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Athens (inhabited place)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 35 Collections and/or Records:

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1 case containing glass slides of Italy, England, Greece and France, 1955

Reference Code: GBR/3437/WDTR/3/1/4
Scope and Contents In 1955 Lord Taylour photographs various locations in England, France, Italy, Sicily and Greece, including Hever Castle, Paris, Rome, Monreale, Siracusa, Athens, Venice, Stratford-on-Avon and Cambridge colleges. This is a varied album, comprising of images of ancient Greek and Roman architectural sites and artwork, castles, churches and cathedrals, views of streets, Renaissance art, and landscapes, as well slides of Cambridge colleges and a fantastic image of Laurence Olivier and Vivien...
Dates: 1955
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Acropolis. Hill Lycobetus, 1920

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/3/70
Scope and Contents

68 x 43 mm.

Dates: 1920
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Acropolos, 5.2.20, 1920-02-05

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/1/265
Scope and Contents

70 x 45 mm.

Dates: 1920-02-05
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Athens, 1920

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/2/47
Scope and Contents

125 x 80 mm.

Dates: 1920
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Athens, 5.2.20, 1920-02-05

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/1/266
Scope and Contents

70 x 40 mm.

Dates: 1920-02-05
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Athens from Mt Kynthos, 1905, 1905

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/1
Scope and Contents

A panoramic view looking over the city.

Dates: 1905
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Athens, Lycobetus [i.e. Lycabettus], 5.2.20, 1920-02-05

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/1/254
Scope and Contents

140 x 85 mm. A view taken from a high aspect (perhaps from an aeroplane) of Athens, with Lycobetus hill in the middle background. Lycobetus hill is also known as Licavitos.

Dates: 1920-02-05
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Athens. Odeum, 1920

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/3/81
Scope and Contents

68 x 44 mm.

Dates: 1920
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Athens Odeum, 5.2.20, 1920-02-05

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/1/263
Scope and Contents

70 x 50 mm.

Dates: 1920-02-05
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Athens. Parthenon, 1920

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/3/161
Scope and Contents

68 x 44 mm.

Dates: 1920
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Athens, people, undated, 1910-1917?

Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/3/32
Scope and Contents 18 photographs: 4 views of the Parthenon on the acropolis of Athens, 3 of the British School at Athens, 2 of AJBW in Vlach dress, 3 of an expedition to a monastery, 1 postcard view of the Acropolis from a distance under snow annotated in black ink by AJBW, 'December 1917', 5 images of people standing or sitting outside their houses. It is not clear if these snapshot portraits were taken in Athens or are actually located in another part of Greece, the images may have perhaps over time been...
Dates: undated, 1910-1917?
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Athens. Temple Bacchus, 1920

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/3/78
Scope and Contents

68 x 43 mm.

Dates: 1920
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Athens. Temple Jupiter Acropolis, 1920

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/3/69
Scope and Contents

69 x 44 mm.

Dates: 1920
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Athens. Temple of Jupiter, 1920

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/3/71
Scope and Contents

44 x 68 mm.

Dates: 1920
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Athens. Turkish Mosque, 1920

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/3/79
Scope and Contents

70 x 44 mm.

Dates: 1920
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Athens - University, 4.2.20, 1920-02-04

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/1/267
Scope and Contents

70 x 45 mm.

Dates: 1920-02-04
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Athens University and Museum, 1920

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/3/162
Scope and Contents

69 x 45 mm.

Dates: 1920
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Australia; Sydney, Newcastle, the Blue Mountains; farms in Victoria and Melbourne, 1908

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/1-87
Scope and Contents

Also described as: 'The Roaring Forties and Australia 1908'.

Dates: 1908
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Book B [views of Innsbruck, Padua, Venice, Athens], 1902

Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/3/3
Scope and Contents Small album of monochrome photographs, inscribed in ink on the verso of the front cover, 'A. J. B. Wace Book B'. Paginated by AJBW, each photograph titled in pencil on the cardboard mount. Contains views of Innsbruck, Venice, Athens, Kephisia and Laurium. The album dates from Wace's tenure as a Student at the British School of Athens in 1902-1903, dcomenting his intial journey across the Alps, via Venice to Athens. Photographs taken in Athens include views taken from the gardens of...
Dates: 1902
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Book G [archaeological sites in Athens, the Peloponnese and western Asia Minor]

Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/3/9
Scope and Contents

Photographs of archaeological sites, each photograph titled in pencil on the cardboard mount by AJBW. Includes images from Athens and the Peloponnese, Greece, and western Asia Minor (modern day Turkey).
93 photographic prints, 3 empty apertures with prints missing upon accession.

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Half plate Negative Album Book 3, bulk: 1905-1910

Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/3/53
Scope and Contents 50 halfplate negatives. The Index as filled in by AJBW only goes up to and includes Item 39. Many negatives removed long before accession to the Faculty Archives, as part of an 'HS Series', by AJBW. Includes views of Pergamon in western Asia Minor (Turkey), the island of Delos, Geraki and Mistras in Lakonia, classical sculpture in museum collections in Rome and Turin, pottery in Thessaly, the Acropolis of Athens, Lykabettos, the British School at Athens Hostel and finally, a...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1905-1910
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Istanbul and Athens, 1902-1910

Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/3/25
Scope and Contents 4 half plate images of stone reliefs on early Byzantine monuments in Constantinople/Istanbul (the kathisma on the obelisk of Thedosius, taken in situ by AJBW who put his finger over the lens) 3 half plate images of ancient fortification walls in the landscape 9 smaller prints with images featuring a large church or monastery (4 copies of this image), grape vines (2 copies of this image), a small port town, a rocky outcrop in a rural setting, Mount Lykabettos (Λυκαβηττός) seen from...
Dates: 1902-1910
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L Miscellaneous Ireland and Greece 1958-1959, 1958 - 1972

Reference Code: GBR/3437/WDTR/3/2/35
Scope and Contents

This file holds slides from locations across Ireland, Scotland and Greece, including Headfort, Carton, Marathon, Mycenae, Tiryns, Athens and Hymettus. Featured in this album are images of Lord Taylour's mother's and father's graves, views of gardens, trees and plants, panoramic landscapes and mountain ranges, family, friends and dogs, perspectives of Headfort House, as well as monumental archaeological remains at Mycenae, Marathon, Tiryns and Athens.

Dates: 1958 - 1972
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Letter from James Stewart in Athens re Christmas dinner at the BSA and Dr Berta Segel's theories on a gold cup recently acquired by the Benaki Museum, 1935-12-25

Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/2/1/24/8
Scope and Contents Addressed 'Athens', dated 25 December 1935. They have arrived at Athens from Cyprus via Rhodes. Stewart does not warm to Athens nor finds the British School (BSA) to offer congenial company. He continues his discussion of Cypriot Neolithic wares and his conviction that those thus identified by Dikaios are actually Chalcolithic. At the BSA Christmas dinner he met Dr Berta Segal, working on jewellery at the Benaki Museum, who showed him a gold cup found on Euboea which had been bought by A....
Dates: 1935-12-25
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Negative Album [Athens and the British School at Athens]

Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/3/60
Scope and Contents

24 negatives, none indexed by AJBW, of views of the British School at Athens and daily life in Greece as witnessed by AJBW.

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