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Architecture -- 20th century

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

Academic and personal correspondence, 1880 - 1990

 Sub-Series

Academic and personal correspondence, 1880 - 1990

Reference number: ES-PP/01
Scope and Contents This sub-series comprises correspondence, both personal and professional/academic (though primarily the latter), from a wide array of senders and organisations. Some of the major recurrent institutions represented herein include the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Rom (DAI), the British Museum (particularly the Department of Printed Books and the Department of Manuscripts, which merged with the Department of Oriental Manuscripts & Printed Books in 1973 to form the British Library),...
Dates: 1880 - 1990

Architecture and landscape, Italy and Europe

 Sub-Series

Architecture and landscape, Italy and Europe

Reference number: ES-PH/03
Scope and Contents This sub-series comprises 14 boxes of photographs and prints depicting or relating to regions in Italy and across Europe (including France, Turkey, Croatia and Libya). The images primarily depict architecture and specific architectural features, landscapes, built heritage, and art (especially in the boxes relating to Puglia). Boxes ES-PH/03/01 - ES-PH/03/05 depict architecture and landscape across Italy and Europe; boxes ES-PH/03/06 - ES-PH/03/10 depict specific regions of Italy; box...
Dates: 1870 - 1943

Building and Site records, 1911-

 Sub-Fonds

Building and Site records, 1911-

Reference number: AR-03
Scope and Contents

This sub-fonds includes records concerning the construction of the building in Valle Giulia initiated in 1911 (minutes, correspondence, plans, records relating to contractors). Documentation on subsequent changes occurred to the building, including the erection of the East Wing, and on major restoration works carried out throughout the years until the present time is also preserved together with drawings and plans.

Dates: 1911-

Cassiano dal Pozzo Series, 1904 - 1931

 Series

Cassiano dal Pozzo Series, 1904 - 1931

Reference number: TA-MSSNBS-POZ
Abstract

Manuscript notes and selection of nearly 800 photographs from the dal Pozzo-Albani drawings collection preserved in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle.

Dates: 1904 - 1931

Chatsworth papers, circa 1885-1910

 Sub-Series

Chatsworth papers, circa 1885-1910

Reference number: ES-PP/04
Scope and Contents This sub-series comprises material relating to ES's time as Librarian to the Dukes of Devonshire (1904-1909) and, before that, her husband S. Arthur Strong's time in the post (1895-1904, his death). It also includes a small amount of correspondence which predates Arthur's librarianship, including periods in the 1880s in which the 7th Duke of Devonshire's daughter Lady Louisa Egerton (1835-1907) was acting as librarian and family archivist. The materials in this sub-series include...
Dates: circa 1885-1910

City of Rome

 Sub-Series

City of Rome

Reference number: ES-PH/04
Scope and Contents This sub-series comprises 5 boxes of photographs and prints, broadly grouped by subject matter. Constituent records include photographs of architecture, palaces, buildings, the remains of the ancient city, images from various early commercial photographs (including Vittorio Alinari, Giacomo Brogi, James Anderson, the Servizio di Fotoriproduzione Capitolino, Adriano de Bonis, and Pompeo Molins), Roman sculpture, topographical maps, archaeological sites in places outside of Italy (including in...
Dates: 1870 - 1943

Eugénie Sellers Strong Papers

 Fonds

Eugénie Sellers Strong Papers

Reference number: ES
Abstract

This archive includes Eugénie Sellers Strong's academic and personal correspondence, cartes de visite, personal and biographical materials, catalogues, working papers, publications alongside an extensive collection of photographic prints and postcards.

Dates: 1846 - 1990; Majority of material found within 1880 - 1943

Fine Arts Photographic Collection

 Collection

Fine Arts Photographic Collection

Reference number: PA-FA
Abstract

The collection comprises nearly 7,000 objects, 2 albums and thousands of born-digital files and represents an outstanding resource for the study of the Fine Arts practice of British and Commonwealth artists and architects since the establishment of the Rome Prizes for Decorative Painting, Engraving, Sculpture and Architecture in 1913.

Dates: 1913

Malta -- Art and architecture in Roman provinces -- Catalogues and art collections

 Sub-Series

Malta -- Art and architecture in Roman provinces -- Catalogues and art collections

Reference number: ES-PH/06
Scope and Contents

This sub-series comprises three boxes of photographs and photographic prints, relating to archaeological sites and landscapes in Malta (ES-PH/06/01), Ancient Greek and Roman architecture, sculpture, architectural elements, and decorations from ancient Roman provinces in Italy, Syria, Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon and Germany (ES-PH/06/02).

Dates: 1870 - 1943