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“A HISTORICAL SURVEY: THE POSITION OF THE DEËSIS”, 1930s-1940s

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks
Item Identifier: MS.BZ.004, Subgroup 2, Series 2, Box 31, Folder 302/303/304, Folder 302/303/304-003
Scope and Contents:

Fieldwork reports, notes, and drafts for publications relating to the Deësis mosaic panel in Hagia Sophia.

A. P. [Alexandre Piankoff] and V.R. [Vladimir Rayevsky], Miscellaneous writings about Hagia Sophia and the Byzantine Institute's role in the conservation of Hagia Sophia, 1930s - 1940s

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks
File Identifier: MS.BZ.004, Subgroup 2, Series 2, Boxes 33 - 34, Folder 327
Scope and Contents:

This series contains fieldwork reports, notes, and drafts for publications on Hagia Sophia, Kariye Camii, and Kalenderhane, written between the 1930s and 2000s.

A.A. Reformatskii, 1961

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks
File — Box 2: Series Series 2, Folder: 66Identifier: MS.PC.001, Series 2
Scope and Contents: Includes professional correspondence as well as various notes and attachments, between Knorozov and other scholars and institutions in the Soviet Union and abroad. The few personal letters are New Year/Christmas greetings. Recurring subjects of the letters are theoretical linguistics, Maya languages and writing, Peru writing/notation systems, archaeology of Kuril Islands, and publishing. Correspondence with David Kelley, Michael and Sophie Coe, Tatiana Proskouriakoff, Thomas Barthel, Norman...

Abydos, ca. 1920s, 1920s

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks
Sub-Series Identifier: MS.BZ.017, Series 4, Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents:

The oversize rubbings and tracings contained in these folders were reproduced by Alexandre Piankoff in several articles published after Thomas Whittemore’s death in 1950 in Les Cahiers Coptes and the Bulletin de la Société d’Archéologie Copte. According to Piankoff, Whittemore identified the crosses in the Osireion during the Egypt Exploration Society’s 1927-1928 season at Abydos.

“ACCOUNT OF ADVANCES paid by Mr. Whittemore at Istanbul in 1934”, 1934

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks
File Identifier: MS.BZ.004, Subgroup 1, 2, Box 21, Folder 281
Scope and Contents:

Series II contains financial reports, logbooks, bank statements, vouchers, and checks. It documents the financial history of the fieldwork projects executed by the Byzantine Institute and Dumbarton Oaks between the 1930s and 1960s.

Receipt from Beatrix Farrand to Harvard University (Dumbarton Oaks) for a check from John Thacher, October 28, 1946 Digital

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks / Collection: Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives / Series: Correspondence / Sub-Series: Plant Materials and Beatrix Farrand Agent Accounts / Sub-Group: Beatrix Farrand, Agent, Account Papers
File — Box: C, Folder: 6, item: 10Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, C6:IMS 1946.10.28
Scope and Contents:

Receipt from Beatrix Farrand to Dumbarton Oaks for a $150 check from John Thacher for seeds and bulbs for Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C.

Receipt from Beatrix Farrand to Harvard University (Dumbarton Oaks) for payment to John H. van Zonneveld Comp., July 1, 1946 Digital

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks / Collection: Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives / Series: Correspondence / Sub-Series: Plant Materials and Beatrix Farrand Agent Accounts / Sub-Group: Beatrix Farrand, Agent, Account Papers
File — Box: C, Folder: 6, item: 4Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, C6:BF 1946.07.01
Scope and Contents:

Receipt from Beatrix Farrand to Dumbarton Oaks for payment made to John H. van Zonneveld Company for tulips and hyacinth bulbs for the Dumbarton Oaks Gardens, Washington, D.C. Payment was drawn from the Chemical Bank and Trust Company.

Receipt from Beatrix Farrand to Harvard University (Dumbarton Oaks) for payment to Wayside Gardens Co., December 12, 1946 Digital

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks / Collection: Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives / Series: Correspondence / Sub-Series: Plant Materials and Beatrix Farrand Agent Accounts / Sub-Group: Beatrix Farrand, Agent, Account Papers
File — Box: C, Folder: 6, item: 14Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, C6:IMS 1946.12.12
Scope and Contents:

Original and duplicate receipt from Beatrix Farrand to Dumbartons for a payment for $75.64 made to Wayside Gardens Co. for 500 tulips for the terraces at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. The check was drawn on the Bar Harbor Banking and Trust Company account. Receipt signed by Isabelle M. Stover on behalf of Beatrix Farrand.

Account statement from Davids & Royston Bulb Co., 824 Wall Street, Los Angeles, California to Beatrix Farrand, Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine, August 1, 1943 Digital

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks
File — Box C, Folder: 3, item: 19Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, C3:Davids & Royston 1943.08.01
Scope and Contents:

Account statement from Davids & Royston Bulb Co. to Beatrix Farrand indicating account balance is paid.

Account statement from Davids & Royston Bulb Co., 824 Wall Street, Los Angeles, California to Beatrix Farrand, Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine, August 1, 1943 Digital

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks / Collection: Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives / Series: Correspondence / Sub-Series: Plant Materials and Beatrix Farrand Agent Accounts / Sub-Group: Beatrix Farrand, Agent, Account Papers
File — Box: C, Folder: 3, item: 19Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, C3:Davids & Royston 1943.08.01
Scope and Contents:

Account statement from Davids & Royston Bulb Co. to Beatrix Farrand indicating account balance is paid.

Acknowledgements of Offprints from “The Structure of St. Sophia”, ca. 1963

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks
File Identifier: MS.BZ.012, Sub-Group 1, Series 2, Folder 230
Scope and Contents: Contains material related to the publications co-authored by Robert Van Nice and William Emerson. It includes draft material, correspondence, notes, and publication copies, arranged in chronological order. Series 2 also contains correspondence specifically related to the publication of the first and second installments of architectural plates in 1965 and 1986, which are collectively known as Saint Sophia in Istanbul: An Architectural Survey. The series includes correspondence...

Acknowledgments and Offprints of “Hagia Sophia and the First Minaret Erected After the Conquest of Constantinople", ca. 1950

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks
File Identifier: MS.BZ.012, Sub-Group 1, Series 2, Folders 218-219
Scope and Contents: Contains material related to the publications co-authored by Robert Van Nice and William Emerson. It includes draft material, correspondence, notes, and publication copies, arranged in chronological order. Series 2 also contains correspondence specifically related to the publication of the first and second installments of architectural plates in 1965 and 1986, which are collectively known as Saint Sophia in Istanbul: An Architectural Survey. The series includes correspondence...

Adams, Philip Rhys, “The significance of Porphyry in Byzantine Art”, Undated

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks
File Identifier: MS.BZ.013, Series 3, Folder 115
Scope and Contents: The third series contains unpublished essays about Byzantine art and coins and Russian art and architecture. Some of these materials may relate to Thomas Whittemore’s honorary position as Keeper of Byzantine Coins and Seals at the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University to which he was appointed in 1933. They may also include student papers related to Whittemore’s teaching activities at New York University in 1927-1930. In addition, there are printed materials, including books, playbills,...

Addendum, undated

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks
Series Identifier: MS.BZ.019, MS.BZ.019-06
Scope and Contents: The collection consists of 6 boxes of records that contain: lecture and research notes; note cards; drafts for outlines and essays; bibliographies and lists of objects; and photographs of Byzantine art and architectural drawings. These items were primarily created by Paul Underwood between 1936 and 1950 and by Albert Mathias Friend, Jr. between 1945 and the mid-1950s. The collection includes Underwood’s research papers as a graduate student in the Department of Art and Archeology...

Addendum: Copy negatives and photographs of architectural sculpture, 1950s-1970s, 1950s-1970s

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks
File Identifier: MS.BZ.007, MS.BZ.007-02, MS.BZ.007-02-044
Scope and Contents:

Contains black and white photographs and negatives of Coptic architectural sculpture, primarily from Oxyrhynchos, but also including comparative material from other sites and repositories in Egypt.

Addendum: Copy negatives of column capitals, 1950s-1970s, 1950s-1970s

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks
File Identifier: MS.BZ.007, MS.BZ.007-02, MS.BZ.007-02-045
Scope and Contents:

Contains black and white photographs and negatives of Coptic architectural sculpture, primarily from Oxyrhynchos, but also including comparative material from other sites and repositories in Egypt.

Additional handwritten notes, circa 1980s

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks
File Identifier: MS.BZ.011, Subgroup 01, Series 01, Subseries 02, Folder 020
Scope and Contents:

Contains loose notes with addresses for conservators Claudia Podgorscheck and Peter Berzobohaty of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and for Byzantine scholar Cyril Mango. Also contains other handwritten notes describing photographs of sites in Istanbul from 1987 that are not in the collection.

Additional Photographs of Hagia Sophia, ca. late 1930s-1970s

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks
Sub-Series Identifier: MS.BZ.012, Sub-Group 2, MS.BZ.012-02-03, MS.BZ.012-02-03-04
Scope and Contents:

Contains various photographs of Hagia Sophia from the Byzantine Institute, Tony Marshall, and other sources, as well as from Van Nice. They are grouped by category (e.g., graffiti, photographs of plates, etc.).

Additional Printed Materials

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks
File Identifier: MS.BZ.011, Subgroup 01, Series 01, Subseries 03, Folder 023
Scope and Contents:

Contains printed materials relating to the subjects of Kariye Camii and Turkey. Materials include: Pamphlet: "Turkish-American Cooperation in Archaeology, Anatolia Through the Ages"; Copy of newspaper article: Joseph Haff, "Great Art Lines Mosque's Walls," The New York Times, July 28, 1956; Copy of extract: Thomas Mathews, The Byzantine Churches of Istanbul; Copy of extract: Two (2) unidentified guidebooks about Turkey.

Adli Bey, "Paints, Plans, Sketches, [and] Drafts", 1934 Digital

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks
File Identifier: MS.BZ.004, Subgroup 2, Series 1, Sub-Series 2, Boxes 3-24, Folder 54
Scope and Contents: This series documents the conservation, restoration, survey, and research that were conducted by the Byzantine Institute and Dumbarton Oaks fieldwork directors and staff, including Thomas Whittemore, Paul Underwood, Nicholas Kluge, Richard A. Gregory, Ernest Hawkins, and others. The contents contain fieldwork notebooks, research and bibliographic notes, drawings, sketches, charts, and ground plans from the fieldwork projects conducted in the following locations: Egypt, Turkey, Republic of...

Adli Bey, "Paints, Plans, Sketches, [and] Drafts", 1934 Digital

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks / Collection: The Byzantine Institute and Dumbarton Oaks fieldwork records and papers / Subgroup: Fieldwork papers / Series: Fieldwork notebooks and research notes / Sub-Series: Turkey: Hagia Sophia and Kariye Camii / Sub-Series: Fieldwork notebooks, Hagia Sophia
File Identifier: MS.BZ.004, Subgroup 2, Series 1, Sub-Series 2, Boxes 3-24, Folder 54
Scope and Contents: This series documents the conservation, restoration, survey, and research that were conducted by the Byzantine Institute and Dumbarton Oaks fieldwork directors and staff, including Thomas Whittemore, Paul Underwood, Nicholas Kluge, Richard A. Gregory, Ernest Hawkins, and others. The contents contain fieldwork notebooks, research and bibliographic notes, drawings, sketches, charts, and ground plans from the fieldwork projects conducted in the following locations: Egypt, Turkey, Republic of...

Administrative Material and Correspondence Relating to Publication of Articles and Architectural Plates, 1943-1980s

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks
Series Identifier: MS.BZ.012, Sub-Group 1, Series 2
Scope and Contents: Contains material related to the publications co-authored by Robert Van Nice and William Emerson. It includes draft material, correspondence, notes, and publication copies, arranged in chronological order. Series 2 also contains correspondence specifically related to the publication of the first and second installments of architectural plates in 1965 and 1986, which are collectively known as Saint Sophia in Istanbul: An Architectural Survey. The series includes correspondence...

Administrative notes on loaning and printing of photographs, July-November, 1965 Digital

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks
File — Box L, Folder: 38Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, L:RH 1965.11.05
Scope and Contents: Handwritten administrative notes by unknown person detailing photographs loaned on August 1965 to Ruth Havey possibly for print copies to be made. Ruth Havey received original four photographs of the Bowling Green and 1 of Provencal fountain July 30, 1965. A note was added in ink at top, "Handed over to Miss De Vegh's "Pending" file by Mr. Wilkins. A note was added August 1965 at the top by second unknown hand. An additional note was made by same unknown hand, "Checked on Oct. 22/65; still...

Administrative notes on loaning and printing of photographs, July-November, 1965 Digital

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks / Collection: Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives / Series: Correspondence / Sub-Series: Ruth Havey
File — Box: L, Folder: 38Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, L:RH 1965.11.05
Scope and Contents: Handwritten administrative notes by unknown person detailing photographs loaned on August 1965 to Ruth Havey possibly for print copies to be made. Ruth Havey received original four photographs of the Bowling Green and 1 of Provencal fountain July 30, 1965. A note was added in ink at top, "Handed over to Miss De Vegh's "Pending" file by Mr. Wilkins. A note was added August 1965 at the top by second unknown hand. An additional note was made by same unknown hand, "Checked on Oct. 22/65; still...

Administrative records, 1920s - 2000s

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks
subgroup Identifier: MS.BZ.004, Subgroup 1
Scope and Contents:

Focuses on the administrative and financial activities of the Byzantine Institute and Dumbarton Oaks between the 1930s and 1980s. Letters, bank statements, and logbooks document the organizations’ administrative and fieldwork history, from the formation of the Byzantine Institute to its dissolution and to its transfer to Dumbarton Oaks.

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