Series TAA iii.19 - Seven negatives: Burton photographs, probably copied from lantern slides

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Reference code

TAA iii.19

Title

Seven negatives: Burton photographs, probably copied from lantern slides

Date(s)

  • c. 1952 (Creation)

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Series

Extent and medium

1 box containing 7 glass negatives

Context area

Name of creator

Name of creator

(1879-1940)

Biographical history

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 1... »

Archival history

Accumulated by Penelope Fox, the Assistant Secretary in the Griffith Institute, during the late 1940s to early 1950s.

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Penelope Fox, when working for the Griffith Institute.

Content and structure area

Scope and content

  • Seven glass negatives of the following Harry Burton photographs. Annotations on the original housing indicate these were copied from Howard Carter's set of lantern slides [TAA i.8]. Some of the housing is also marked 'P.F.' so they may have been made on behalf of Penelope Fox for Tutankhamun's Treasures (1951), although not all of the images in this group are included in the publication.
  • Burton p0893
  • Burton p1214 & Burton p1237 (on one negative)
  • Burton p1236
  • Burton p1239
  • Burton p1243
  • Burton p1308
  • Burton p1323

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Conditions governing access

Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

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