Byzantine Image and Archival Collections

The collection is comprised of research notes, publication materials, correspondence, photographs, and slides that relate to the fieldwork and publication associated with the Corpus des Mosaïques de Tunisie (CMT), or Corpus of Tunisian Mosaics.

The collection includes 544 photographs taken in Istanbul and five archaeological sites in Western Turkey (Ephesus, Hierapolis, Laodicea on the Lycus, Pergamum, Priene) from 1935 to 1945.

Photographs, research notes, and correspondence related to Late Byzantine manuscript illumination.

The collection contains 55 rolls of negatives and 1 notebook from Betsch’s survey of architectural capitals in Istanbul, Turkey.

The albums include photographs, plans, and documentary information on floor mosaics from Byzantium and the West; the most extensive coverage is of the Gerasa (Jerash) mosaics.

The collection contains correspondence among Robert Woods and Mildred Barnes Bliss and Kirsopp and Silva Lake, most commonly letters between Kirsopp Lake and Mildred Barnes Bliss.

The collection includes over 75,000 mounted black-and-white photographic prints of Byzantine art, architecture, and archaeology, its bulk being from the fourth through the fifteenth century.

This collection contains fieldwork records and papers produced by the staff of the Byzantine Institute and Dumbarton Oaks, as well as Thomas Whittemore and Paul Underwood, between the 1920s and 2000s.

Group photographs of symposia participants between 1945 and 2008

The collection documents approximately 1,500 Byzantine silver vessels and utensils produced for liturgical and domestic use between 300 and 1453 CE within the geographical boundaries of the Roman and Byzantine Empires.

The collection mainly documents Der Nersessian's professional life at Dumbarton Oaks from 1944 to 1963.

The Census of Objects of Early Christian and Byzantine Art in North American Collections contains over 12,000 mounted black-and-white photographic prints of Byzantine objects in North American collections, both public and private.

The collection includes slides donated by or purchased from scholars, other institutions, or vendors, depicting a wide range of subjects from Byzantine art and architecture.

The collection consists of photographs and research notes related to Early Christian and Byzantine monuments. Geographic coverage includes: Algeria, Bulgaria, Egypt, Greece, Italy, Libya, Syria, Transjordan, Tunisia, Turkey, and (former) Yugoslavia.

The albums record a trip to Europe and the Middle East taken by Egbert and Keck in 1937, including photographs of architectural monuments and archaeological sites from all periods as well as snapshots of landscapes, street and roadside scenes, and portraits of the travelers.

The collection comprises 106 photographic prints by Edward Eliopoulos documenting Byzantine churches in Mani, Greece.

The collection consists of Josephine M. Harris’s documentation of Coptic architectural sculpture from the site of Oxyrhynchos, Egypt (3rd–6th century CE).

This collection primarily documents Byzantine and Medieval architecture throughout Greece in photographs by Paul Hetherington taken between 1960 and 2001.

Images depict architecture in Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Israel, and Lebanon.

This collection gathers together photographs of Byzantine and Armenian manuscript illuminations photographed by the Library of Congress, scholars, museums and other photograph archives. A significant portion of the collection reflects the research of Armeno-Byzantine art historian, Sirarpie Der Nersessian.

The Index of Christian Art is a thematic and iconographic index of early Christian and medieval art objects to 1400 begun at Princeton University in 1917.

Photographs document Frank Kidner’s travels through the eastern Mediterranean and North Africa, as well as a few Maya sites in Central America.

The collection documents the fieldwork project undertaken by Kitzinger to survey twelfth-century Norman mosaics in Sicily during the 1950s, including those at the Capella Palatina and Martorana in Palermo and at the cathedrals in Cefalù and Monreale.

The collection documents Maguire and Terry’s study of the mosaics at the Eufrasiana Basilica in Poreč, Croatia, which they conducted over three campaigns in 1997, 1999, and 2000.

Photographic documentation of churches in Serbia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

This collection includes comprehensive research and conservation materials related to mosaics in the North Adriatic area.

Peirce’s papers consist almost entirely of photographs, newspaper and magazine clippings, and drawings. This collection of research materials reflects his broad interest in Early Christian and Middle Byzantine art.

Selections from Porter's photograph collection at Harvard University's Fine Arts Library that Porter took and compiled in the early 20th century.

The collection primarily contains research notes about Russian art and iconography.

The collection includes photographic documentation of conservation work performed by Tauss on the frescoes at the Kariye Camii in Istanbul, Turkey from 1984 to 1989.