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• MSS 1 (Egyptomania): 12 ring binders, 1 box, and 9 folders of Egyptomania material, including offprints and photocopies of publications, press cuttings, information on exhibitions, photographs, greeting cards, advertising and packaging, etc., some arranged by period or by type (e.g. pyramids, obelisks), with accompanying notes and some correspondence. One of the ring binders contains material relating to Whitehouse's book project on Egyptomania, including notes, some typed pages, and proposed plates/illustrations for the publication as a whole.
• MSS 2 (card index): Card index of occurrences of Egyptomania material (3 small boxes).
• MSS 3 (35 mm slides): 29 sheets of 35 mm colour slides (c. 650), comprising mostly Whitehouse's original photographs, primarily of Egyptomania buildings and monuments in Europe; also including some commercially purchased slides and others made from publications (c. 1969-1989).
• MSS 4 (lectures): Scripts for 20 lectures (1984-2009, five undated).
• MSS 5 (article): Draft article titled "Schiller, Mauro Tesi and the Veiled Statue of Isis", unpublished, with related correspondence, including several rejection letters from publishers (1989).
• MSS 6 (Harris correspondence): Correspondence (letters, postcards, and cards) with John Harris, including discussion of certain objects (c. 1972-1997, but many undated).
• MSS 7 (Seznec's file): Professor John Seznec's (1905-1983) file on an unfinished publication titled On the Impact of Egypt on France/French Imagination in the 19th Century, including research notes, a draft lecture on Isis (likely intended as a chapter of the monograph), offprints and copies of publications, photographs, correspondence with publishers, and additional 1985 correspondence between Whitehouse and Francis Haskell regarding this file.

Excavation records compiled by Howard Carter and members of the Tutankhamun excavation team, primary material

Professional and personal correspondence, the majority of letters date between 1946-1970 and are addressed to J. Černý in London, Oxford, Prague and other European, American and Egyptian addresses and locations. The letters contain Egyptological information regarding text readings, translations, exchange of information on objects in museums or in situ, sites and texts.

Group of personal photographs.

8 letters from (Henry) Rolf Gardiner.
Personal.

Two volumes on the history and archaeology of the Beja tribes of the Eastern Sudan (MSS 1) and small group of detached papers / personal file (MSS 2).

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.

Howard Carter's hand-drawn draft plan of the entire tomb with intact sealed doorways. Tomb of Tutankhamun, KV 62, Valley of the Kings, Thebes. Dated 'December 1923'.

Lindsley Foote Hall and Walter Hauser's sketches recording the position of objects (nos. 77, 79, 153) in situ on top of the cow-headed couch (no. 73), found in the Antechamber, tomb of Tutankhamun, KV 62, Valley of the Kings, Thebes.
Used for compiling the draft and final plans of Antechamber, see Carter MSS i.G.10 and 11.
Some calculations on verso, perhaps related to plan on verso.

Headdress. Howard Carter's collected notes for intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.

• Newspaper cutting from The Illustrated London News, 10 February 1934, p. 207. This article includes photographs of ancient Egyptian circlets found at El Lahun and now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
• Reference material for Tutankhamun's diadem [Carter 256, 4o].

Paper squeezes of monuments made in Egypt in 1850-3.

Notebooks, notes, articles (some unpublished), lecture notes, photographs, correspondence, squeezes, drawings, tracings, and casts.

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.

• 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.

Alfred Lucas notebook on ‘Examination of Materials: (a) Tutankhamen. (b) Various.’

• Notebook with 99 rule-lined pages and 5 loose pages (enclosures)
• Manuscript
• Lucas' index of categories:
  • Gold
  • Leather
  • Varnish
  • Gesso
  • Faience
  • Resin
  • Dyes
  • Precious and semi-precious stones
  • Contents of jars
  • Textile fabrics
  • Stopping
  • Oils and fats
  • Copper or bronze
  • Silver
  • Beeswax
  • Stone
  • Gypsum and gypsum plaster
  • Lead
  • Pigments and media
  • Natron (salt)
  • Fungus
  • Glass
  • Materials employed
  • Miscellaneous
  • Eyes
  • Glue
  • Pottery
  • Fossil bone
  • Plaster and mortar
  • Cement
  • Kohl
  • Sulphur: Riebeckite
  • Black cores from bronze objects
  • Wood patch
  • Wine lees
  • Blackened rocks and efflorescence
  • Wood
  • Solder
  • Papyrus
  • Pink colour
  • Temperature
  • Black organic material
  • Bow, compound

Alfred Lucas notebook on ‘Archaeology, Register of samples, and analyses. Tutankhamen and others’

• Lucas' manuscript with analysis of samples from:
  • (a) Tutankhamun's tomb
  • (b) Various

Alfred Lucas' notes on the conservation of objects from the tomb of Tutankhamun, compiled between 1922 and 1931.

• Alfred Lucas' manuscript conservation notes
• Arranged by Lucas in six sections
• See below under "Notes" for transcription of Lucas' typewritten label affixed to the notebook cover
• Contents include:
  • ‘Methods and Treatment used. [Antechamber objects]’;
  • ‘Scarlet colour on gold’;
  • ‘Objects and Treatment in Burial Chamber and Antechamber’;
  • Luxor Season 1925-6.
  • Account and treatment of Coffins and King's body;
  • Seasons 1926-7, 1927-8;
  • Account and treatment of Coffins (contd.) and objects in Treasury, beginning of Annexe;
  • Season 1928-9;
  • Account and treatment of objects in Annexe.

Prints and negatives of scenes in Theban tombs, notebook and notes (some by W. B. Emery and E. J. H. MacKay).

• Photographs of Egyptian sites and museum objects, comprising one box containing prints made from Wainwright negatives 1-24, and nine glass plate negatives for Wainwright photographs 6-14.

3 letters from Wainwright, 3 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Wainwright.
Wainwight's gifts of publications and archive materials to the Griffith Institute and to Černý.

Correspondence from Gerald Avery Wainwright including relating to travel to Egypt; a stela in the Cairo Museum; the tomb of Teti-ki; 'finances of independent Egypt' and the Egyptian Railway (1925); Newberry's research on nome standards (1932); hieroglyphic sign of a seven petaled flower.

Note:
MSS 44/44 is also numbered 208
MSS 44/45 is also numbered A.131

Howard Carter's hand-drawn final plan of the Burial chamber recording all of the objects in situ with their assigned numbers, tomb of Tutankhamun, KV 62, Valley of the Kings, Thebes.