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Martin Biddle Director's Office records
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Martin Biddle was educated at the Merchant Taylors' School and at Pembroke College, Oxford, attaining B.A. and M.A. degrees. Following military service as a 2nd Lieutenant/Lieutenant in the Royal Tank Regiment, Biddle was employed as an Inspector of Monuments for the Ministry of Public Buildings and Works before accepting a position to lecture in Medieval Archaeology at the University of Exeter and as a fellow at Old Souls College, Oxford.
Biddle served as Director at the Winchester Research Unit of the Winchester Excavations Committee before accepting the position as Director of the University Museum in 1977. He also was appointed Professor in the Department of Archaeology at Penn with secondary appointments in the departments of History, History of Art and American Civilization and in the Graduate Groups of Classical Archaeology and Religious Studies.
Biddle was a member of many archaeological and antiquarian societies in both Britain and the United States. He worked and supervised digs in England and the Middle East in his specialty, Urban Archaeology. He published extensively in England and in America.
Biddle remained Director until 1981 when his resignation was requested by the University President.
Martin Biddle served as Director at the Winchester Research Unit of the Winchester Excavations Committee before accepting the position as Director of the University Museum in 1977. He also was appointed Professor in the Department of Archaeology at Penn with secondary appointments in the departments of History, History of Art and American Civilization and in the Graduate Groups of Classical Archaeology and Religious Studies. He remained Museum Director until 1981.
The Martin Biddle Administrative records consist of forty archival boxes of materials. The files are organized in two series; alphabetical and chronological and some of the records may overlap with the previous Director, Froelich Rainey and Biddle's successor, Robert Dyson. The alphabetical files contain mainly correspondence, administrative records and information regarding exhibitions. The chronological files date from May 1978 to June 1981.
CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA MUSEUM
University Archaeological Association (1889–1899) First President Joseph Leidy President William Pepper, Jr. 1893–1897
Board of Managers, Department of Archaeology and Palaeontology / Free Museum of Science and Art President Charlemagne Tower, Jr. elected Jan 14, 1892 resigned Oct 9, 1894 President William Pepper, Jr. elected Oct 9, 1894 died Aug 3, 1898 President Daniel Baugh acting Aug 3, 1898 elected Jun 22, 1899 President Justus C. Strawbridge elected Jan 19, 1901 resigned 1903 President Sara Yorke Stevenson elected Jan 15, 1904 resigned Feb 24, 1905 President Samuel F. Houston acting Mar 17, 1905 elected Jan 19, 1906 1910
Directors of the University of Pennsylvania Museum Stewart Culin Jun 1, 1892–Jun 28, 1899 George Byron Gordon Feb 1, 1910–Jan 30, 1927 Jane M. McHugh (Acting) 1927–1929 Horace H. F. Jayne 1929–1940 George C. Vaillant 1941–1945 Marian Angell Godfrey (Acting) 1945–1947 Froelich G. Rainey 1947–1976 James B. Pritchard (Acting) 1976–1977 Martin Biddle 1977–1981 Robert H. Dyson (Acting) 1981-1982 Robert H. Dyson 1982–1994 Jeremy A. Sabloff 1994–2004 Richard M. Leventhal 2004-2006 Jeremy A. Sabloff (Interim) 2006-2007 Richard Hodges 2007-2012 Julian Siggers 2012-
People
- Biddle, Martin, b. 1937
- Bruckner, Geraldine M., b. 1901-d. 1982
- Craig, Richard T.
- Dyson, Robert H., 1927-
- Rainey, Froelich, Director of the University Museum
- Ralph, Elizabeth K., 1911-2000
Subject
- Classical Architecture
- Excavations (Archaeology)
- University of Pennsylvania MASCA
- What in the World? (television program)
Place
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania: Penn Museum Archives
- Finding Aid Author
- Finding aid prepared by Jody Rodgers
- Finding Aid Date
- 2/16/2015
Collection Inventory
A General.
Box 1
Accreditation-rough copy.
Box 1
Accreditation 1982.
Box 1
Accreditation Copy and Attachments (1 of 2).
Box 1
Accreditation Copy and Attachments (2 of 2).
Box 1
African section.
Box 1
Aga Khan Award for Architecture (1 of 2).
Box 1
Aga Khan Award for Architecture (2 of 2).
Box 1
Akhenaten Temple Project.
Box 1
Alaska.
Box 1
Amarillo Art Center "Treasures of Ancient Egypt".
Box 2
American Association of Museums.
Box 2
American Association of Museums 1975-1980.
Box 2
American Association of Museums 1981-1982.
Box 2
American Association of Museums Convention Philadelphia 1982.
Box 2
American Association of University Professors.
Box 2
American Council for the Arts.
Box 2
American Historical Archaeology/American Civilization 1977-1981.
Box 2
American Law Institute/American Bar Association Course of Study.
Box 2
American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE).
Box 2
American Research Institute in Turkey 1976-1979.
Box 3
American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) 1980.
Box 3
American Research Institute in Turkey Fellowship Porgram Dec.1980.
Box 3
American Research Institute in Turkey-Papers Dec. 1980.
Box 3
American Section Caracol (Belize).
Box 3
American Section Tikal 1976-1981.
Box 3
American Section General 1976-1981.
Box 3
Annenberg School 1977-1979.
Box 4
Annenberg School 1980.
Box 4
Anthropology 1976-1979.
Box 4
Anthropology 1980.
Box 4
Archaeological Institute of America.
Box 4
Archaeological Site Information.
Box 4
Archaeological Society of Athens.
Box 4
Archives 1981.
Box 4
Association of Science Museum Directors 1979-1981.
Box 5
Association of Science Museums.
Box 5
Ban Chiang (Thailand) 1977-1981.
Box 5
Ban Chiang Exhibition.
Box 5
Biddle 1976, 1977, 1978 (Misc.).
Box 5
Biddle 1979 (Misc.).
Box 5
Biddle 1980 (Misc.).
Box 6
Biddle 1981 (Misc.).
Box 6
Biddle, Birthe Kolbe (Asst. Curator, European Archaeology Section).
Box 6
Biddle, Craig.
Box 6
Board of Managers Ad Hoc Committe Reviewing the 1978.
Box 6
Board of Overseers 1981.
Box 6
British Airways.
Box 6
British Broadcasting Corporation.
Box 6
Brooklyn Museum.
Box 6
Bruckner, Geraldine.
Box 6
Budget FY 1978.
Box 6
Budget FY 1979.
Box 6
Budget FY 1980.
Box 7
Budget FY 1980-.
Box 7
Budget FY 1980/81 April discussion.
Box 7
Budget FY 1981.
Box 7
Budget Review by Sub-Committee on Budget and Planning.
Box 7
Building and Grounds 1976-1978.
Box 7
Building and Grounds 1979.
Box 7
Building and Grounds 1980.
Box 7
Business Office.
Box 7
Buten Museum of Wedgewood.
Box 7
Carbon 14 Lab 1978-1979.
Box 8
Carbon 14 Lab 1980-1981.
Box 8
Carbon 14 Lab 1982 (1 of 2).
Box 8
Carbon 14 Lab 1982 (2 of 2).
Box 8
Carpeting.
Box 8
Case Statement 1979.
Box 8
Case Statement-Backup Papers.
Box 8
Case Statement-Replies.
Box 8
Case Statement Study.
Box 8
Cellulose Nitrate Project (Negative Preservation).
Box 9
Center for Medieval Studies.
Box 9
C.E.T.A. (Comprehensive Employment and Training Act) 1978.
Box 9
China-Chinese Jade Book.
Box 9
China-General.
Box 9
China-Ming Tomb Proposal.
Box 9
Classical Archaeology (CLARC) 1975-1976.
Box 9
Classical Archaeology (CLARC) 1977-1978.
Box 9
Classical Archaeology (CLARC) 1979-1982.
Box 9
Classical Archaeology (CLARC) Meetings.
Box 9
Clippings-Other Museums news.
Box 9
Clippings-University Museum news.
Box 10
Colleges and Universities-Misc.
Box 10
Committee for the Humanities in PA.
Box 10
Complimentary letters.
Box 10
Computer/Computing 1976-1981.
Box 10
Congressional Arts Caucus.
Box 10
Conservation.
Box 10
Conservation of the Built Environment.
Box 10
Continuum.
Box 10
Cook, Alan M.
Box 10
Craig, Richard (current).
Box 10
Craig, Richard (1 of 2).
Box 11
Craig, Richard (2 of 2).
Box 11
Crockett Report.
Box 11
Curators 1979.
Box 11
Curators-Budget Requests-General 1980.
Box 11
Curators-Museology 1976.
Box 11
Curators-Research and Publications 1976-81.
Box 11
Curators 1975-78 (Missing).
Box 11
Cyrene(Libya)-Solicitations.
Box 11
D General.
Box 11
Daily Pennsylvanian.
Box 11
Deaccessioning Policy 1978-1979.
Box 11
Dean's Search Committee (FAS).
Box 12
Director's Office.
Box 12
Director's Office-Objects on Display.
Box 12
Director's Reports 1972-(1980).
Box 12
Dumbarton Oaks.
Box 12
E General.
Box 12
East European Archaeology Conference.
Box 12
Education 1976-1978.
Box 12
Education 1979-1981.
Box 12
Egypt 1976-1978.
Box 12
Egypt 1979.
Box 13
Egypt 1980.
Box 13
Egyptian Artifacts for Sale-Sotheby Parke-Bernet, Inc.
Box 13
Egypt-"The Future of Egypt's Past" Conference.
Box 13
Egypt-"The Search for Ancient Egypt" Exhibit.
Box 13
Egypt Today.
Box 13
Encyclopedia Brittanica.
Box 13
Endowments.
Box 13
Evans Collection.
Box 13
Exhibitions 1976.
Box 13
Exhibitions 1977-1978.
Box 13
Exhibitions 1979-1981.
Box 14
Exhibitions-Basketry.
Box 14
Exhibitions "Camera and I, Belau of Micronesia".
Box 14
Exhibitions "Chinese Jade".
Box 14
Exhibitions "Dowries from Kutch" (India).
Box 14
Exhibitions "Echoes of the Samurai".
Box 14
Exhibitions "Egyptian Mummy".
Box 14
Exhibitions "Era of the Pet: Four Centuries of People and their Dogs".
Box 14
Exhibitions "Florence and Philadelphia" (not held).
Box 14
Exhibitions "Great Ideas".
Box 14
Exhibitions "Lenape".
Box 14
Exhibitions "Maasai".
Box 14
Exhibitions "Music and Dance in Papua New Guinea".
Box 14
Exhibitions "Polynesia".
Box 14
Exhibitions "Shiva, The Manisfestations of".
Box 14
Exhibitions-Syrian.
Box 15
Exhibitions-"Turkish Architecture".
Box 15
Expedition Magazine.
Box 15
Exhibitions 1976-1981.
Box 15
Exhibitions Committee 1971-1980.
Box 15
Explorers Club.
Box 15
F General.
Box 15
Interim Report on FAS Advisory Board on Development.
Box 15
FAS Meetings, Memos, Minutes 1976-1977.
Box 15
FAS Meetings, Memos, Minutes 1978.
Box 15
FAS Meetings, Memos, Minutes 1979.
Box 15
FAS Meetings, Memos, Minutes 1980.
Box 15
Faculty Senate.
Box 15
Fakes and Mysteries.
Box 15
Feasibility Study 1980.
Box 16
Feasibility Study 1981.
Box 16
Films.
Box 16
Finance.
Box 16
Fort Hill, PA-Robert F. Lenhart.
Box 16
Fumigation.
Box 16
G General.
Box 16
Gifts of Artifacts 1976-1981.
Box 16
Goddard College Architectural Research Committee.
Box 17
Goff, Ron.
Box 17
Gordion (Turkey) 1976-1979.
Box 17
Gordion (Turkey) 1980-.
Box 17
Gordion Reports (Rodney S. Young).
Box 17
Gorman, Chester (Selected copies from Anthropology Department files).
Box 17
Gorman, Chester 1975-1981.
Box 17
Graduate Group-Anthropology.
Box 17
Graduate Group-Religious Studies.
Box 17
Grants-Misc. Information on Obtaining.
Box 17
Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance 1979.
Box 18
Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance 1980.
Box 18
Guidelines and Policies 1979-1981.
Box 18
H General.
Box 18
Hellenic Cruise-Finances 1979.
Box 18
Hellenic Cruise-General.
Box 18
Hellenic Cruise-General 1978.
Box 19
Hellenic Cruise-Reunion 1979.
Box 19
History of Art, Department of.
Box 19
Hitchcock, William M.
Box 19
Hudson, Daphne.
Box 19
Hurst, John G.
Box 19
Identification of Objects.
Box 19
India.
Box 19
Institute of Museum Services 1979-1981.
Box 19
Institute of Nautical Archaeology.
Box 19
Insurance.
Box 19
International Classrooms 1977-1981.
Box 20
International Congress on Medieval Studies.
Box 20
International Programs.
Box 20
Introductions and Recommendation letters.
Box 20
Investment.
Box 20
Iran.
Box 20
Istanbul.
Box 20
Jordan.
Box 20
K General.
Box 20
Karnak.
Box 20
Keeper of Collections 1977-1978.
Box 20
Keeper of Collections 1979.
Box 20
Keeper of Collections 1980-1981.
Box 20
Keeper of Monographs.
Box 21
Keeper of Publications 1976-1979.
Box 21
Keeper of Publications 1980.
Box 21
Keeper of Publications 1981.
Box 21
Kevorkian Lecture Series 1977-1982.
Box 21
Knauer, Georg W.
Box 21
Kourion.
Box 21
L General.
Box 21
Labor.
Box 21
Legacy 1981.
Box 21
Legacy/Robeck (WHYY).
Box 22
Library to 1981.
Box 22
Lilley-Pennsylvania Program.
Box 22
Loans 1976-1980.
Box 22
Loans (Out as of December 1, 1980).
Box 22
Lucy Wharton Drexel Medal.
Box 22
M General.
Box 23
Main Line School Night.
Box 23
Mallowen, Dr. Barbara.
Box 23
Malyan 1976-1979.
Box 23
Malyan 1980-.
Box 23
Malyan 1980- (Also 2 bound reports) "Problems of Large Scale Multi-Disciplinary Research: the Malyan Project" and "Summing Up: Malyan Project 1971-1978".
Box 23
Management Team-General.
Box 23
Management Team-Meetings.
Box 23
Marketing/Feasibility/Implementation.
Box 23
MASCA 1977-1978.
Box 23
Executive Committee Meeting 27 April, 1981.
Box 23A
From R.H. Dyson.
Box 23A
Board of Managers.
Box 23A
Board of Managers 1975-1978.
Box 23A
Ad Hoc Committee Review of Board of Managers 1979.
Box 23A
Board of Managers-General Correspondence 1979.
Box 23A
Board of Managers-General Correspondence 1980.
Box 23A
Executive Committee.
Box 23A
Long Range Planning and Development Committee.
Box 23A
Membership Committee.
Box 23A
Nominating and Government Relations Committee to 1980.
Box 23A
Research and Publications Committee.
Box 23A
M. Biddle Synthesis of the University Museum (Dec. 1976).
Box 23A
Middle East Center 1979-1980.
Box 23A
Monographs 1979-1981.
Box 23A
Morocco 1976-1993.
Box 23A
Morocco: Lixus (Rainey and Pritchard 1976-1994).
Box 23A
Museum Council 1979-1981.
Box 23A
Museum Services Reports To and By Mary Elizabeth King 1977-1980.
Box 23A
Museum Shop 1977-1981.
Box 23A
NEA-Application for Renovation Grant 1979.
Box 23A
Overseers, Board of-Reorganization 1980-1981.
Box 23A
Permission to Film 1979-1981.
Box 23A
Reorganization From a Board of Managers To a Board of Overseers.
Box 23A
"Vikings in England" Exhibition.
Box 23A
MASCA 1979.
Box 24
MASCA 1980.
Box 24
MASCA 1981.
Box 24
MASCA-Society and Technology: Metallurgy in Ancient Mesopotamia.
Box 24
Medieval London Project.
Box 24
Medoff, Claudia (Keeper, American Section Collections).
Box 24
Members' Events 1978-1979.
Box 24
Members' Events 1980-1981.
Box 24
Members' Newsletters 1978-1981.
Box 25
Membership 1976-1979.
Box 25
Membership 1980.
Box 25
Meyer, William.
Box 25
MICA.
Box 25
"A Mission Eroded" 1978.
Box 25
Mobile Guides.
Box 25
Munn, Mark.
Box 25
Museum Council 1976-1980.
Box 25
Museum Physical Plans 1975-1976.
Box 25
Museum Program Survey 1979.
Box 25
National Conservation Advisory Council.
Box 26
National Exhibits by Blind Artists 1977-1979.
Box 26
Near East Section.
Box 26
Nevil Gallery for the Blind.
Box 26
Nightingale, Mrs. John T.
Box 26
Oceania Section.
Box 26
Organization Charts 1980.
Box 26
Oriental Studies Section.
Box 26
Orthodox Archaeology.
Box 26
Overseers, Board of-Development and Long Range Planning 1982.
Box 26
P General.
Box 26
Papyrus Collection (with photographs).
Box 26
Penn-Bosphorus Project.
Box 26
Penn-Cairo Coordination Committee.
Box 26
Penn-Israel Program (Tel Michel).
Box 26
Pennsylvania Museums Coalition 1978.
Box 26
Pennsylvania Museums Coalition 1979.
Box 26
Pennsylvania Museums Coalition 1980.
Box 27
Pennsylvania Museums Coalition 1981.
Box 27
Pennsylvania Museums Coalition 1982.
Box 27
Pennsylvania, Commonwealth of 1976-1980.
Box 27
Pennsylvania, Commonwealth of 1981-.
Box 27
Performong Arts Society of Philadelphia.
Box 27
Personnel.
Box 27
Philadelphia, City of.
Box 27
Philadelphia Area Cultural Consortium.
Box 27
Philadelphia City Council Budget Hearings FY 1980.
Box 27
Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Box 28
Philadelphia Transnational Project.
Box 28
Photography.
Box 28
Pitcairn, Mrs.
Box 28
Planning Coordination Group.
Box 28
Political Science Department.
Box 28
Pope, Arthur Upham (Bio. Info).
Box 28
President Meyerson, Martin.
Box 28
Program for the Eighties.
Box 28
Proposed Institute of Field Archaeologists.
Box 28
Provost Girifalco.
Box 28
Provost Gregorian and Stellar.
Box 28
Public Information Officer 1978-1980.
Box 28
Public Information Officer 1981-1982.
Box 28
Public Service Announcements 1980-1981.
Box 28
Publications 1976-1982.
Box 28
Publicity 1975-1979.
Box 28
Publicity 1980.
Box 29
Puerto Rico.
Box 29
Qadesh, Tell Nebi Mend.
Box 29
Rainey, Froelich 1977-.
Box 29
Ralph, Elizabeth K. (Director, Radiocarbon Lab).
Box 29
Registrar.
Box 29
Renovations 1975-1977.
Box 29
Renovations 1978.
Box 29
Replica.
Box 29
Rescue Archaeology.
Box 29
Research and Publications Committee 1981.
Box 29
Research Associates 1977-1979.
Box 29
Research Associates 1980-1981.
Box 29
S General.
Box 30
SAS Dateline.
Box 30
SAS Dean's Correspondence.
Box 30
SAS Dean's Minutes, Meetings and Memos 1981-1982.
Box 30
Scheduling Committee.
Box 30
School of Arts and Sciences.
Box 30
Secretary of the Museum.
Box 30
Security/Life Safety 1981.
Box 31
Security (Ward Report).
Box 31
The Shape of Time: A Workshop with George Kubler on Visual Imagery.
Box 31
Smithsonian Institutiion.
Box 31
South Asia 1974-1976.
Box 31
South Asia 1977-.
Box 31
Staff Memos 1976-1978.
Box 31
Staff Memos 1979-1981.
Box 31
Staff-Open Office Hours.
Box 31
Statement of Activity.
Box 32
Thera and Aegean World.
Box 32
Tricentennial.
Box 32
UNESCO Convention on Cultural Property-House Bill 3403.
Box 32
U. of P. Academic Planning and Budget Advisory Committee.
Box 32
U. of Pennsylvania- Annual Reports.
Box 32
U. of Pennsylvania-Council.
Box 32
U. of Pennsylvania-General 1976-1978.
Box 32
U. of Pennsylvania-General 1979.
Box 33
U. of Pennsylvania-General 1980.
Box 33
U. of Pennsylvania-General 1981.
Box 33
U. of Pennsylvania-General 1982.
Box 33
U. of Pennsylvania-General Planning and Budget Questionnaire 1979.
Box 33
U. of Pennsylvania-Guidelines for Sponsored Research 1980.
Box 33
U. of Pennsylvania-International Relations.
Box 33
U. of Pennsylvania-Strike 1980.
Box 33
U.S. Legislature.
Box 33
Victorian Tea Dance May 15, 1983.
Box 33
Vikings in England Exhibition.
Box 33
Visitors in the Museum.
Box 33
Volunteer Guides.
Box 33
Walmsley.
Box 34
War or Peace.
Box 34
What in the World-CBS Cable.
Box 34
What in the World-Channel 10.
Box 34
What in the World-Channel 12.
Box 34
What in the World-Channel 57.
Box 34
What in the World-Contracts, Trademark, Acheson.
Box 34
What in the World-Tax.
Box 34
WNET-"Civilization and the Jews".
Box 34
Women's Committee 1976-1978.
Box 35
Women's Committee 1979-1980.
Box 35
Women's Committee 1981.
Box 35
Women's Committee Tours.
Box 35
Work Processing Info.
Box 35
World Archaeology.
Box 35
Zinman, Phillip.
Box 35
Zoo Reception for Staff 1982.
Box 35
May 1978-July 31, 1978.
Box 36
August 1, 1978-September 19, 1978.
Box 36
October 1978.
Box 36
November 1978.
Box 36
December 1978.
Box 36
January 1979 (1 of 2).
Box 36
January 1979 (2 of 2).
Box 36
February 1979.
Box 37
March 1979.
Box 37
April 1-15 1979.
Box 37
April 16-30 1979.
Box 37
May 1979.
Box 37
June 1979.
Box 37
July 1979.
Box 38
August 1979.
Box 38
September 1979.
Box 38
October 1979.
Box 38
November 1979.
Box 38
December 1979.
Box 38
January 1980.
Box 38
February 1980.
Box 38
March 1980.
Box 39
April 1980.
Box 39
May 1980.
Box 39
June 1980.
Box 39
July 1980.
Box 39
August 1980.
Box 39
September 1980.
Box 39
October 1980.
Box 40
November 1980.
Box 40
December 1980.
Box 40
January 1981.
Box 40
February 1981.
Box 40
March 1981.
Box 40
April 1981.
Box 40
May 1981.
Box 40
June 1981.
Box 40
Calendar (Copy) M.B. 1977-1979.
Box 40
Calendar (Copy) M.B. 1980.
Box 40