Tutankhamun excavation - Harry Burton's original contact prints made from the original glass plate negatives

• Set of original photographic prints.
• Most were created by Harry Burton.
• Some prints were made in the Ashmolean Museum Photographic Studio between the mid-1940s and the 1970s.

• Several tin plate canisters for 8- by 10-inch glass-plate negatives.
• Measurements (a) 25.6 x 19.6 x 11.3 cm; (b) 25.8 x 19.6 x 9.1 cm [TAA ii.25.1-2].
• Bear labels including: 'Sensitive to Light! To be opened only in the presence of the receiver'
• Originally contained the negatives created by Harry Burton during the Tutankhamun excavation. The canisters no longer contain the negatives.

• Digital image.
• Original negative made from a Lehnert & Landrock postcard, Cairo, probably late 1920s or 1930s.
• Postcard caption: 013 TUTANKHAMEN SERIES GOLD PORTRAIT MASK OF KING
• Original postcard features an edited version of Burton photograph P0757.
• Mask of Tutankhamun (256a), gold inlaid with coloured glass and semi-precious stones, in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 60672.

• Digital image.
• The original negative was made from a Lehnert & Landrock postcard, Cairo, probably late 1920s or 1930s.
• Postcard caption: 018 TUTANKHAMEN SERIES THE TUTELARY GODDESS SELKIT
• Original postcard features Burton photograph P1550.
• Statue of the goddess Selkis from Tutankhamun's canopic shrine (266), gilded wood, in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 60686.

• Digital image.
• Original negative made from a Lehnert & Landrock postcard, Cairo, probably late 1920s or 1930s.
• Original postcard features Burton photograph KV79.
• Postcard caption: 003 TUTANKHAMEN SERIES ENTRANCE TO TOMB
• View of the modern enclosure wall protecting the entrance to the tomb of Tutankhamun.

Objects found between the sarcophagus (240) and shrines (207), (237), (238) and (239). Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.

• i. Carter's report on objects nos. 242 (fan), 250 (djad emblem), 249 (bundle of reeds), 251(rags and chips of wood) , 245 (fan), 244, 246 (long bows), 243 (arrows) and 241, 247 (long bows), and 248 (ten arrows).
• ii. Harry Burton's photographs of 242, 245 (fans), 244, 246 (long bows), 243 (arrows) and 250 (djad pillar).

Photographic records made during the excavation of the Tomb of Tutankhamun, consisting of approximately 1400 black and white glass negatives. 10 albums of original prints made from these negatives for Carter, and original prints made for and kept with the object card index for the excavation.