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Excavations (Archaeology) -- Italy

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Eugénie Sellers Strong Papers

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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

Papers, 1846 - 1990

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Papers, 1846 - 1990

Reference number: ES-PP
Scope and Contents This series comprises Eugénie Sellers Strong's personal papers, including her correspondence, records relating to the administration and the Library of the BSR, catalogues of private collections and libraries (by ES and others), records relating to ES's time as Librarian to the Dukes of Devonshire (1904-1909), working papers, lectures, research notes, publications, works-in-progress, and a number of unpublished works and translations by ES. The correspondence in this series is...
Dates: 1846 - 1990

Peter Paul Mackey Collection

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Peter Paul Mackey Collection

Reference number: PA-PPM
Abstract

Original set of photographs taken by Peter Paul Mackey (1851-1935) and deposited at the British School at Rome in the early 1910s.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1890 - 1910

Photograph Collection, 1870 - 1943

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Photograph Collection, 1870 - 1943

Reference number: ES-PH
Scope and Contents This series comprises Strong's personal collections of photographic and related visual materials, spanning 13 sub-series. It covers a vast range of subjects, artistic schools and styles, artistic / architectural / archaeological paradigms, and geographical locations. The material contained herein includes: images for publications, including Paul Arndt and Walther Amelung's 'Photographische Einzelaufnahmen Antiker Sculpturen' (1893); Roman and Greek sculpture and statuary; artworks;...
Dates: 1870 - 1943

Roman Society Collection

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Roman Society Collection

Reference number: PA-SPRS-BSR
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

Russell Meiggs Papers

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Russell Meiggs Papers

Reference number: RM-PP
Scope and Contents This collection consists of the personal papers and photographs of historian and archaeologist Russell Meiggs. The papers include letters and other types of correspondence, as well as, autograph copies of lectures on Pompeii and other archaeological subjects. There are also manuscript copies of publications by Meiggs. The majority of photographs and film negatives are of the port city of Ostia, probably taken during excavations in the 1920s and 1930s, but also include personal...
Dates: 1920 - 1989

Thomas Ashby Notes and Notebooks

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Thomas Ashby Notes and Notebooks

Reference number: TA-MSSNBS
Abstract

Thomas Ashby's manuscript and typewritten notes and notebooks on archaeological and topographical subjects. Notes on various manuscipt collections are also present, including Asnby's research on the dal Pozzo-Albani drawing collection at Windsor Castle.

Dates: 1890 - 1931

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