Cup of tea next to a tiny model of a screaming tiger and a box of tea in the background
Happy #NationalTeaDay - our librarians favourite tipple!
She's currently drinking peppermint oolong so the library smells of mint ♡ #tea #looseleafisbest
Archive boxes and bound volumes on shelving
Archive boxes and small bound volumes on shelving
Yesterday's ##archive30 was #archivestorage. We're not as neat as the big guns ( @mrcwarwick.bsky.social & @romanpalace.bsky.social ) but we try our best!
Picture of a sharpie on a pile of post-it and notebooks
Our librarian is out for the day as she's part of the librarians review panel for the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize run by the Wilbur & Niso Smith foundation. The panel pick the longlist & the shortlist so she's had a lot of reading to do!
Book of bound catalogues showing detached covers and mull ready for casing in
Rebound book of catalogues showing join on spine between old spine and new
Today's #Archive30 is #ArchiveConservation
Over the last few years our librarian has been slowly improving her conservation skills in paper repair and #bookbinding - so we can now do repairs like this resewing and spine repair on a catalogue book in-house!
Exterior of Burfords panorama
The club owns a couple of booklets describing Burfords panoramas of the Alps. These also include sketches of how the panoramas looked with a key to places of interest. They offered a glimpse of travel for a few shillings .
Depiction of the inside of Burfords panorama
The Panorama in Leicester square was built to display huge (20 - 30 feet) panoramas of exotic locations (and sometimes just london) for viewing by the public. These were huge immersive paintings designed to give the feeling of being in the space -
Fold out sheet showing a sketch of Mont Blanc with marked features of interest
Today's #archive30 is #unusualarchives. Bit difficult for us and none of what we have is unusual to mountaineers - even if it might be to other people!
But this fold out panorama is rare in that it records Burfords panorama in Picadilly rather than the real landscape ...
Today's #Archive30 is #SomethingBig
As its a Sunday- and our librarian failed to schedule anything - we're reposting this gem about one of the largest items in our collection!
Victorian mountaineers sat by a cairn - alpine club easter meet around 1860
Early 20th century climbers sat by an alpine hut and camera
Magazines from several mountaineering clubs
Page with photographs from diary - shows climbers climbing the Pen y pass crack
Today's #archive30 is #CommunityArchives We collect items relating to the community of the Alpine Club, but also the wider mountaineering world - both in the UK and abroad
Watercolour of a mountaineering party in the early 1800s have breakfast on an ice bridge. By John Auldjo. Don't do this at home!
Today's #Archive30 is #CataloguingCollections In a perfect coincidence we've just (as in literally yesterday) added details of our art holdings to the Museum Data Service!
You can explore our collection here -
museumdata.uk/object-searc...
Cartoon showing injured victorian mountaineers roped together abd on their into dinner
Today's #Archive30 is #SportsArchive - which isnt too difficult for us!
We've gone with this cartoon of the AC going into dinner - a reminder that while mountaineering isn't regarded as an extreme sport nowadays it certainly was!
Back of a painting with labels showing loans to two exhibitions and previous owners Charles Warren and George Duncan
Today's #Archive30 is #ArchivePast Its always fascinating to find out about the history of objects we own - and sometimes that history is easy to see! The back of Vevay Sunrise by Ruskin shows its previous owners & exhibition loans - including Charles Warren who donated it to the club.
Lego diorama of Mount Fuji
Did our librarian forget about #Archive30 until someone liked a post from last year?
Enjoy this lego model of Mount Fuji as compensation!
#somethingsmall #smallforamountain
Four men in edwarduan climbing gear roped together on the ridge of a rooftop. The edge of trafalgar square can be seen below them
A newspaper page reporting on Canadian alpine guides roof climbing in london
Four guides on a rooftop with Nelson s column in the background
We hope everyone has a good Easter break. In celebration of which enjoy these pics of Canadian guides on London rooftops from 1911
Four victorian mountaineers
Can't help but feel that only one of these guys knew the camera was there.
And if anyone knows who these fine gentlemen are let us know - the back of this is just questions marks and (possibly) Ulrich Almer. #mountaineers #victorians
We don't often repost the club lectures but this promises to be something special - a truly fascinating tale told by a great speaker #Norway #mountains #friendship
Mug with Mont Blanc painting by Loppe
Ever wanted to own a Loppe? Well now you can - or at least a Loppe mug or tea towel.
We've now got a shop on @artukdotorg.bsky.social :-) We'll be adding other items featuring images from the collection - so if you've got any requests let us know! #mountains #mugs
shop.artuk.org/marketplace/...
Webpage screenshot showing title of exhibition - The Beginning and the end, Ruskin, Mountains and the picturesque together with a picture of a watercolor of a mountain
The answer to yesterday's question was #Ruskin!
This is a rare opportunity to view the club's Ruskin watercolours - the first time they've been shown in the UK since the club moved to Charlotte Rd.
Starting on the 14th April - bit.ly/4svpvds
(The librarian will also have some books on display)
We wish we had Turners!
Stack of early 1800s books bound in leather and marble papers on the topic of the English Lakes
Our librarian is grabbing books for the next exhibition - which is on ART!
Any guesses as to which paintings we're putting with these? #books #exhibitions #picturesque
Homepage of he Alpine Club website. has a picture of a mountaineer on snow and links to joining and route reports.
The website is back!
alpineclub.org
The @alpineclub.bsky.social website is currently down - but we're working on it!
It's probably worth reminding people that the website is managed by club volunteers - so fixes might be a bit slower.
But you can always tour our collection on Bloomberg - guides.bloombergconnects.org/en-US/guide/...
Red leather covered panel
English paring knife, pared red leather and leather shavings.
Range of sharpening stones
Periodically we send our librarian on courses to expand her skills - and she's just spent a couple of days @citylit.bsky.social learning to pare leather and sharpen knives so she can expand the range of books repairs she can tackle. #bookbinding
New podcast! Talking with Caroline Schaumann about Humboldtian science in the mountains - feeling, failure, and queer sensibilities + 19th C. mountaineering in print, archive and film #EnvHist #Mountaineering #Alps #Andes
shorturl.at/tVj9T
@adambutterworth.bsky.social
@alpineclublib.bsky.social
Frontispiece from Mercurius Helveticus
Cover of Climbs in Japan and Tibet. A blue silk japanese stab binding
Finally we have books that should be put away! Happy #worldbookday to you all!
Cover of Tibet the Mysterious. Green cloth with a large compass design with astrological signs surround it
Front page of Narrative of An Ascent to the Smmit of Mont Blanc by John Auldjo. Dated 1750
And there's the exhibition research books ... one of these is for a future AC exhibition and one is for an exhibition we might be loaning items to ...
Book called Artists of the Alpine Club by Peter Mallalieu
Next up - the book thats always on her desk because she needed it two minutes ago and never puts it back ...
Pile of art books - Frederic Church and the landscape oil sketch is on the top
More art books - Ruskin and the light of nature is on the top
It's #worldbookday and we couldn't really choose between pur books because we love them all. So this a thread about the books on our librarian's desk.
And we begin with - these all need cataloguing ...
Black and white watercolour of climbers bivouacing in a cave. Illuminated with a single lantern climbers in early 20th century gear rest, talk, and prepare a fire
Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is 'Art that explores home' for Catherine Opie: To Be Seen at National Portrait Gallery 🏡@artukdotorg.bsky.social
We're sharing Rest after Toyle by Henry Willink - which perfectly captures the sense of home and community that mountaineers find on the mountains.