Negative Album SS Peneios and SS Pelops Cruises, 1904 - 1905

File

Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/3/56

Scope and Contents

40 quarter plate negatives from the SS Peneios Cruise to AJBW/3/56/34 and from the SS Pelops Cruise from AJBW/3/56/36 to the end. Index at the front in Wace's hand lists 35 negatives, however some of these were missing upon accesison to the archives and others extant are unlisted by Wace. Views of archaeological sites visited, from the Aegean - Aegina, Delos, Poros, Troy, Ephesus, Bodrum (Harlicanassus), Miletus, Didyma, Samos, Mykonos, Milos, Thera, round to the Ionian (Olympia). Also an inland trip to Delphi.

Dates

Creation: 1904 - 1905

Creator

From the Fonds: Wace, Alan John Bayard, 1879-1957 (archaeologist) (Person)

Extent

40 photographic print(s) : cellulose nitrate negatives

Additional Description

Custodial History

Former reference 'Wace Archive 026', Cambridge transfer, Box 13

Related Materials

The prints from these negatives were placed by Wace in an untitled album, AJBW/3/8 ('Archaeological sites in the Peloponnese and the Aegean - via S. S. Peneios; Rome and Campagna, Italy; St. Remy de Provence, France').

Physical Description

Negative album, navy blue waxed cloth cover with press stud fastening to secure front flap, bound on short left edge. Cover embossed in gold print, 'Kodak Negative Album'. H. 8.7 x W. 15 cm. 100 glassine sleeves with numbers 1 to 100 printed sequentially in black ink.
3 leaves of printed index at the front, titles of negatives written in by hand in pencil by AJBW.
Sleeves 9, 11, 12, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 23, 24, 26, 28, 35, 37, 39, 41, 43 to 51, 57, 59, 63, 65, 69 to 70, 72, 100 were empty upon accession of album in the archives.

Processing Information

These 40 negatives were digitally photographed in May 2022 by Amélie M. F. Deblauwe of the Digital Photography Unit, University of Cambridge for upload to the Cambridge Digital Library.