Zone d'identification
Cote
Stewart MSS
Titre
Date(s)
- 1927 to mid 1940s (Production)
Niveau de description
Collection
Étendue matérielle et support
2 boxes
Zone du contexte
Nom du producteur
Notice biographique
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.
Histoire archivistique
Formerly in the possession of Stewart's eldest daughter, then later his son, Lt. Col. J. A. Stewart.
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
Donated to the Griffith Institute by Lt. Col. J. A. Stewart in 1980.
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
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'.
Évaluation, élimination et calendrier de conservation
Accroissements
Mode de classement
Kept as received.
Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation
Conditions d’accès
Property of the Griffith Institute.
Hetepheres material, no restrictions.
Palestine related material, consultation only.
Conditions de reproduction
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.
Langue des documents
- anglais
Écriture des documents
Notes sur la langue et l'écriture
Caractéristiques matérielle et contraintes techniques
No problems.
Instruments de recherche
None.
Zone des sources complémentaires
Existence et lieu de conservation des originaux
Hetepheres material, these are the originals.
Palestine related material, original with Lt. Col. J. A. Stewart in 1980.
Existence et lieu de conservation des copies
Not known.
Unités de description associées
Note de publication
Not published.