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.

This collection contains aerial photographs of historic estates and gardens in the United Kingdom.

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.

The collection consists of Coffin’s personal papers and materials relating to his teaching career at Princeton University and his scholarly research interests in Renaissance architecture and garden history.

Materials pertaining to William Conklin's activities as a collector and scholar of Precolumbian textiles primarily from South American cultures

The collection focuses on a select group of contemporary landscape designers from around the world and a selection of their most significant projects. Materials were selected with the goal of illuminating each designer’s design process, including preliminary studies, documentation of the design period, documentation of the finished product, and finally, the project's evolution.

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 includes original drawings by Dellenback of sculptures from the group known as "Pueblo Escultor."

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.

Group photographs of symposia participants between 1945 and 2008

The combined footage illustrates Dumbarton Oaks when it was still a private residence, as well as when it became an institute of Harvard University in 1940.

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.