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TAA ii.6.24 · Item · 1923
Part of Tutankhamun Archive
  • Postcard.
  • Photograph, photographer not known.
  • Photograph taken in early 1923.
  • An object, perhaps one of Tutankhamun's chairs, transported from the King's tomb to the nearby 'laboratory' (tomb KV15, Sethos II). Arthur Callender (wearing a white hat) accompanies the Egyptian team members, Alan Gardiner (wearing a dark hat) stands on the right.
TAA ii.6.23 · Item · 1923
Part of Tutankhamun Archive
  • Postcard
  • Photograph, photographer not known.
  • Photograph taken in 1923.
  • View of the entrance to the tomb of Tutankhamun with some tourists standing behind modern tomb enclosure wall.
TAA ii.6.22 · Item · 1923
Part of Tutankhamun Archive
  • Postcard.
  • Photograph, photographer not known.
  • Photograph taken in early 1923.
  • Bedstead (47) with the bows, arrows, quiver and sticks found on top (48), in transit from Tutankhamun's tomb to the nearby 'laboratory' (tomb KV15, of Sethos II).
TAA ii.6.21a · Item · 1923
Part of Tutankhamun Archive
  • Postcard
  • Photograph, photographer not known.
  • Photograph taken on 24 January 1923.
  • Howard Carter, assisted by Walter Hauser, manoeuvring one side of the cow-headed couch (73) into a packing case for transfer to the nearby 'laboratory' (tomb KV15, of Sethos II).
TAA ii.6.21 · Item · 1923
Part of Tutankhamun Archive
  • Postcard
  • Photograph, photographer not known.
  • Photograph taken on 24 January 1923.
  • Howard Carter, assisted by Walter Hauser, manoeuvring one side of the cow-headed couch (73) into a packing case for transfer to the nearby 'laboratory' (tomb KV15, of Sethos II).
Arthur Weigall negatives
TAA ii.4.1-61 · Series · c. 1922-1923
Part of Tutankhamun Archive
  • 61 glass plate negatives: 56 show the removal of objects from the tomb of Tutankhamun, and 5 others show objects not connected to the tomb.
  • Created or accumulated by A. E. P. B. Weigall.
  • TAA Archive ii.4.1-56
    • Taken between December 1922 and early 1923.
    • Many, if not all, appear to be rephotographed prints, probably from a newspaper archive (Daily Mail?). Some of the rephotographed prints have been manually edited using paint or ink.
    • All records the removal of objects from Tutankhamun's tomb, or show replicas of tomb objects made for and displayed at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley, London, in 1924.
    • All objects recorded are from the Antechamber.
  • TAA ii.4.57-61
    • A series of negatives, each showing a different mummified body, all still wrapped except for one, and also an anthropoid coffin. None of these objects is connected with Tutankhamun's tomb.
    • All images taken at the same location (perhaps Thebes), and, presumably, at the same time.
Weigall, Arthur Edward Pearse Brome
Percy White letter
TAA ii.26.1 · Item · 1930-04-30
Part of Tutankhamun Archive

One letter from Percy White, addressed to Howard Carter, dated April 30, 1930. Percy White (1852-1938) was an English novelist and editor who was appointed as an English lecturer at the Egyptian University in Cairo, 1911-1925. White was an old friend of Howard Carter and helped edit and prepare one volume of Carter’s The Tomb of Tut.ankh.Amen ii (1927). Four pages, mainly social content with a reference to Carter’s work in Tutankhamun’s tomb nearing completion.

TAA ii.25 · Series · 1920s-1930s
Part of Tutankhamun Archive
  • 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.
Burton, Harry
TAA ii.24 · Item · 1968-12-04
Part of Tutankhamun Archive
  • Photograph of Professor R. G. Harrison, Derby Professor of Anatomy, University of Liverpool, with Dr Z. Iskander and others, examining Tutankhamun's remains in the king's tomb, KV62, Valley of the Kings, Thebes.
  • The original photograph was taken on 4 December 1968 by Mr Lynton Reeve, Department of Anatomy, University of Liverpool.
Reeve, Lynton