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William James Stillman. Images in the Archives of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2010

Deborah Harlan
Deborah Harlan
Affiliation:
Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield, d.harlan@sheffield.ac.uk
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Extract

Previous discussions of collections printed in Archaeological Reports have consisted of catalogues of antiquities. This contribution does not deal with antiquities per se, but with objects depicting antiquities – 46 glass plate photographic negatives dating to the nineteenth century. However, these objects are also culturally-produced artefacts. Most of them are large, approximately 20cm by 20cm, glass plates, though some are rectangular of both smaller and larger dimensions. In addition, there are seventeen duplicated images in a British standard 8.25cm by 8.25cm lantern slide format. These glass artefacts are remnants of a much larger collection of negatives and slides amassed by the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies (hereafter Hellenic Society) in the late nineteenth to the first half of the twentieth century.

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Archaeological Reports , Volume 55 , November 2009 , pp. 123 - 144
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Copyright © Authors, the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies and the British School at Athens 2009

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