Zone d'identification
Cote
Titre
Date(s)
- 1920s-1930s (Production)
Niveau de description
Étendue matérielle et support
Metal canisters
Zone du contexte
Nom du producteur
Notice biographique
British archaeologist and photographer. Born, Stamford 1879. Died, Asyut 1940. Began his photographic career in Florence with the art historian Henry Hobart Cust. He was then engaged as a excavator at Thebes by Theodore Davis between 1910-14. Then from 1914 onwards he worked for the rest of his career as a photographer for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. His task was to record many of the royal and private tombs at Thebes. Between 1922 and 1933 he was lent by the Metropolitan Museum to Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter to make a photographic record during the excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun.
Histoire archivistique
Original housing for Harry Burton's negatives.
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
Presented by Miss Phyllis Walker in 1945.
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
- 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.
Évaluation, élimination et calendrier de conservation
Accroissements
Mode de classement
Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation
Conditions d'accès
Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.
Conditions de reproduction
Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.
Langue des documents
Écriture des documents
Notes de langue et graphie
Caractéristiques matérielle et contraintes techniques
Instruments de recherche
Zone des sources complémentaires
Existence et lieu de conservation des originaux
Existence et lieu de conservation des copies
Archived photographs for some of the canisters.