Tutankhamun Excavation. Howard Carter's notes on various subjects.

• i. General note on tomb robbery.
• ii. Jewellery. References to pectoral (261P(2)), docket from box (267), etc.
• iii. Three pages of manuscript notes on 'The last and final season's work in the Tomb of Tutankhamun', including references to the sarcophagus, shrines, etc.
• iv. A note on the contents of rooms and disturbance by ancient robbers.
• v. Two handwritten notes concerning tomb plan development in the New Kingdom.

Penelope Fox's notes on furniture from the tomb of Tutankhamun. Perhaps for a planned publication.

• Photographs of six cubit rods from the tomb of Tutankhamun.
• All rods are made of wood.
• Carter object numbers:
  • (50dd'), now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 61315.
  • (50dd''), now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 61316.
  • (50ee'), now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 61317.
  • (50ee''), now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 61318.
  • (50ff'), now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 61319.
  • (50ff''), now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 61320.

Rainbow McLean's photographs of box (21), from the tomb of Tutankhamun, now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 61467.

• Copies of notes and photographs for boxes from Tutankhamun's tomb.
• The measurements of the boxes, etc., were copied from the original Tutankhamun Archive documentation by A. H. Gardiner for Myrtle Broome.

• Photographs and colour transparencies of a scale model of the tomb of Tutankhamun, created for a display in Highclere Castle in 1988.
• Model created by Orchard Brothers, Historical model makers.

• Professor H. Beinlich's photographs and his transcription of its texts
• Innermost coffin (255) of Tutankhamun, gold, in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 60671.
• TAA ii.14.1-56 (photos), 57 (transcriptions).

• Fourteen postcards, many feature Harry Burton's photographs taken during the excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun.
• Some were produced by Lehnert & Landrock.
• Others produced by Bruce Co., London.
• Showing various objects from the tomb of Tutankhamun.

A set of lithographs made for the Tutankhamun exhibition held in the British Museum, London, in 1972.

• Set of contact prints made from The Times Tutankhamun photographs.
• Most of the photographs were taken by The Times photographer.
• There are also a significant number of copies of Harry Burton's photographs within this group.
• Many of the contact prints are made from 35mm film, as well as a variety of larger prints.

Restricted access file.

• P. E. Newberry's copy of The Tomb of Tut-ankh-amen: Statement with documents, as to the events which occurred in Egypt in the Winter of 1923-24 leading to the ultimate break with the Egyptian Government.
• "Published for private circulation only by Cassell and Company, London, etc. 1924."
• Incorporates Howard Carter's original documentation, see TAA ii.21.

• Letters and documents relating to Howard Carter's dispute with the Egyptian Government after the European team members' wives were barred from entering the tomb to view the contents of Tutankhamun's sarcophagus after the lid had been lifted (12 February 1924).
• The dispute on the following day, 13 February 1924, eventually resulted in Howard Carter and the rest of the team being locked out of the tomb until 13 January 1925.
• Includes correspondence between Sir Alan Gardiner and the Foreign Office, Egyptologists and others in 1924.
• Referred to as the "Carter Affair" or "Tutankhamun Affair".

Documentation and correspondence regarding the planned Tutankhamun publication project by the Griffith Institute.

Letters sent to Howard Carter at the time of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun. These letters were almost immediately passed on by Carter to A. C. Mace to deal with.

Correspondence between Howard Carter, A. H. Gardiner, P. Lacau, and P. Engelbach, concerning a whm amulet from the tomb of Tutankhamun.

• Photographs showing the transport of objects from the tomb of Tutankhamun to the Laboratory tomb (KV 15), Valley of the Kings.
• Taken by anonymous photographers.
• None of the photographs in this group were taken by Harry Burton.

Twelve photographs, all black and white, of various objects from the tomb of Tutankhamun. All made by the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. Perhaps created in the 1940s or 1950s.

• Four photographs of objects from the tomb of Tutankhamun.
• Produced by Lehnert & Landrock, part of their 'Tut Ankh Amun Series' photographs.

• Tutankhamun documentation: five photographs:
  • Three photographs show objects from the tomb of Tutankhamun in Cairo, Egyptian Museum.
  • Two photographs show floral collars, probably not from Tutankhamun's tomb, in New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.

• Newspaper cuttings.
• Articles relating to the tomb of Tutankhamun.

35mm black and white transparencies made from some of the Burton photographs.

• 35mm colour transparencies of some objects from Tutankhamun's tomb.
• Probably made from plates in Desroches Noblecourt, N. 1963. Tutankhamen [OEB 9997], and Carter, H. The Tomb of Tut.Ankh.Amen [OEB 136412].

Photographs, all black and white, collected by J. Černý during his preparation of Černý, J. 1965. Hieratic inscriptions from the tomb of Tutankhamun [OEB 11213].

• Photocopy of P. E. Newberry's copy of The tomb of Tut-ankh-amen: statement with documents, as to the events which occurred in Egypt in the Winter of 1923-24 leading to the ultimate break with the Egyptian Government.
• Photocopy made from TAA ii.20.

• 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.

• Set of CD-ROMs with digitized images of original object cards, Burton photographs, notebooks and notes made by Howard Carter et al.

• Harry Burton photographs.
• The photographs have been cut down and mounted onto file cards.
• Originally probably intended for Penelope Fox's book.

• Three pages from an unidentified newspaper or magazine.
• Possibly from the Illustrated London News. Pages numbered 405-8, 413-14.
• No date.
• Images include objects from the Antechamber of Tutankhamun's tomb, and general views of the temples at Abu Simbel and Deir el-Bahari (Deir el-Bahri).

Photocopies of:

• Family papers relating to the donation of Howard Carter's papers to Oxford University.
• Antiquities returned to Egypt following Howard Carter's death.
• Objects presented to the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
• Family portraits: Samuel Carter (Howard Carter's father); Howard Carter; Amy Walker (née Carter, Howard Carter's sister); and Phyllis Walker (Howard Carter's niece).