ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Title
Ancient Mycenae and Tiryns Photograph Album
Collection Number
SC 479
OCLC Number
1147877465
Creator
Unknown
Provenance
Donated by Carol Marburger. The item was formerly owned by John H. Marburger III,
who collected works of James Whaler. It is thought that James Whaler typed and pasted
this note in the album: "...This and the other pictures of Mycenae * Tiryns, etc.
I bought at a secondhand store in Baltimore in 1936. They were pasted in a dilapidated
album, from which I removed them--with more or less success. It was evidently a German
group of scientists and historians, for some of the handwritten captions are in German,
and the people pictured seem almost all to be German."
Extent,Scope, and Content Note
The collection is comprised of one volume, a black leather album measuring 19 cm.
x 27 cm. It contains photographs taken in the 1890s that document people and scenery
in the archaeological sites of Mycenae and Tiryns in Greece.
Arrangement and Processing Note
Finding aid by Kristen J. Nyitray and Lynn Toscano in September 2019.
Language
English and German
Restrictions on Access
The collection is open to researchers without restriction.
Rights and Permissions
Stony Brook University Libraries' consent to access as the physical owner of the collection
does not address copyright issues that may affect publication rights. It is the sole
responsibility of the user of Special Collections and University Archives materials
to investigate the copyright status of any given work and to seek and obtain permission
where needed prior to publication.
Citation
Ancient Mycenae and Tiryns Photograph Album, Special Collections and University Archives, Stony Brook University Libraries.
Historical Note
"The archaeological sites of Mycenae and Tiryns are the imposing ruins of the two
greatest cities of the Mycenaean civilization, which dominated the eastern Mediterranean
world from the 15th to the 12th century B.C. and played a vital role in the development
of classical Greek culture. These two cities are indissolubly linked to the Homeric
epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, which have influenced European art and literature for more than three millennia."
(Source: UNESCO)
Subjects
Mycenae (Extinct city) -- Photographs.
Tiryns (Extinct city) -- Photographs.
Civilization, Mycenaean.
Antiquities.
Greece.
Greece -- Mycenae (Extinct city)
Greece -- Tiryns (Extinct city)
Architecture, Ancient -- Greece.