Name/Title
StereographEntry/Object ID
2023.055.3.0263Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is of a small group of cows standing in a shallow section of a stream, a man is in a rowboat behind the cattle while a ship and village are visible in the background. Above the image "T319 (Star)" is printed, below the image "V15797T Where the Sea Reaches Far In among the Mountains, Gudvangen's Outlook over Naerofjord, Norway." is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company Copyrighted, Underwood & Underwood Inc. Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
V15797
GUDVANGEN'S OUTLOOK OVER THE NAEFROFJORD, NORWAY
We are at the head of the Naerofjord, looking nearly northward, the direction in which those vessels whill go when they steam away around that point of land and down their narrow channel between the mountains, to reach the Sognefjord of which this is one arm. Behind us the Naerodal (pronunciation) reaches up southwestward, walled in by mountains just like these.
There is now town here - only a handful of houses - for as soon as the summer tourist season is over there are but scanty means of livelihood. People are so shut in here at the head of the fjord, that for several months in midwinter they do not acutally see the sun at all. On the other hand, the clsoe settting of the mounatin walls makes the place surprisingly warm in midsummer. The cows wade out in the water to cool off. The water is, of cours, salt, and at high tide it lies much deeper over the little beach before us.
In most places as small as Gudvangen the coutnry people depend largely on goats for their household supplies of milk, butter and cheese, as goats can be kept where the pasturage is too scanty and inaccessible for cows, but a great many tourists call here in summer on their way to Stalheims in the Naerodal and cow's milk is necessary for the hotel tables. The streamers that are this moment adding so much to the picturesque effect have brought tourists and are waiting for their return from local excursions.
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