Album, 36 x 24.5 cm, "Post Card Album” impressed on the cover, 38 pages with 192 postcards. Most of the postcards have not been used, those which have been posted are all addressed to Alfred Lionel Lewis (d. 1920), a Prehistorian and Vice President of the Royal Anthropological Institute. The Pitt-Rivers Museum, Oxford, also possesses a collection of Lewis’ scale models of prehistoric monuments. Most of the postcards are listed in the order they are presented in the album.

France
Prehistoric monuments
-Carnac
-Locmariaquer
-Le Croisic
-Champ-Dolent
-Saint-Vran
-La Rochelongue
-Glomel
-Trégunc
-Corley
-Kerien
-Saint-Nazaire
-l’île d’Oléron
-Saint-Renan
-Porspoder
-Kérangoaker
-Ploufragan
-Rouen
-Pleumeur-Bodou
-Plouescat
-Commequiers
-La Rochepot
-Morvan
-Solutré-Pouilly
-Draguignan
-Les Ventes
-Vallée d’Iton
-Pacy-sur-Eure
-Saint-Micaud
-Neaufles-Auvergny
-Ussy
-Berrias-et-Casteljau
-Saint-Agrève
-Saint-Cergues
-Saint-Alban-sous-Sampzon
-Souppes-sur-Loing
-Aude
-Evreux
-Bretteville
-Neuville-Bosc
-Boubiers
-Delincourt
-Yzeures-sur-Creuse
-Connerré
-Saint-Nectaire
-Martinvast

• Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil (series produced during the C. Hauser excavations)
  -Sers
  -Fontenille
  -Poitiers
  -Roullet-Saint-Estèphe
  -Bernac

Churches
-Gurat, église monolithe Saint-Georges
-Lanterne des Morts (Charente, Quercy, Cellefrouin, Château-Larcher, Vivonne)
-Aubeterre, l’eglise Saint-Jean

Several series of postcards produced for congresses
-Congrès Préhistorique de France, Autun, 1907 (Alise-Sainte-Reine, Mont Beuvray, Camp de Chassey, Solutré-Pouilly)
-IVe Congrès préhistorique de France, Cambéry, 1908 (Pierre-Châtel, Saint-Saturnin, Aiguebelette, Aix-les-Bains, Butte de Montjay, La Balme, Lac du Bourget)
-Ve Congrès préhistorique de France, Beauvais, 1909 (Trie-Château, Champignolles, Villers-Saint-Sépulcre, Champlieu, Sainte-Geneviève, Beauvais)
-XIVe Congrès d’Anthropologie et d’Archéologie préhistoriques, Genène, 1912 (small flint figures)

Belgium
Prehistoric monument
-Tervueren

United Kingdom
Prehistoric monuments
-Coria (Corbridge; Corstopitum) (objects)
-Arran, Shiskine
-Penrith, “Giant’s Grave”
-Aylesford pit Kent, Bennett Coll.

Objects in museums
-Colchester Corporation Museum (The Colchester Vase, British 1st and 2nd Century vessels)
-Glastonbury Bronze Bowl
-Oxford, Ashmolean Museum (Knossos, great store-jar and fresco-painting)

Miscellaneous
-Westminster Abbey, funerary wax effigies of British Kings and Queens

Notebook 8, recording details of excavation at Ballas, tomb groups Q31a, Q32 and Q73-Q99, compiled by J. E. Quibell on behalf of Petrie. Photocopies of notebook cover and 47 notebook pages.

Digital copies of the microfiche created from W. M. F. Petrie's excavation notebooks and tomb cards held in the archive of the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University of Oxford. Two CDs with Mac and PC versions.

Typewritten catalogue for sections of the Petrie MSS, most of which relates to photographs. Superceded by online Petrie catalogue.

Notebook 9, recording details of excavation at Ballas, tomb groups Q51 to Q71, compiled by J. E. Quibell on behalf of Petrie. Photocopies of notebook cover and 27 notebook pages.

Notebook 11, recording details of excavation at Ballas, including tomb groups Q5 to Q36, compiled by J. E. Quibell on behalf of Petrie. Photocopies of notebook cover and 34 notebook pages.

Notebook 69, recording details of excavations at Naqada, compiled by Petrie and others. Photocopies of notebook cover and 78 notebook pages.

Notebook 70, recording details of excavation at Naqada, compiled by H. W. Price on behalf of Petrie.
Photocopies of notebook cover and 117 notebook pages.

Notebook 71, recording details of excavation at Naqada, compiled by Petrie and others.
Photocopies of 104 notebook pages.

Notebook 72, recording details of excavation at Naqada, compiled by Petrie and others.
Photocopies of 122 notebook pages.

Notebook recording details of excavation at Hu compiled by Petrie and others.
Photocopies of notebook cover and 110 notebook pages.

Microfiche copies of all of W. M. F. Petrie's excavation notebooks and tomb cards in the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University of Oxford.

Journal, photographs, typescript, and various notes connected with Stewart's work on the reconstruction of some of the furniture of Queen Hetepheres for the Harvard-Boston Expedition.

Tutankhamun excavation: Alfred Lucas conservation notes, 1926-1927.

• Alfred Lucas's manuscript notes.
• ‘Materials Employed’ during the fifth season 1926-1927.
• Two pages.

Tutankhamun excavation: Alfred Lucas documentation on wood from the tomb.

• Correspondence and related material on wood, including:
  • 16 letters exchanged between Alfred Lucas and Laurence Chalk discussing wood specimens from the tomb of Tutankhamun;
• 3 offprints, Lucas articles:
  • Lucas, A. 1932. The Occurrence of Natron in Ancient Egypt. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 18 (1/2), 62-66 (OEB 144143);
  • Lucas, A. 1936. The Wood of the Third Dynasty Ply-wood Coffin from Saqqara. Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte 36, 1-4 (OEB 144160);
  • Lucas, A. 1924. Note on the Temperature and Humidity of Several Tombs in the Valley of the Tombs of the Kings at Thebes. Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte 24, 12-14 (OEB 144136).

Howard Carter's additional notes to his notebook with an inventory of objects from Tutankhamun's tomb with recording and conservation schedule, 1922-1930

• Howard Carter's manuscript notes on objects or subjects
• Supplements Carter's notebook, see TAA i.2.13
• Includes notes on:
  • 2 pages with notes on the magical figures from niches in the wall of sarcophagus chamber, Carter 257-260
  • 2 pages with notes relating to the sarcophagus, Carter 240, with copies of texts extracted from Lacau, Pierre 1904-1906. Sarcophages antérieurs au Nouvel Empire (OEB 142822)
  • 2 pages with notes on gilded wood emblems, Carter object 196, and the clay brick stands for these emblems, Carter 198a
  • 1 page with notes on ritual emblems in the burial chamber and the disturbance of these objects by tomb robbers
  • 1 page with notes on beads and part of necklace dropped by tomb robbers, Carter 172
  • 1 page with general notes on Anubis animal, i.e. jackal
  • 1 page with a list and photograph? number: gloves, general view of the tomb, carved ivory box, and head of the king
  • 1 page with a list of Tutankhamun object numbers

Howard Carter's notes listing categories of objects from the Antechamber, Tutankhamun's tomb

• Howard Carter's manuscript list of objects, arranged in categories, listing Carter object numbers with brief descriptions. All objects were found in the Antechamber,
• Supplement to Carter notebook, see TAA i.2.14
• List of categories is arranged as follows:
  • Botanical specimens
  • Nome standards
  • Sandals
  • Boxes
  • Headrests
  • Amulets
  • Jewellery
  • Necklaces
  • Miscellaneous
  • Ushabtis
  • Shrine
  • Implements
  • Vases
  • Stone vessels alabaster
  • Baskets
  • Statues
  • Couches
  • Chariot parts
  • Weapons
  • Arrows and quivers
  • Bows
  • Gloves
  • Textiles
  • Sticks
  • Chairs
  • Stools
  • Footstools
  • Hassocks
  • Bedsteads

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

• i. Carter's manuscript notes on boats, parts of boats, and the "Eastern Mediterranean" types of boat.
• ii. Carter's manuscript extracts from Erman, Adolf, Egyptian Religion, concerning boats.
• iii. Carter's manuscript notes on Egyptian names for various types of boats.
• G. S. Laird Clowes 17-page annotated typescript titled 'Boat-Models found in the Tomb of Tutankhamen.'

Statuettes of deities, the king, and standards. Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.

• Howard Carter's notes, seven items, all manuscript except for one typescript, also one photograph
  • i. Photograph of royal tomb wall scene with figures similar to those found in the tomb.
  • ii. Note on the 'Ennead'.
  • iii. List of the statuettes of deities from the tomb.
  • iv. List of the statuettes of the King which portray him as Horus.
  • v. List of (?) standards.

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

• i. Typescript letter from Dr Alexander Scott, December 1930, to Howard Carter, on animal tissue with gesso used under gold on the burial shrines. Also, see Chemistry notes (TAA i.3.9).
• ii. Photograph of a microscope slide, sample with animal hair follicles, enclosed with Scott's letter.
• iii. Alfred Lucas's manuscript notes on the analysis of gesso, which mentions a layer of ‘course woven fabric’ found under gesso.
• iv. Howard Carter's manuscript notes on components of gypsum, whiting and chalk.

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

1. Carter's manuscript, eight pages, 'Notes upon the remarkable rose-coloured gold employed in jewellery and other ornaments of the Theban Egyptian New Empire' etc., including:
   • (i) Copy of Alfred Lucas' account in Carter, Howard, The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen ii (1927), pp. 172 ff;
   • (ii) Copy of Dr Alexander Scott's notes on rose gold;
   • (iii) Copy of the jeweller's J. R. Ogden typewritten analysis of one sequin;
   • (iv) Carter's summing up of the evidence.
2. Letters addressed to Howard Carter from:
   • (i) Dr Alexander Scott, May (typewritten, with manuscript draft of Carter's reply), June (manuscript), and August 1933 (manuscript), regarding gold in the tomb;
   • (ii) The jewellers J. R. Ogden concerning gold, with their analysis, typewritten;
   • (iii) W. F. Hume, December 1930, typewritten, on his publication about gold in ancient Egypt;
   • (iv) Copy of letter from Howard Carter to W. F. Hume, May 1933, on rose gold;
   • (v) Alfred Lucas to Howard Carter, November 1933, manuscript, on rose gold.
   • (vi) Carter's draft/copy manuscript letter addressed to A. Lucas, 15 May 1933.
3. Newspaper cutting from Illustrated London News, April 1934, with articles by E. T. Lewis and W. T. Blackband on 'Rediscovery of the lost Etruscan art of granulation'.
   The following items were also filed by Carter in this group:
   • Printed calling card: Mr Alfred Dobrée, Le Fainel, St Martins, Guernsey. Savile Club.
   • Manuscript note with contact details for Dr [Cecil H.] Desch. F.R.S. National Physical Laboratory, Teddington', on Savile Club headed notepaper.

Magical figures. Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.

• Howard Carter's annotated typewritten notes on the four magical figures, Tutankhamun object nos. (257), (258), (259) and (260), found in sealed niches in the Burial chamber, including Carter's transcriptions for each.

Objects found on Tutankhamun's body. Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.

• i. Carter's notes for the disposition of objects on Tutankhamun's body, 1 typescript page the rest are manuscript pages
• ii. Carter's drawings of a male figure with a grid, probably the original drawings and template used for the sixteen 'autopsy drawings' showing the position of jewellery on Tutankhamun's body (see TAA i.4.1-16).
• iii. Drawing of Tutankhamun's body with grid, probably the basis for the drawings described above, in ii.
• iv. Photostats and a precis of a lecture given by Dr Douglas Derry, Professor of Anatomy in the Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, and Mr Rex Engelbach, Keeper of the Cairo Museum, on "Akhenaton & Tutankhamon, manuscript.
• v. Photostats of a manuscript "Anatomical Report on the Mummy of King Tut ankh Amon. By Dr D. E. Derry and Dr Saleh Bey Hamdi."

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

• Letters to Howard Carter from Mr L. A. Boodle of Kew Gardens, May 1932 to October 1933, with Mr Boodle's final report on analyses of the following:
  • Arrows - Carter object no.: None. Boodle report page 31a.
  • Baskets, contents of - Carter object nos.: 369, 426, 429, 470, 527a, 528, 530, 542, 544, 567, 573b. Boodle report page 7.
  • Baskets:
    • Carter object nos. 364, 371, 451, 518b, 454, 476, 573c, 495. Boodle report page 8.
    • Carter object no. 564. Boodle report page 10.
    • Carter object nos. 441, 342, 562, 506. Boodle report page 11.
    • Carter object nos. 401, 355, 439, 473, 531. Boodle report page 12.
    • Carter object nos. 146, 348, 356, 368, 400, 484, 527b, 364, 371, 451, 518b, 454, 476, 573c, 591, 589. Boodle report page 14.
    • Carter object nos. 146, 401, 355, 454, 476, 573c. Boodle report page 15.
    • Carter object nos. 526, 573f, 616. Boodle report page 16.
    • Carter object nos. 348, 356, 368, 400, 484, 527b, 454, 476, 573c. Boodle report page 18.
    • Carter object no. 495. Boodle report page 21a.
    • Carter object nos. 454, 476, 573c. Boodle report page 23.
  • Bouquet, large funerary - Carter object no. 205. Boodle report page 16.
  • Box, plain wooden- Carter object no. 315. Boodle report page 9.
  • Bow, composite - Carter object no. None. Boodle report pages 28, 31.
  • Chariot wheel - Carter object no. 332. Boodle report pages 28, 33.
  • First (outermost) coffin [wreath] - Carter object no. 253. Boodle report pages 5, 17, 30.
  • Second (middle) coffin [wreath] - Carter object no. 254a. Boodle report pages 5, 17.
  • Third (innermost) coffin [wreath] - Carter object no. 255a. Boodle report pages 20, 21.
  • Germinating figure of Osiris - Carter object no. 288a. Boodle report page 12.
  • Granary, model - Carter object no. 277. Boodle report pages 6a, 18a, 12, 15, 23, 24.
  • Branch of a plant - Carter object no. 367h. Boodle report page 22.
  • Statuettes with wreaths - Carter object nos. 280a, 300a. Boodle report page 17.
  • Statuette with a wreath - Carter object no. 299a. Boodle report page 21.
  • First (outermost) shrine - Carter object no. 207. Boodle report pages 29, 32.
  • Second shrine - Carter object no. 237. Boodle report pages 32, 34.
  • Fourth (innermost) shrine - Carter object no. 239. Boodle report pages 29, 34.
  • Stick, walking - Carter object no. None. Boodle report pages 28, 34.
  • Seeds - Carter object no. 146. Boodle report page 4.
  • Vessels:
    • Carter object no. 614k. Boodle report page 3.
    • Carter object no. 614a. Boodle report page 6.
    • Carter object no. 614f. Boodle report pages 15, 23.
    • Carter object no. 614h. Boodle report page 16a.
    • Carter object nos. 614c, d. Boodle report page 19.
    • Carter object no. 614b. Boodle report page 26.
    • Carter object no.: 614e. Boodle report page 27.

Pall and the pall support. Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.

• Carter's annotated three-page typescript with 1 manuscript note.
• Report on the pall and the construction of the pall struts, the attempts to preserve the pall, and its destruction.