Dossier Petrie MSS 6.1 - Petrie 'Scraps' photograph album

Zone d'identification

Cote

Petrie MSS 6.1

Titre

Petrie 'Scraps' photograph album

Date(s)

  • 1860s-1910s (Production)

Niveau de description

Dossier

Étendue matérielle et support

Album containing photographs.

Zone du contexte

Nom du producteur

Petrie, (Lady) Hilda Mary Isabel
(1871-1956)

Notice biographique

British Egyptologist. Born, Dublin 1871. Died, London 1956. Through her interest in Egyptology she met, then married, Flinders Petrie in 1896. Worked with her husband on his excavations, helping to raise the money to fund their work. She also assisted ... »

Histoire archivistique

This album and a photograph album (Petrie MSS 6.1) are referred to as "belonging to Lady Petrie", but there is no documentation on file that confirms this attribution.

Zone du contenu et de la structure

Portée et contenu

Album, 24 x 30 cm, “SCRAPS” impressed on the cover, 52 pages, most photographs glued onto the page (using stamp-papers) or mount-slots cut into the page. Most of the photographs are commercial picture cards of locations in the United Kingdom, typically ... »

Zone des notes

Note

The photograph of Rochester Cathedral has an inked-stamp on the back "THE FLINDERS PETRIE LIBRARY KHARTOUM"