope and Contents
Photograph of trees near a river and their reflection.
Dates:
1870s-1930s
Riddle entitled 'Aiseag na h-Aimhne', c1862
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW112/33
Scope and Contents
Riddle entitled 'Aiseag na h-Aimhne' in which an old man, an old woman and their two sons arrive at a river but the ferry can only hold a ton. The old man and woman are a ton each and their sons are half a ton each so the listener has to solve the problem of how they all get across.
Dates:
c1862
[Rio Grande], 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2915
Scope and Contents
Photograph of the [Rio Grande] with a sandbar in a river with a cliff curving around on the right hand side.
Dates:
1870s-1930s
Rio Rai doso [Ruidoso], 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2946
Scope and Contents
Photograph of the Rio Rai doso [Ruidoso] river in [New Mexico, United States] flowing next to a ranch and a mountain in the early 20th century.
Dates:
1870s-1930s