Collection Petrie MSS - William Matthew Flinders Petrie Collection

11 boxes, 1 album, and 2 folders

1. Journals and notebooks in the possession of Petrie's daughter, Miss Ann Petrie presented in 1969.
2. Photographic album compiled at the Griffith Institute from photographs in the possession of the Griffith Institute in 1954, original possession unknown.
3. Copies of the negatives of the Italian and Gîza photographs were made from 660 nitrate negatives, presented by the Petrie Museum, University College London in 1985 (the nitrate negatives were subsequently destroyed).

1. Journals and notebooks, Miss A. Petrie, mostly in 1969 but also in the following years.
2. Photographs in the possession of the Griffith Institute, method of acquisition unknown.
3. Negatives, Petrie Museum, University College London in 1985.
4. Photocopies of eight excavation notebooks at the University College London transferred from the Bodleian Art, Archaeology and Ancient World Library (formerly Sackler Library) Archive on 13/09/2013.

Papers of William Matthew Flinders Petrie including journals covering 38 seasons (1880-1929) and photographs of excavations. The collection also includes secondary material associated with Petrie's journals, photographs of objects in museums, souvenir photographs and photocopies of material held at the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University College London.

Mainly kept as received. One of the sets of Italian Museum photographs have been mounted into an album, another set has been mounted onto loose sheets.

Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions. Copies of material in the Petrie Museum, University College London, consultation only.

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.
Copies of material, copyright Petrie Museum, University College London.

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No problems.

These are originals.

• Photographs of some photographs made by Dr Y. Harpur.
• Set of modern negatives made from the Italian Museums and Gîza photographs, and some negatives made from the photographs of the Faiyûm (kept with the original photographs).
• Facsimile copies of the journals exist on a CD-ROM, which was presented by the Petrie Museum.

Other Archives:

• Most of the papers of Sir W. M. F. Petrie, including 113 notebooks, tomb and object cards, and many thousands of photographs, are in the Petrie Museum, University College London.
• Some correspondence and documentation related to Petrie's work for the Egypt Exploration Fund are kept at the Egypt Exploration Society.

Griffith Institute Archive:

• See notes made by Petrie amongst Professor Sayce's papers.

The presentation of this online catalogue was possible thanks to a generous grant from the Friends of the Petrie Museum (August 2017 to March 2018).