Repository: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division / Place: Greece -- photographs / Year: <span class="from" data-blrl-begin="1850">1850</span> to <span class="to" data-blrl-end="1899">1899</span> - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

A. Kasphikis Photographs Collection, circa 1890 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 1 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of an open collection of photographs by Greek photographer A. Kasphikis. Included are portraits of men and women of Corfu, Greece, in traditional dress.

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Princeton University Library Collection of Alois Beer Photographs , circa 1890 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box
Abstract:: Consists of an open collection for general photographs of sites and subjects in Greece.

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Princeton University Library Collection of Konstantinos Dimitriou Photographs, 1889 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box
Abstract:: Konstantinos Dimitriou (dates unknown) worked in Athens from ca. 1875 to 1900. He photographed towns, archaeological sites, and monuments, producing large-format pictures for the tourist trade. [http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/guides_bibliographies/photography_greece/photographers.html] Consists of an open collection for Dimitriou photographs of classical sites in Athens, including the Syntagma square, theTemple of Olympian Zeus, the Erechtheum, the Propylaea, the arch of Hadrian, the Acropolis, the Odeion of Herodes Atticus, the Byzantine church of Saints Theodore, and two grave-markers. There is also an image of Piraeus signed by Dimitriou.

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Petros Mōraitēs Photographs Collection, 1880s-1890s (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 1.75 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of an open collection for photographs of the Greek photographer Petros Mōraitēs.

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Philippos Margaritēs photographs collection, 1854 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 1.25 linear feet
Abstract:: Philippos Margaritēs studied painting in Rome and taught drawing in Athens. Around 1846 he met Philibert Perraud in Athens, where Perraud taught him photography. Margaritēs thereafter established the first photography studio in Greece, based out of his house, where he photographed Athens' high society. He was active as a photographer from the early 1850s until around 1863. Margaritēs specialized in portraits and topographical views. He was believed to have taught his drawing students about the principles of photography, but he did not instruct them in the practical darkroom techniques. In addition to daguerreotypes, Margaritēs produced salt prints and albumen prints and also made cartes-de-visite [http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=1739]. Consists of an open collection of photographs by Greece's first professional photographer, Philippos Margaritēs.

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James Robertson photographs collection, circa 1854 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 1 linear foot
Abstract:: James Robertson was one of the first prominent traveller-photographers to depict scenes of mid-nineteenth century Greece. Of Scottish descent, he has been identified as the engraver James Robertson, who worked in London around 1830. He first settled in Constantinople in 1841, where he spent forty years of his life working as a master engraver in the imperial mint. His photography career began in the early 1850's when he opened a photographer's studio in Peran, the European district of Constantinople. His photographs, which were immediately popular among the art lovers of his period, appeared in international exhibitions in Paris and London and were frequently reproduced in the leading periodical "The London Illustrated News". He died in 1888 in Yokohama. Robertson earned his place in the history of photography with his coverage of the Crimean war, and with his photographs of Constantinople and other historical Mediterranean sites, such as Athens, Malta, Damascus, Egypt and the Holy...(see more)

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General Manuscripts Miscellaneous Collection, 1502-2012 (inclusive)

Extent:: 120 boxes and 67.8 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of over 3000 miscellaneous items of primarily American literary, historical, and political figures, including business and personal letters, manuscripts, drawings, photographs, and official documents.

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Rudolf-Ernest Brünnow Papers, 1876-1897 (inclusive)

Extent:: 54 boxes
Abstract:: German Semitic philologist, Rudolf-Ernst Brünnow (1858-1917) was a professor of Semitics at Princeton (post-1910) in Greek, Latin, German, French, Turkish, Assyrian, and English. The collection consists of notes, photographs, inscriptions, tables, and descriptions by Brünnow.

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Dimitris Constantine Photographs of Greece, 1850s-1870s (inclusive)

Extent:: 5 boxes and 10 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of assorted photographs of Athens and other sites in Greece taken by the Greek photographer Dimitris Constantine (fl. 1850s).

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Félix Bonfils Photographs Collection, 1867-1885 (inclusive)

Extent:: 2 boxes and 1.8 linear feet
Abstract:: The Félix Bonfils Photographs Collection consists of photographs taken by Bonfils in the second half of the 19th century of images and people in the eastern Mediterranean.

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