COLLECTION
Identifier: 40-77-40/14326.1
Duchess of Mecklenburg collection records
Dates
- 1878 - 1948
Extent
34 boxes (The Duchess of Mecklenburg collection records details the findings and correspondence of Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1856-1929). In her life she transformed from a princess to a renowned archaeologist who was committed to the practice of antiquities without any formal training. Through her excavations, and with imperial connections as well as family wealth, she assembled over 20,000 objects from 21 Iron Age (800 B.C.—A.D. 1) burial sites in Slovenia. Further documentation contains letters between auctioneers, friends, and colleagues, as well as field notes and photographs of burial sites. )General note
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- Title
- Duchess of Mecklenburg Collection records
- Status
- completed
- Author
- Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
- Date
- 2020
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- English
- EAD ID
- pea00090
Repository Details
Part of the Peabody Museum Archives Repository
The Peabody Museum Archives contains primary source materials that reflect the Museum’s archaeological and ethnographic research and fieldwork since its founding in 1866. Archival collections contain photographs, documents, papers, and records of enduring value that were created or collected by the Museum, its individual affiliates, or other related entities. The collections also document the history or provenience, as well as the creation of many of the Museum’s artifact collections. To learn more about research visits at the Peabody Museum, please see https://www.peabody.harvard.edu/research-visits.