Área de identidad
Código de referencia
Stewart MSS
Título
Fecha(s)
- 1927 to mid 1940s (Creación)
Nivel de descripción
Colección
Volumen y soporte
2 boxes
Área de contexto
Nombre del productor
Historia biográfica
British artist and designer. Born, Ilkley 1882. Died, High Wycombe 1953. Educated at Bradford Technical College and then the Royal College of Art. Chief textile designer, Lister and Co., Bradford. Moved to Cairo in 1911 to take up a post teaching at the Department of Art and Crafts in the Egyptian Ministry of Education, and was later the Principal of the School of Arts and Crafts. Worked for G. A. Reisner, reconstructing some of the furniture of Queen Hetepheres found at Gîza. In 1930 he was appointed Supervisor of Technical Education to the Palestine Government, and then later Controller of Light Industries. Retired 1947.
Historia archivística
Formerly in the possession of Stewart's eldest daughter, then later his son, Lt. Col. J. A. Stewart.
Origen del ingreso o transferencia
Donated to the Griffith Institute by Lt. Col. J. A. Stewart in 1980.
Área de contenido y estructura
Alcance y contenido
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.
Xerox of a typescript titled 'Creative Work in Palestine. Technical and Crafts Education 1918-1946'.
Valorización, destrucción y programación
Acumulaciones
Sistema de arreglo
Kept as received.
Área de condiciones de acceso y uso
Condiciones de acceso
Property of the Griffith Institute.
Hetepheres material, no restrictions.
Palestine related material, consultation only.
Condiciones
Hetepheres material, copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.
The original of the xerox copy of the Palestine related material was in the possession of Stewart's son in 1980, who at that time had sent it to the Development Records Project, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford, from where it was most likely returned to him. Current location not known.
Idioma del material
- inglés
Escritura del material
Notas sobre las lenguas y escrituras
Características físicas y requisitos técnicos
No problems.
Instrumentos de descripción
None.
Área de materiales relacionados
Existencia y localización de originales
Hetepheres material, these are the originals.
Palestine related material, original with Lt. Col. J. A. Stewart in 1980.
Existencia y localización de copias
Not known.
Unidades de descripción relacionadas
Nota de publicación
Not published.