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.

Material other than excavation records.

• Complete set of three volumes of Howard Carter's popular account of the discovery and excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb, all first editions, no dust jackets:
  • Carter, Howard and Mace, A. C. 1923. The Tomb of Tut.ankh.Amen Volume 1 [discovery, Antechamber and opening of the Burial chamber]
  • Carter, Howard 1927. The Tomb of Tut.ankh.Amen Volume 2 [Burial chamber, opening the sarcophagus, the state chariots, opening of the three coffins and examination of Tutankhamun's mummy]
  • Carter, Howard 1933. The Tomb of Tut.ankh.Amen Volume 3 [Treasury and Annexe]

• 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.

• 61 glass plate negatives that show the removal of objects from the tomb of Tutankhamun
• Created or accumulated by A. E. P. B. Weigall.
• Taken between December 1922 and early 1923.
• All show the removal of objects from the tomb except for TAA ii.4.57-61.
• All objects from the Antechamber.

• 18 lantern slides.
• Photographer not known.
• Photographs were taken in early 1923.
• A series of images showing objects from the Antechamber being transported from Tutankhamun's tomb to the nearby 'laboratory' (KV15, Sethos II).

• Secondary material.
• Not original excavation documentation.
• Wide assortment of material including:
  • modern copies of original excavation documentation;
  • material relating to several Tutankhamun exhibitions;
  • commercially produced items;
  • 'Tutmania' ephemera.

• Complete set of typescript copies transcribed from the original Tutankhamun object cards, with affixed photographs of the drawings on the cards, again made from the original set, see TAA i.1.1-620.

• Complete set of Burton photographs.
• For consultation by visiting researchers.

• Seven glass negatives of the following Harry Burton photographs. Annotations on the original housing indicate these were copied from Howard Carter's set of lantern slides [TAA i.8]. Some of the housing is also marked 'P.F.' so they may have been made on behalf of Penelope Fox for Tutankhamun's Treasures (1951), although not all of the images in this group are included in the publication.
• Burton p0893
• Burton p1214 & Burton p1237 (on one negative)
• Burton p1236
• Burton p1239
• Burton p1243
• Burton p1308
• Burton p1323

• Fourteen boxes containing an archived set of modern contact prints made from the original Harry Burton negatives.
• Made by the Ashmolean photographic studio.

• Copies of Harry Burton's negatives for the excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun.
• This later set of film negatives was made from the original Burton large plate glass negatives (TAA.i.5) and small glass negatives (TAA.i.5A) after the negatives were conserved between 1980 and 1982.

• Complete set of six "Cube Oxo" marketing trade cards referencing the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun.
• 6 cards + 1 duplicate card
• "VÉRITABLE EXTRAIT DE VIANDE DE LA CIE LIEBIG."
• "CUBES OXO"
• Liebig Company
• "Ensevelissement d'un roi d'Égypte" [The Burial of King Tutankhamen]
  • 1. — Mort du Roi Toutankhamon.
  • 2. — Embaumement.
  • 3. — Traverée du Nil.
  • 4. — En route vers l'Ouest.
  • 5. — Le dernier adieu.
  • 6. — Tombeau de Roi Toutankhamon. [2 copies]

• A complete set of 5 comic books, including two copies of #1 featuring alternative cover illustrations
• James Patterson, The Murder of King Tut.
  • Adaptation of the novel The Murder of King Tut by James Patterson and Martin Dugard, set in the time of Tutankhamun and follows Howard Carter's search for the King's tomb.
• IDW Publishing, San Diego.

• Set of modern photographic prints made from Harry Burton's original set of small glass negatives (TAA.i.5A), made after the original negatives were conserved.

• Set of modern photographic prints made from Harry Burton's original set of large glass plate negatives (TAA.i.5), made before the original negatives were conserved.

Primary material. Formerly on loan to the Griffith Institute.

867 groups of documentation, mainly for ostraca with hieratic inscriptions, as well as a small number of ostraca with demotic or Coptic inscriptions, or ostraca with figures.
Writing boards with hieratic inscriptions are also included.
Most of the documents are photographs. The rest of the material includes transcriptions, translations, facsimiles, correspondence, annotated off-prints and various notes.

-Museums, Černý MSS 1.1-522 (523-4, numbers not allocated)
-Collections, Černý MSS 1.525-594
-Not identified, Černý MSS 1.595-625
-Miscellaneous, Černý MSS 1.626-830

Documentation used for the preparation of publications.

The majority of the notebooks are A5 or similar. Most of the content is handwritten unless specified otherwise.
Many of the notebooks contain transcriptions of hieratic texts from ostraca, papyri and other objects. Also recorded are transcriptions of graffiti (hieratic and hieroglyphic) and hieroglyphic texts from monuments.
Texts were often copied in situ at sites or in museums and were continually collated. Transcriptions were also made using photographs and publications as source material.
Some notebooks are thematic focusing on economic and social history issues. These subjects include Egyptian administration (nomes), prices, topography (e.g. Deir el-Medîna), etc.
Notebooks compiled from material consulted in Egyptian collections, mostly in European countries and Egypt. Černý visited museums with major collections of hieratic material from Deir el-Medîna, most notably, Museo Egizio, Turin; British Museum, London; [Ägyptisches] Museum, Berlin; and Rijksmuseum, Leiden.
Černý compiled a series of slip-indexes for the transcriptions (slip-indexes, see Černý MSS 23 to 46).

277 groups of photographs. Most black and white images. Series includes photographs taken at sites including wall scenes in temples and tombs, and objects in museums, private collections, seen with dealers, location not known and not identified:
-91 groups for sites and wall scenes, Černý MSS 2.1-184, 405-416
-182 groups for objects in museums, private collections, dealers, location not known and not identified, Černý MSS. 2.185-400, 2.417-725
-2 photographs of Oriental Congresses: 1928, Černý MSS 2.401; 1931, Černý MSS 2.402
-2 photographs of Egyptologists: Ludwig Keimer, Černý MSS 2.403; Adolf Erman, Černý MSS 2.404