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Princeton University Library Collection of Kōstas Zēmerēs Photographs, 1900-1999 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 1.7 linear feet
Abstract:: Kostas Zēmerēs was born in 1886 in Katēchōri Pelion. He studied at the Commercial School of Volos, where he took his first lessons from the painter Iōannēs Poulakas. In 1904 he went to the United States where he worked in photo labs collaborating with painters and photographers. There he had the opportunity to study at the Art Institute of Saint Louis. He returned to Greece in 1912 where he was recruited during the Balkan Wars. Later, after the World War I, he remained in Athens working with great photographers, such as George Bouka and Nelly's. Finally he returned to Volos where he worked as a professional photographer and painter. He participated in many exhibitions in Greece and abroad, such as in Calais (France) in 1925 and Liverpoool (England) in 1926. He received the gold medal at the International Exhibition of Thessalonikē (Greece) in 1932 and 1936. Zēmerēs gave us the unique photographs of the painter Theophilos Chatzēmichaēl. He died at the age of 96. Consists of an open...(see more)

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Voula Papaiōannou photographs collection, 1900-1999 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 1 linear foot
Abstract:: Papaioannou was born in Lamia and grew up in Athens (Greece). She began working as a photographer during the 1930s, concentrating at first on studies of landscapes, monuments and archaeological exhibits. The outbreak of war in 1940 marked a turning point in her career, as she was intensely affected by the suffering of the civilian population of Athens. Realizing the power of her camera to arouse people's conscience, she documented the troops departing for the front, the preparations for the war effort, and the care received by the first casualties. When the capital was in the grip of starvation, she revealed the horrors of war in her moving photographs of emaciated children. After the liberation, as a member of the photographic unit of UNRRA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration), she toured the ravaged Greek countryside recording the difficult living conditions faced by its inhabitants. She often exceeded her brief, immortalizing the faces and personal stories of...(see more)

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Moses Hadas Photographs of Greece, 1944-1946 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of photographs (ca. 1944-1946) of Greece and Greek partisans taken by classical scholar Moses Hadas.

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Karl Eller photographs collection, 1930-1960 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 1 linear foot
Abstract:: Consists of an open collection of photographs depicting Greek antiquities, portraits, and landscapes by Karl Eller.

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Princeton University Library Collection of Maria Chrousakē Photographs, 1938-1950s? (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 1 linear foot
Abstract:: Consists of an open collection for Maria Chrousakē photographs of several places in Greece and Cyprus mostly Byzantine churches and monasteries and archaeological sites.

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Richard Halliburton Papers, 1900-1973 (inclusive) 1903-1940 (bulk)

Extent:: 61 boxes and 29.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Richard Halliburton traveled extensively in the first part of twentieth century after graduating from Princeton University in 1921. The collection contains autograph and typescript drafts of seven of Halliburton's books, short stories, essays, school notes, and other travel memorabilia, as well as Halliburton's correspondence with his parents and others, research materials about Rupert Brooke, and a significant group of photographs documenting his travels throughout Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.

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Princeton University Library Collection of Bartolomeo Borri Photographs, 1890s (inclusive)

Extent:: 3 boxes and 3.4 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of an open collection of photographs mainly of Corfu Island and other places in Greece, by Bartolomeo Borri, including Athens, the Acropolis and its monuments and Piraeus.

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Princeton University Library Collection of Rhomaides Brothers Photographs, 1880s-1890s (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 1.75 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of an open collection for Rhomaides Brothers photographs of classical sites in Greece (particularly Athens).

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Princeton University Library Collection of C. & G. Zangaki Photographs, circa 1870-1875 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 1.75 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of an open collection of photographs by the Greek photographers C. & G. Zangaki.

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Princeton University Library Collection of Konstantinos Athanasiou Photographs, 1870s-1880s (inclusive)

Extent:: 2 boxes and 3.5 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of an open collection of photographs by Greek photographer Konstantinos Athanasiou.

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