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Archaeology

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Architecture

Series Identifier: PH.BZ.001, 01
Scope and Contents:

The collection includes images from sites in the following countries: Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Switzerland, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine.

Awatovi Expedition records

Collection Identifier: 995-11, 35-126, 36-131, 38-120,39-97
Overview:

The collection documents the Peabody Museum Expedition to Awatovi (northeastern Arizona) from 1935-39, and includes historical material, financial records, field notes, diaries, photographs, drawings, correspondence, and field and artifact cards.

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,...

Edward Herbert Thompson collection of negatives

Collection Identifier: 2004.24 (A)
Overview:

This collection contains negatives of photographs taken by E. H. Thompson during his explorations of the Yucatán Peninsula (1889-1908), Minnesota (1902), and Utah (1931). Many of the photographs are of Mayan artifacts (wooden, ceramic, and stone), Mayan ruins, ancient and contemporary architecture, engravings, and landscapes.

Eugene C. Worman papers

Collection Identifier: 998-2

Frederic Ward Putnam negatives

Collection Identifier: 2004.24 (F)
Overview:

This collection contains negatives taken by Frederic Ward Putnam during an expedition to the Serpent Mound in Ohio from 1883-1888. The negatives capture camp life, landscapes and burial mounds. This expedition was a result of Professor Putnam's strong encouragement of research involving man's early occupation of the New World.

Ian Graham papers

Collection Identifier: 2004.15.2
Scope and Contents: These papers mainly consist of the professional activities of British Mayanist Ian Graham, including the activities and recording methods of CMHI, or the Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphics program at Harvard University as well as Graham’s MacArthur Fellowship. It also contains personal material and correspondence, as well as Graham’s address book. Some other topics and activities represented in these files are fieldwork permits, publications records, antiquities trade articles, magazines, DVDs,...

Samuel K. Lothrop negatives

Collection Identifier: 2004.24 (D)
Overview:

This collection includes negatives Samuel K. Lothrop took during Peabody Museum-sponsored expeditions to South and Central America, Antigua, and Puerto Rico. Many of the black and white negatives depict ancient ruins, artifacts, architecture, landscapes, and indigenous people engaged in daily and festive activities.

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...