Zona de identificação
Código de referência
Stewart MSS
Título
Data(s)
- 1927 to mid 1940s (Produção)
Nível de descrição
Coleção
Dimensão e suporte
2 boxes
Zona do contexto
Nome do produtor
História biográfica
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.
História do arquivo
Formerly in the possession of Stewart's eldest daughter, then later his son, Lt. Col. J. A. Stewart.
Fonte imediata de aquisição ou transferência
Donated to the Griffith Institute by Lt. Col. J. A. Stewart in 1980.
Zona do conteúdo e estrutura
Âmbito e conteúdo
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'.
Avaliação, selecção e eliminação
Ingressos adicionais
Sistema de organização
Kept as received.
Zona de condições de acesso e utilização
Condições de acesso
Property of the Griffith Institute.
Hetepheres material, no restrictions.
Palestine related material, consultation only.
Condiçoes de reprodução
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.
Idioma do material
- inglês
Script do material
Notas ao idioma e script
Características físicas e requisitos técnicos
No problems.
Instrumentos de descrição
None.
Zona de documentação associada
Existência e localização de originais
Hetepheres material, these are the originals.
Palestine related material, original with Lt. Col. J. A. Stewart in 1980.
Existência e localização de cópias
Not known.
Unidades de descrição relacionadas
Nota de publicação
Not published.