Call Number:

C1147

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 1 box
• 1.7 linear feet

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Frédéric Boissonnas Photographs Collection, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

circa 1900-1920 (inclusive)

Creator:

Princeton University. Library. Special Collections and Boissonnas, Frédéric, 1858-1946

Form:

photographs -- 20th century and Silver prints -- Greece -- 20th century.

Abstract:

Consists of an open collection of photographs sites in Greece by Swiss photographer Frédéric Boissonnas.

Photographer Frédéric Boissonnas came from a family of artists in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1887, Boissonnas became a member of the Geneva Photographic Society (la Société Genevoise de photographie). He traveled to Greece many times and was hired in the 1910s by the Greek government to create an album entitled "The Image of Greece."

The collection is an open collection of photographs by Boissonnas. Included are 6 photographs (5 x 7 in.) of monasteries and other sites in Mount Athos, Greece, each stamped in relief "Boissonas, Geneve" ( ca. 1920); a large format (16 x 22 in.) photograph (ca. 1900) of the Erechtheun in Athens, signed by Boissonnas; and another large format photograph (ca. 1900) of the entrance to the stadium in Olympia, signed by Boissonnas in pen.