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The Byzantine Institute and Dumbarton Oaks fieldwork records and papers

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks
Collection Identifier: MS.BZ.004
Scope and Contents: This collection contains fieldwork records and papers produced by the staff of the Byzantine Institute and Dumbarton Oaks, as well as Thomas Whittemore and Paul Underwood, between the 1920s and 2000s. It is comprised of correspondence, minutes, financial records, logbooks, fieldwork notebooks, research notes, ground plans, maps, oversize drawings, tracings, paintings, photographs, films, newspaper clippings, and publication materials. The collection is organized by the method of creation and...

Edward Eliopoulos photographs of Mani, Greece

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks
Collection Identifier: PH.BZ.019
Scope and Contents: The collection comprises 199 photographic prints by Edward Eliopoulos documenting Byzantine churches in Mani, Greece. Eliopoulos produced black and white photographs and color slides during his frequent visits to Mani between 1958 and 1980. Included are 94 black and white photographs and 105 color photographs. (ICFA does not have any of Eliopoulos’s original negatives or any of the original slides from which the color photographs were produced.) The photographs depict 17 churches in Mani,...

Natalia Teteriatnikov photographs of Byzantine art and architecture

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks
Collection Identifier: PH.BZ.027
Scope and Contents: The collection includes black and white negatives, black and white photographic prints, and color slides depicting Byzantine religious architecture, frescoes, mosaics, icons, and manuscripts in Turkey (Cappadocia and Istanbul primarily), Georgia, Russia, Ukraine, Greece, Italy, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, and France. The photographs were taken by Natalia Teteriatnikov as part of her research on Byzantine art and architecture. It also includes a group of glass negatives of bronze crosses and icons...

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...

Early archaeological projects associated with Thomas Whittemore

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks
Collection Identifier: MS.BZ.017
Scope and Contents: This collection contains papers, photographs, and drawings dating from the 1910s through the early 1930s that relate to excavation projects conducted in Egypt and Bulgaria. The materials include excavation reports, fieldwork and research notes, transcriptions from publications, translations of texts, citations, and correspondence, as well as rubbings, drawings, watercolor paintings, and photographs. While a portion of the collection reflects original observations made in the field, the...