When the scientist gets high

Agate presents its current favorite.
Within our collections, numerous illustrations or photographs deserve to be exhibited for their aesthetic quality or originality. Today, we are climbing the Tré-la-tête glacier.

Tré-la-tête glacier, the mountain packing, 1930

This photograph was taken in 1930 over a tongue of the Tré-la-Tête glacier. It reveals the mountaineering equipment used by forest and water agents working on glaciology. The bag holder takes the photograph, as photography has been a means of study and communication since the late 1880s.

On the same subject

  • The Forester and his tent
    Plantation of hook pine trees, Canton of Chaumasse, Seyne area. Photograph taken by Eugène de Gayffier in 1877, in the context of mountain reforestation and grassing works.
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    The Forester and his tent

    Agate presents its current favorite.
    Here we are in 1877, in the Basses-Alpes, during the great mountain reforestation efforts. Through the lens of Eugène de Gayffier, a solitary tent stands watch over the freshly planted pine trees, a testament to the hard work of foresters striving to bring new life to these fragile lands.

  • Color for the New Year
    Varieties of tuberous begonias
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    Color for the New Year

    Agate invites you to start the year 2025 in color with tuberous begonias, taken from the Flore des serres et des jardins d'Europe (in French), Flora of the Greenhouses and Gardens of Europe, published by the famous horticulturist Louis Van Houtte in the mid-19th century.