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Date : XIXe s. - 2006

Organisme responsable
Bibliothèque byzantine (Collège de France) / Service des archives

Description :
The Fonds Thomas Whittemore - Institut byzantin, ca. 1890s-1960s, consists of correspondence, annual reports, acquisition lists, newspaper clippings, postcards, article extracts, translations, photographic prints, film and glass plate negatives, ephemeral items, as well as manuscripts, specimens, moldings of seals and coins, Coptic textiles, and icons. The collection primarily documents the history, mission, and activities of the Paris Library of the Byzantine Institute (Paris Library) in Paris, France, between the 1920s and 1960s. It also documents Thomas Whittemore's archaeological and humanitarian missions in North Africa and Eastern Europe between the 1910s and 1920s, as well as the preservation projects of The Byzantine Institute, Inc., (Byzantine Institute) in Istanbul, Turkey, from the 1930s to the 1940s.
This collection also includes personal correspondence from/to Thomas Whittemore, Boris N. Ermoloff, and Mathew S. Prichard. There are also travel photographs, journals and/or quarterly magazines from Tufts College between 1891 and 1906, and papers that were created and/or kept by Ermoloff concerning a masonic lodge in Paris, France.
Furthermore, Jean Ebersolt's and Marc Rosenberg's personal papers (in whole or in part) are also included in this collection. They mostly contain research notes, article extracts, newspaper clippings, and photographs.
Domaines : Archéologie, Histoire de l'art.
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Producteur du fonds ou collectionneur :	Whittemore, Thomas (1871-1950)
	Ebersolt, Jean (1879-1933)
	Rosenberg, Marc (1852-1930)
Auteur :	Whittemore, Thomas (1871-1950)
	Ermolov, Boris Nikolaevich (1891-1967)
	Prichard, Matthew Stewart (1865-1936)
Destinataire :	Whittemore, Thomas (1871-1950)
Sujet :	Archéologie
	Histoire de l'art
Technique(s) :	photographie
	impression photomécanique
	objet
Genre(s), forme(s) et fonction(s) :	correspondance
	carte postale
	coupure de presse
Types de documents :	texte imprimé
	texte manuscrit
	image fixe

BYZ-WHI 1-40 Fonds Thomas Whittemore - Institut byzantin (ca.1890-1960)