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Africa, North

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

Album Collection

 Sub-Series

Album Collection

Reference number: ES-PH/07
Scope and Contents

This sub-series comprises 17 albums of photographs, prints, and postcards, broadly arranged by place and/or by subject matter. It includes: glass and glasswork; Egypt, Greece and Libya by British-Italian photographer Antonio Beato; Italian Medieval and Renaissance architecture and art, including sculpture, painting and mosaics; Italian photographs; Italy and France; the UK (specifically the Ince Blundell Collection of classical and ancient sculpture) and more.

Dates: 1870 - 1943
Found in: British School at Rome Archive & Special Collections / ES, Eugénie Sellers Strong Papers / Photograph Collection

Alexander Graham Drawing Collection

 Collection

Alexander Graham Drawing Collection

Reference number: AG-DRA
Dates: 1880 - 1912
Found in: British School at Rome Archive & Special Collections / Alexander Graham Drawing Collection

Church Plans Collection

 Collection

Church Plans Collection

Reference number: PA-CHU
Scope and Contents Michael Ballance, BSR Librarian and Assistant Director from 1957 to 1962, assembled this collection of photographs depicting church plans during his time at the BSR. It totals more than 1,100 photographic prints glued on cards and it is conceived like an illustrated catalogue and visual guide to specific bibliographic resources available in the Library. Little is known about the scope of this collection and the criteria with which Ballance decided to put it together. Still, it might have...
Dates: 1957 - 1962
Found in: British School at Rome Archive & Special Collections / Church Plans Collection

Drawer Collection

 Sub-Series

Drawer Collection

Reference number: ES-PH/02
Scope and Contents 21 boxes of photographic materials spanning a wide range of subjects, places, and organisations. This sub-series is so called because during Strong's lifetime, its constituent records were originally housed in 2 chests of drawers (total 8 drawers). The bulk of materials in this collection relate to Roman art, sculpture, and antiquities in or originating from Italy, but it also features material from/relating to the Melchett Collection (UK; see also ES-PP-03.01., ES's draft...
Dates: 1870 - 1943
Found in: British School at Rome Archive & Special Collections / ES, Eugénie Sellers Strong Papers / Photograph Collection

John Bryan Ward-Perkins Directorship (1945-1974), 1928 - 1974, bulk: 1945 - 1974

 Sub-Fonds

John Bryan Ward-Perkins Directorship (1945-1974), 1928 - 1974, bulk: 1945 - 1974

Reference number: AR-07
Scope and Contents Documents from this sub-fonds record the British School at Rome activities during John Bryan Ward-Perkins's Directorship between 1945 and 1974, which lasted nearly 30 years, from the post-war period to the early 1970s. The filing system, meticulously devised for internal purposes, entailed the arrangement by academic year, starting in September and ending in June. Inbound and outbound correspondence is filed together, and incoming letters are deposited in the order they were received. This...
Dates: 1928 - 1974; Majority of material found within 1945 - 1974
Found in: British School at Rome Archive & Special Collections / AR, British School at Rome Administrative Archive

John Bryan Ward-Perkins Papers

 Fonds

John Bryan Ward-Perkins Papers

Reference number: JBWP-PP
Abstract

The John Bryan Ward-Perkins Papers are a complex assemblage of materials including drawings, photographs, slides, written notes, sketches, plans and a copious exchange of letters, both administrative and personal in nature.

Dates: 1940 - 1982
Found in: British School at Rome Archive & Special Collections / John Bryan Ward-Perkins Papers

Postcard Collection, 1880 - 1943

 Series

Postcard Collection, 1880 - 1943

Reference number: ES-PC
Scope and Contents This series comprises Eugénie Strong's personal collection of postcard albums and loose postcards, generally arranged geographically and/or in some instances, by subject matter. Many of the postcards have been used and feature messages to Strong overleaf. A prolific collector of postcards throughout her life, and particularly during her Roman years, Eugénie Strong's collection of postcards serve as a snapshot of both her own travels and those of her extensive network of friends...
Dates: 1880 - 1943
Found in: British School at Rome Archive & Special Collections / ES, Eugénie Sellers Strong Papers

Roman Society Collection

 Collection

Roman Society Collection

Reference number: SPRS
Abstract

A photographic reference library and teaching collection assembled in the late 19th to the mid 20th century by the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies (SPRS) that includes photographs, lantern slides, and lectures documenting early archaeological excavations and aiding in the study of ancient Roman culture.

Dates: 1890 - 1950
Found in: British School at Rome Archive & Special Collections / Roman Society Collection

Thomas Ashby Photograph Collection

 Sub-Fonds

Thomas Ashby Photograph Collection

Reference number: PA-TA
Abstract

Photographs, negatives, portfolios and photographic albums assembled by Thomas Ashby (1874-1931), archaeologist, topographer, bibliophile and collector.

Dates: 1890 - 1931
Found in: British School at Rome Archive & Special Collections / Thomas Ashby Photograph Collection

Tripolitania and Cyrenaica. Reports and documents, 1943

 File

Tripolitania and Cyrenaica. Reports and documents, 1943

Reference number: WDA-DOC/3
Scope and Contents This file includes reports, memoranda, lists of monuments and artefacts, a few maps and photographs relating to the state of conservation of Antiquities in Tripolitania and Cyrenaica in 1943. It was assembled by John Bryan Ward-Perkins, who was attached to the British Military Administration in that period. These materials provide an insight into the main archaeological sites and monuments of both territories by addressing the question of the future of archaeological research in this area....
Dates: 1943
Found in: British School at Rome Archive & Special Collections / WDA, War Damage Archive

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