Explore holdings from the Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives and the Dumbarton Oaks Archives.
Select individual collections for more information and to access the materials. For general questions, please contact Library@doaks.org.
Byzantine Studies
- Digitized Byzantine Rare Books
- Manuscript-on-Microfilm Database
- Albert Mathias Friend, Jr. (1894–1956): Papers (Dumbarton Oaks Archives)
- Alexander Alexandrovich Vasiliev (1867–1953): Research Papers (Dumbarton Oaks Archives)
- Alexander Alexandrovich Vasiliev (1867-1953): Office Papers (Dumbarton Oaks Archives)
- André Grabar (1896–1990): Papers (Dumbarton Oaks Archives)
- Arthur Kingsley Porter Photographs of Architecture and Manuscripts, 1980s
- Byzantine Black and White Mounted Photograph Collection
- Byzantine Institute and Dumbarton Oaks Fieldwork Records and Papers, ca. late 1920s
- Charles Tauss Papers and Records of the Kariye Camii Museum Project, ca. 1955-1990s
- Corpus of Early Christian and Byzantine Silver, 1981-1986
- Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Census Project, ca. 1930s-1980s
- Dumbarton Oaks’ Byzantine Symposia Photographs, 1945–2008
- Dumbarton Oaks Research Archive Project, ca. 1940s
- Early Archaeological Projects Associated with Thomas Whittemore
- Edward Eliopoulos Photographs of Mani, Greece, 1958-1980
- Edward Kennard Rand (1871–1945): Papers (Dumbarton Oaks Archives)
- Ernst Kitzinger (1912–2003): Papers (Dumbarton Oaks Archives)
- Ernst Kitzinger Research Papers and Photographs
- Francis Dvornik (1893–1975): Papers and Images (Dumbarton Oaks Archives)
- Frank Kidner photographs, 1983-1999
- Franklin M. Biebel Photograph Albums of Mosaics, ca. 1950s
- Hans Belting Research Papers and Photographs, ca. 1960s-1980s
- Hayford Peirce Research Papers and Photographs, 1883-1946
- Henri Grégoire (1881–1964): Papers (Dumbarton Oaks Archives)
- Henry Maguire and Ann Terry Poreč Archive, 1990s-2000s
- Illuminated Manuscript Photographs Collection, ca. 1950
- Index of Medieval Art, 1917-present (formerly Index of Christian Art)
- Josephine M. Harris Research Papers and Photographs on Coptic Architectural Sculpture from Oxyrhynchos, ca. 1950s-1970s
- Kurt Weitzmann (1904–1993): Papers (Dumbarton Oaks Archives)
- Kurt Weitzmann Photographs of Manuscripts, 1980s–1990s
- Margaret Alexander Papers and Records of the Corpus des Mosaïques de Tunisie, ca. 1940s
- Marc Rosenberg (1852–1930): Papers (Dumbarton Oaks Archives)
- Mildred Barnes and Robert Woods Bliss Correspondence with Kirsopp and Silva Lake, 1934
- Miodrag Marković and Dragan Vojvodić Photographs of Churches in Serbia and Macedonia, 2008
- Nathalie P. Scheffer Research Papers, 1940-1965
- Nicholas V. Artamonoff Photographs of Istanbul and Turkey, 1935-1945
- North Adriatic Project fieldwork records and papers, circa 1974-1990
- Otto Demus (1902–1990): Papers and San Marco Mosaics Project Papers and Corpus of North Adriatic Mosaics Papers (Dumbarton Oaks Archives)
- Paul Hetherington Photographs of Greece, circa 1960-2001
- Paul Underwood Research Papers and Project Materials on the Reconstruction of the church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople, ca. 1936-1950s
- Record of 1937 Trip Taken by Donald Drew Egbert and Andrew Saeger Keck, Princeton, NJ, February-July 1937
- Robert L. Van Nice Fieldwork Records and Papers, ca. 1936-1989
- Romilly Jenkins (1907–1969): Papers (Dumbarton Oaks Archives)
- Sirarpie Der Nersessian Papers and Photographs, 1939-1966
- Sirarpie Der Nersessian (1896–1989): Papers and Photographs (Dumbarton Oaks Archives)
- Thomas Whittemore Papers
- William Earl Betsch Photographs of Architectural Capitals in Istanbul, 1970
Garden and Landscape Studies
- Digitized Garden and Landscape Rare Books
- Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives
- Dumbarton Oaks Gardens: winter and summer scenes, ca. 1920s-1940s
- David Robbins Coffin Papers, 1918–2003
- British Gardens Aerial Photographs Study Collection
- Florence Lee Powell photographs and writings on Chinese gardens, 1926-1943
- Contemporary Landscape Design Collection
- Seed Catalogues
Pre-Columbian Studies
- Digitized Pre-Columbian Rare Books
- Anne Paul, Paracas Textile Archive
- Bliss Travel Archive, Guatemala, 1935
- William and Barbara Conklin papers on Precolumbian textiles, approximately 1960s-2010s
- Dellenback archive of stone sculpture from Colombia
- Donald Proulx Nasca Archive
- Justin Kerr Maya Archive, 1966-2012
- Moche Archive
- Nicholas Hellmuth: Maya Ceramic Archive
- Robert Woods Bliss personal archive of 1958 catalogue of Pre-Colombian Art
- Roosevelt and Cross Archive, Peru, 1934
- Thelma Sullivan Archive
- Thomson Expedition Archive, Yucatan, Mexico, 1888
- Vergara Archive of pyroengraved gourds from Peru
- Yuri Valentinovich Knorozov Papers, 1945-1998
Institutional History
- Architectural Plans and Drawings
- Frederick H. Brooke Architectural Plans and Drawings, ca. 1921–1923
- Cunningham–Quill Architects, ca. 2011–2012
- Beatrix Farrand Architectural Plans and Drawings, ca. 1933
- George E. Hartman Architectural Plans and Drawings, ca. 1983–1988
- Hugh N. Jacobsen, 1975
- Philip Johnson Architectural Plans and Drawings, ca. 1959–1963
- Frederic Rhinelander King Architectural Plans and Drawings, ca. 1960–1964
- Macomber & Peter Architects, 1961
- Armand Albert Rateau Architectural Plans and Drawings, ca. 1929–1930
- Robert Venturi Architectural Plans and Drawings, ca. 2000–2005
- Thomas T. Waterman Architectural Plans and Drawings, ca. 1939–1946
- Lawrence Grant White Architectural Plans and Drawings, ca. 1923–1929
- Blissiana Files and Artifacts
- Historical Papers (additional collections listed above, under Byzantine Studies)
- French & Company: Correspondence and Related Documents, 1920–1967