From Titkana Peak Overlooking Hunga Glacier

Author: Walcott, Charles D (Charles Doolittle) 1850-1927..Subject: Mount Robson Park (B.C.)..Type: Photographic print. Landscape. Panoramic photographs..Date: 1913..Topic: Burgess Shale (B.C.). Paleontology. Canada. Photography, Panoramic. National parks and reserves. Provincial parks and reserves. Mountains. Scientific expeditions..Standard number: Walcott 985..Physical description: Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and white; Size: Neg. 10" film; Type of Image: Landscape; Panoramic photographs; Medium: Photographic print..Notes: Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927), fourth Secretary of the Smithsonian (1907-1927), was a paleontologist whose research focused on North American Cambrian fossils. He conducted field work in the United States and Canada, and, in 1909, while in the Canadian Rockies near Field, British Columbia, discovered what has come to be known as the Burgess Shale. The shale contained fossils that provided the foundation for study of the Cambrian Period in Western North America. Neither Walcott nor the scientific community realized the importance of this discovery, but the Burgess Shale came to be recognized as one of the most important geologic findings of the 20th century. Walcott is equally well-known for his method of photographing topographies for scientific documentary purposes, producing stunning images of these majestic landscapes..Summary: Charles Doolittle Walcott's panoramic image is from the southwest slope of Titkana Peak, overlooking Hunga Glacier, Mount Robson Park, British Columbia (now Alberta), Canada. This view begins on the left at Snowbird Pass, and passes to the right by Phillips Mountain and Chushina Glacier below, next Lynx Mountain in the distance and in the center the snow-capped Mount Resplendent (11,173 ft.). Robson Peak (13,068 ft.) is partially shrounded in mist. Iyatunga (9,000 ft.) rises as a black mass above Hunga Glacier, and to the right across Robson PassMcLaurin Mountain with Mumm Peak (9,740 ft.) at the extreme right. Walcott used a Cirkut Outfit Camera to capture the image..Place: Alberta. British Columbia. Canada. Phillips Mountain (Alta.). Lynx Mountain (Alta.). Mount Resplendent (Alta.). Hunga Glacier (Alta.). McLaurin Mountain (Alta.). Canadian Rockies (B.C. and Alta.). Rocky Mountains..Persistent URL:Link to data base record ( http://siris-sihistory.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=all&source=~!sichronology&uri=full=3100001~!11330~!0#focus ) ..Repository:Smithsonian Archives - History Div..View more collections from the Smithsonian Institution. ( http://collections.si.edu )