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Photocopies: Breasted, J. H., documents relating to tomb

  • Annotated photocopies made from a folder marked 'Friends and Colleagues' from among the papers of J. H. Breasted, in Chicago, Oriental Institute.
  • Includes photographs showing:
    • 'Carter appears not young'
    • Transportation of objects from Tutankhamun's tomb to the railway.
    • 'Probably John Hartmen (Austrian photographer) working in Cairo Museum'.
    • J. H. Breasted and A. Gardiner working in the Cairo Museum, etc.

Breasted, James Henry

Seal impressions: Tutankhamun excavation documentation - Carter's notes for planned publication

Seal impressions. Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.

  • i. Letters from James Henry Breasted to Howard Carter, 1923, on an article in Harpers Magazine, and Tutankhamun's seal impressions.
  • ii. James Henry Breasted's manuscript report on the eight types of seal impression found in Tutankhamun's tomb and 2 letters from Breasted to Carter dated 03-01-1923 and 15-02-1923.
  • iii, iv. Two folders marked "Seals A-H" and "Seals I-S", Carter's annotated typewritten reports with his draft and finished pencil drawings of each type of seal impression, with some manuscript and a few typewritten notes.
  • v. One record card with notes on seals, extracted from a letter from Breasted, dated 16-03-1923, copied by A. C. Mace.
  • Later typed note, dated 1960, with A. H. Gardiner's translation for Seal C.
  • Annotated photograph (Burton (sic) P0274b), almost certainly taken by Carter, of the outermost doorway showing the blocking intact with seals.

Breasted, James Henry

James Henry Breasted | Nubian Photographs Collection

  • Breasted photographs
  • Collection
  • prints 1924-1957 - negatives 1905-1906

Photographs of Nubian Temples made during Breasted's expedition, 1905-6. Photostats of temple plans annotated with Chicago, Oriental Institute photograph numbers.

Breasted, James Henry