Zone d'identification
Cote
Titre
Date(s)
- c. late 1920s-late 1950s (Production)
Niveau de description
Étendue matérielle et support
2 boxes and 10 slide boxes
Zone du contexte
Nom du producteur
Notice biographique
British artist and musician. Born, London 1896. Died, Toronto 1959. Educated in Canada, and then from 1922 studied music at the Royal College of Music. While at Oxford she began making archaeological drawings under the direction of Sir Leonard Woolley. This led onto her working for Sir Alan Gardiner and the Egypt Exploration Society; she copied and subsequently published parts of the temple of Sethos I at Abydos.
Histoire archivistique
(a) Leica Kodachrom transparencies of reliefs from the interior of the Temple of Ramesses II at Abydos, in the possession of Miss Calverley.
(b) 10 photographs of the ceiling of the Cenotaph of Sethos I at Abydos, in the possession of Miss Calverley.
(c) 383 photographs made from Miss Calverley’s negatives for Sir Alan Gardiner.
(d) Correspondence, in the possession of Miss Calverley’s niece, Mrs S. Rampen.
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
(a) Given by Miss Calverley in 1950.
(b) Given by Miss Calverley in 1956.
(c) Presented by Sir Alan Gardiner.
(d) Presented by Mrs S. Rampen in 1986.
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
Over one thousand colour slides (group III), several hundred black and white photographs (group II), and correspondence (group I).
Évaluation, élimination et calendrier de conservation
Accroissements
Mode de classement
- The slides have been arranged in order of B. Porter and R. L. B. Moss, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings, vi (1939).
- Photographs are kept as received.
- Correspondence is arranged alphabetically.
Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation
Conditions d'accès
Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions
Conditions de reproduction
Copyright Griffith Institute, Oxford.
Langue des documents
anglais
Écriture des documents
Notes de langue et graphie
Caractéristiques matérielle et contraintes techniques
No problems.
Instruments de recherche
Handwritten catalogue for slides.
Zone des sources complémentaires
Existence et lieu de conservation des originaux
The slides are originals. The photographs were made from Miss Calverley's negatives which at that time were kept at Chicago House.
Existence et lieu de conservation des copies
Not known.
Unités de description associées
Other Archives:
- Slides formerly deposited with the School of Archaeology and Oriental Studies, University of Liverpool, then in the possession of Mrs S. Rampen in 1986.
Griffith Institute Archive:
- Gardiner MSS 36.18-24, seven boxes of transparencies - hieroglyphs from Temples of Sethos I and Ramesses II at Abydos, probably from Miss Calverley.
- Gardiner MSS 43, Abydos Enterprise.