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.

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    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.

  • A tractor in the mountains
    Agridozer 60 C.V tractor for subsoiling work.
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    A tractor in the mountains

    Agate presents its current favorite.
    Within our collections, numerous illustrations or photographs deserve to be exhibited for their aesthetic quality or originality. Today, let's discover an original tractor from the 1960s, used for land restoration in the mountains.