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Robert L. Van Nice fieldwork records and papers

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks
Collection Identifier: MS.BZ.012
Scope and Contents: This collection documents the architectural survey of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey, conducted by Robert L. Van Nice from the late 1930s to the 1980s. The project was sponsored by William Emerson, Dean of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), from 1937 until Emerson’s death in 1957. The project was then sponsored by Dumbarton Oaks until Van Nice’s retirement in 1989. Materials in the collection include administrative records, correspondence, research...

Views of Persian and Indian architecture, monuments, gardens, and manuscripts

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks
Collection Identifier: PH.GL.004
Content Description: Views of Persian and Indian architecture, monuments, gardens, and manuscripts. The glass negatives include images of the Taj Mahal and Sikandar Bagh ("Gate of Sikandarah") in Agra, India. Most of the lantern slides were produced by commercial studios, and many are reproductions of slides in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Slides produced by Edward van Altena and the Lynvers Company are highly represented. The authorship of the glass negatives is unknown, though...