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Byzantine black and white mounted photograph collection
FOUND IN:
Dumbarton Oaks
Collection Identifier: PH.BZ.001
Scope and Contents:
The collection includes over 75,000 mounted black and white photographic prints of Byzantine art, architecture, and archaeology, its bulk being from the fourth through the fifteenth century, along with corresponding negatives where available. The emphasis is on materials that originated in the Byzantine empire and neighboring cultures: Italy, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Slovenia, Romania, Russia, Armenia, and Georgia, as well as Greece, Syria,...
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...
Arthur Kingsley Porter photographs of architecture and manuscripts
FOUND IN:
Dumbarton Oaks
Collection Identifier: PH.BZ.007
Scope and Contents:
This collection includes selected duplicate photographs from Arthur Kingsley Porter's collection housed in the Fine Arts Library at Harvard University, which is comprised of images of medieval architecture and sculpture taken by Porter and his wife, Lucy. These photos were printed from original nitrate negatives owned by the Fine Arts Library at Harvard University in the 1980s. The nitrate negatives were subsequently destroyed. These duplicate photographs depict Byzantine and Medieval...
Paul Atkins Underwood research papers
FOUND IN:
Dumbarton Oaks
Collection Identifier: MS.BZ.019
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...
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...
Kurt Weitzmann photographs of manuscripts, 1980s-1990s
FOUND IN:
Dumbarton Oaks
Collection Identifier: PH.BZ.008
Scope and Contents:
The collection consists of photographs of pages of Greek, Latin, and ancient manuscripts taken by Kurt Weitzmann. The collection of nearly 17,000 black-and-white photographs duplicates the Kurt Weitzmann Archive at Princeton University.
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- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 1
- Underwood, Paul A. (Paul Atkins), 1902-1968 1
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- Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 1
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- Gardens, Mogul Empire -- India -- Photographs. 1
- Gardens, Persian -- Iran -- Photographs. 1
- Georgia 1
- Germany 1
- Glass plate negatives 1
- Gospel book 1
- Graffiti 1
- Hungary 1
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian -- Photographs. 1
- Imperial portrait 1
- India -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Photographs. 1
- Inscription 1
- Inscriptions 1
- Iran -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Photographs. 1
- Islamic architecture -- Iran -- Isfahan -- Photographs. 1
- Islamic architecture -- Iran -- Photographs. 1
- Islamic decoration and ornament -- Iran -- Photographs. 1
- Islamic gardens -- Iran -- Photographs. 1
- Istanbul riots 1
- Jerusalem 1
- Jordan 1
- Kariye Camii 1
- Kozjak 1
- Kurşunlu 1
- Lagoudera 1
- Landscape photographs 1
- Lantern slides 1 ∧ less
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- Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1940- 2
- Underwood, Paul A. (Paul Atkins), 1902-1968 2
- Akbar, Emperor of Hindustan, 1542-1605 1
- Der Nersessian, Sirarpie, 1896-1989 1
- Downey, Glanville, 1908-1991 1
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