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Seven negatives: Burton photographs, probably copied from lantern slides

  • 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

Fox, Penelope

Photocopies: Breasted, J. H., documents relating to tomb

  • 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.

Breasted, James Henry

Photocopy: The Tomb of Tut-ankh-amen statement

  • 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.

Carter, Howard

Two photographic prints: Howard Carter drawings

  • Two black and white photographic prints:
    • Howard Carter's drawings of harness (from TAA i.3.8).
    • Howard Carter's drawing from object card 333 'portions of the linen housings of the chariot horses' (from TAA i.1.333).
    • Howard Carter's drawing of the second shrine (237) with detail of construction of shrine (from TAA i.3.25).

Carter, Howard

Modern negatives: copies of original Burton negatives

  • 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.

Burton, Harry

Notes: wood, correspondence and related material, Alfred Lucas

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).

Lucas, Alfred

Miscellaneous notes

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.

Carter, Howard

Lantern slides

Howard Carter's lantern slides featuring Harry Burton's photographs taken during the excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb.

  • A twelve-drawered wood chest containing over 600 glass lantern slides
  • Belonging to Howard Carter.
  • The lantern slides were made from Harry Burton's images.
  • Used by Carter in his lectures.

Burton, Harry

Burton original photographic prints

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.

Burton, Harry

Ten photograph albums

Ten albums containing original photographic prints made by Harry Burton [TAA i.6.1-10].

  • Arranged by chamber and by object type
  • Annotated headings and negative numbers, probably by Harry Burton or his wife Minnie B.
  • Howard Carter's set of albums

Originally belonging to Howard Carter.

Burton, Harry

Burton negatives - small glass plate

Harry Burton's small glass plate negatives

Howard Carter's negatives

Later film negatives, made from original Burton photographs

  • Some are original Harry Burton negatives.
  • Carter's negatives are views of the area around the tomb entrance and the outer sealed doorway when the tomb was found in 1922 and before Burton joined the Tutankhamun excavation team in December 1922.
  • Glass and film negatives.
  • Approximately 1000 negatives (400 glass and 600 film)
  • Number ranges 1-2024 and i-xcvii
  • The negative number ranges comprise both the small and large negatives (large, see TAA i.5)
  • A few original negatives in this series were created by Howard Carter, see above.
  • Many of the negatives were made later in the Ashmolean Museum photographic studio from photographs supplied by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, following an exchange of images in the 1950s.
  • Includes modern film negatives made in the Ashmolean Museum photographic studio from the original Harry Burton photographic prints in the Tutankhamun Archive, Griffith Institute.

Burton negatives - large glass plate

Harry Burton's large glass plate negatives.

  • Taken by Harry Burton during the excavation, clearance and recording of Tutankhamun's tomb
  • Approximately 860 negatives
  • Number ranges 1-2024 and i-xcvii
  • The negative number ranges comprise both the small and large negatives (small, see TAA i.6)

Burton, Harry

Drawings of objects found on Tutankhamun's body, created by Howard Carter

Howard Carter's "autopsy" drawings, recording objects in situ on Tutankhamun's body and within the body wrappings.

  • 18 annotated pencil drawings of groups of objects found in the body wrappings and on the body of Tutankhamun, recorded during the autopsy of the King's body, 11-19 November 1925
  • All by Howard Carter

Carter, Howard

Howard Carter's diary for 1924

Howard Carter's appointment diary for 1924

  • Letts's - No. 46 - Indian and Colonial - Rough Diary - 1924
  • Notes on Carter's activities in Egypt in early 1924, which include departures and arrivals, lunch appointments, meetings with officials and colleagues, and lecture venues and dates. Also contains a few notes on negotiations with British officials and the Egyptian authorities, between December 1924 and January 1925, regarding the dispute and closure of Tutankhamun's tomb.
  • Also entries for:
    • Lecture tour, North America, 12 April (depart London) to 2 July (depart New York).
    • Some lectures, England, October to early November.
    • Lecture, Madrid, Residencia de Estudiantes, 24 November.
    • Lecture, Madrid, Trabro Fontainalla, 26 November.
  • Departed for Egypt, 10 December.

Carter, Howard

Howard Carter's diary for 1923

Howard Carter's appointment diary for 1923

  • Letts's - No. 46 - Indian and Colonial - Rough Diary - 1923
  • Carter's activities in Egypt include departures and arrivals, lunch appointments, meetings with officials and colleagues, and his excavations

Carter, Howard

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