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Athens (inhabited place)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 44 Collections and/or Records:

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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?

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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]

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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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BSA Hostel Garden [British School at Athens, 2 Positive Prints and 2 Negatives], 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/3/68
Scope and Contents

2 postive prints of AJBW holding a croquet mallet in the BSA gardens. Also a negative image of the photograph of him in shirt sleeves and a blank negative, where the image has either faded entirely or there never was an image on that frame of film.

Dates: 1918
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[Draft text for a study of the classical architecture and topography of ancient Athens], 1890-1896

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/JHMN/1/7
Scope and Contents

Handwritten draft of a text on the classical architecture and topography of ancient Athens. Most probably the initial draft for a companion volume to Middleton's book on Rome: Middleton, J. H. The Remains of Ancient Rome / London: Adam and Charles Black, 1892.

Dates: 1890-1896
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Films, Spring 1916, Pendeli etc [Πεντέλη, also a tennis match at the British School at Athens, Negatives], 1916

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/3/63
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10 negative prints, 6 of Springtime in 1916 in Pendeli, in northern Athens on the slopes of Mount Pentelikon [Πεντελικό Όρος], one image is of a young woman, possibly one of the Droppers family. 4 of a tennis match held at the British School at Athens, featuring a portly Gerry Droppers and other younger male and female participants.

Dates: 1916
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For Gerry Droppers ,1920, Mycenae [Negatives], 1920

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/3/73
Scope and Contents

Photographs taken in 1920 at the British School at Athens and the British excavation at Mycenae. Images feature the family (wife and daughters) of Garrett (Gerry) Droppers, the American Ambassador to Greece from 1914 to 1920. They are pictured both in the gardens of the British School at Athens and at Mycenae during the British excavations there.

Dates: 1920
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Half plate Negative Album Book 3, bulk: 1905-1910

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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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