- Petrie MSS 2
- Series
- 2004
Material associated with Petrie's journals (Petrie MSS 1) including copies of journals, transcripts, correspondence and notes.
Material associated with Petrie's journals (Petrie MSS 1) including copies of journals, transcripts, correspondence and notes.
Photographs taken by Petrie at the Giza Museum in Cairo.
The Journals, or more correctly journal-letters, cover 38 seasons, with a date range of 1880-1 to 1928-9, which cover Petrie’s first season in Egypt (measuring the Pyramids at Giza) through to 1928-9 (Petrie’s excavations at Tell Fara in Palestine). There are approximately 5,000 journal pages.
The earlier handwritten Journals are by Petrie, then following his marriage in 1897, much of the writing was compiled by his wife, Hilda.
Copies of Petrie notebooks and tomb cards
Photocopies of excerpts from selected notebooks with notes on Petrie excavations, compiled by Petrie, J. E. Quibell and H. W. Price.
Microfiches of Petrie notebooks and tomb cards in the archive of the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University College, London.