Harvard Semitic Museum Photographic Archives Visual Collections Fine Arts Library An Inventory of the Core Collection Haynes Collection Later Accessioned Materials including the Fisher Collection and Unaccessioned Add HSM Materials including the Twitchell Collection and the Ullens Archive prepared by Jeff Spurr with assistance from Amanda Phillips and Erdem Cipa Visual Collections Aga Khan Program Fine Arts Library Harvard University latest revision February 2002 1 The purpose of this report is to present the results of the inventory and reorganization of the Harvard Semitic Museum Photographic Archives undertaken during the summer of 1995 after its transfer to the Visual Collections of the Harvard Fine Arts Library The report has been substantially modified and elaborated upon during FY 96 The report indicates the types of records available for the constituent parts of the collection it provides a list of the items and a count of the number of images in each part and indicates what is present and what is missing or otherwise problematic about it It gives a brief characterization of the contents of each unit and includes a list of the photographers whose work is to be found amongst them particularly for the nineteenth century material It also provides the current location of each part by newly assigned box or unit number It closes with summary assessments of the organization of the collection of the records of non organizational problems to be addressed such as preservation and of the card index with some recommendations for further improvement Contents p 2 HSM Core Collection missing items only p 3 Haynes Collection p 4 Harvard College Library HCL Photographs p 4 Later accessioned materials acquired 1977 92 p 10 p 18 2 Fisher Collection Add HSM categories materials left unaccessioned by HSM p 18 Twitchell Collection p 21 Ullens Archive p 24 Lantern slide collection s p 25 Statistics p 28 Summary HSM CORE COLLECTION The original accession book records 1642 numbered photographs and their sources most with subject descriptions Photos 1428 1642 documented the classical architecture of Rome otherwise the collection is devoted to Palestine Jordan Lebanon Syria Egypt Sinai ancient and modern and pharaonic and Mesopotamian artifacts Of the original 1642 1558 remain only the 84 missing photographs are recorded here The primary photographers were Frank Mason Good for Francis Frith the Bonfils family Antonio Beato and the Alinari studio Small numbers of Roman views came from G Gatteschi 5 Niski Landi 3 Spadoni 1 At an unknown time probably early 1970s the original numbering was arbitrarily recommenced from 1701 to 1735 These include Bonfils 1701 26 all Palestine Zangaki 1727 32 Arnoux 1728 S bah 1729 31 all Egypt The presence or absence of copy negatives and copy prints is also indicated The absence of both indicates the likelihood that the photo s in question went missing before 1942 If either one is present the originals were still in the collection as of the 1970s Thus 19 prints 396 1113 30 which were present at that time were not transferred to the Visual Collections The Core Collection resides in boxes 1 60 box number core number 9 101 12 262 325 396 37 description original number Islamic Spain J Laurent Rock of the Apostles and Place of Bonfils 306 the Betrayal by Judas records copy negatives copy prints acc book acc book missing present missing present 1113 1130 all Luxor A Beato 121acc book missing present 138 1642 Rome oversized Alinari acc book missing missing Due to size photos 772 3 Baalbek 744 6 Damascus are in AKP office photos 1428 1432 1633 1641 are in a marked drawer in the back of the VC Bonfils duplicates includes a copy of HSM 396 Bonfils 306 Instances where only the copy negatives and or copy prints are missing total 10 negatives 8 prints box number core number 1 10 1 332 description original number British Museum front view British Museum Palestine Village of Ramleh Bonfils 242 Tower of Martyrs records comments acc book acc book identification card present 1 Whoever arranged these photos in archival boxes at the Semitic Museum elided these numbers completely they were already missing at the time of the core collection s rediscovery in 1970 3 copy negatives copy prints missing present present missing box number core number 10 345 description original number records comments copy negative copy print Jerusalem General View and Bonfils 255 acc book identification card present present missing Church of St Anne 12 393 Jerusalem Garden of Bonfils 303 acc book missing present Gethsemane 14 15 452 499 Palestine Syria misc Bonfils 363 412 acc book on exhibit at Eastman House present missing 15 505 Damascus gen v of fortress Bonfils 418 acc book missing present 22 739 Damascus Great Mosque Bonfils 784 acc book removed 11 18 83 initialed present missing and General View JIN 26 880 Dead Sea mountains of Bonfils 913 acc book missing present Judea from North 35 1100 Edfu Ptolemy and A Beato 108 acc book missing present Philometer frieze 45 1275 Karnak First Court of the A Beato 283 acc book missing present Temple 50 1391 Abydos Facade of Temple A Beato 402 acc book missing present 51 1397 Abydos Seti I between A Beato 408 acc book missing present Horus and Isis 53 59 1428 1642 Rome Alinari acc book missing missing 60 1703 Wailing Wall Bonfils not in book missing missing The Core Collection ends with 1642 but also includes the 1701 1735 addendum Clearly there are instances where negatives and prints were not made for some sections of the collection In all likelihood this is due to subject the Roman material was of less concern to the Semitic Museum curators Bonfils duplicates 36 original Bonfils prints which either replicate Core Collection photos or some of the later accessioned material They are located in box 61 Lists are in the box the file box and the accession binder They were received by the museum sometime prior to 1942 Various units of the Archives contain many other Bonfils prints noted below The HAYNES COLLECTION The collection is complete 1 120 The records are in the original HSM accession book There is a complete duplicate set The Haynes Collection also includes seven copy negatives and prints listed here Subjects include Hittite reliefs Phrygian Greek Early Christian Byzantine Islamic vernacular architecture esp troglodytic and a few ethnographic views Sites in anc provinces of Asia Minor Lycaonia Phrygia Cappadocia and Syria Qal at Sim an Aleppo The collection is in
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