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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...

Aleksander Aleksandrovich Vasil’ev research papers and photographs

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks
Collection Identifier: MS.BZ.023
Scope and Contents:

The Aleksander Aleksandrovich Vasil’ev research papers and photographs contain his notes, correspondence, manuscript drafts, typescripts, newspaper clippings, reprints of journal articles by him and others, photographs, postcards, and an appointment calendar. The Dumbarton Oaks Archives also has holdings of Vasil'ev’s 1951 office papers and related materials and photographs.

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.

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...

Thomas Whittemore papers

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks
Collection Identifier: MS.BZ.013
Scope and Contents: The bulk of the collection consists of Thomas Whittemore’s teaching materials, correspondence, printed materials (e.g., books, playbills, and pamphlets), and photographs, which were created between the late 1800s and 1950s. The items are related to Whittemore’s teaching career at Tufts College and Columbia University before he founded the Byzantine Institute in 1930. The contents also record and illustrate Whittemore’s other activities during this period, such as his trips to Europe, as well...

Photographs of the Pyramid of the Feathered Serpent, Xochicalco, Mexico

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks
Collection Identifier: PH.PC.005
Scope and Contents:

The photographs depict the Pyramid of the Feathered Serpent at the site of Xochicalco in Mexico, both during and after restoration.

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