Área de identidad
Código de referencia
TAA iii.4
Título
Fecha(s)
- late 1970s to early 1980s (Creación)
Nivel de descripción
Serie
Volumen y soporte
2 filing cabinet drawers
Área de contexto
Nombre del productor
Historia biográfica
British archaeologist and photographer. Born, Stamford 1879. Died, Asyut 1940. Began his photographic career in Florence with the art historian R. 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.
Historia archivística
Conservation set of film negatives, made from the original Burton negatives by the Ashmolean Museum Photographic Studio.
Origen del ingreso o transferencia
Área de contenido y estructura
Alcance y contenido
- Copies of Harry Burton's negatives for the excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun.
- This later set of film negatives was made from the original Burton large plate glass negatives (TAA.i.5) and small glass negatives (TAA.i.5A) after the negatives were conserved between 1980 and 1982.
Valorización, destrucción y programación
Acumulaciones
Sistema de arreglo
Área de condiciones de acceso y uso
Condiciones de acceso
Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.
Condiciones
Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.
Idioma del material
Escritura del material
Notas sobre las lenguas y escrituras
Características físicas y requisitos técnicos
Instrumentos de descripción
Área de materiales relacionados
Existencia y localización de originales
- Burton large glass plate negatives, see TAA.i.5.
- Burton small glass plate negatives, see TAA.i.5A.