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Attika (region)

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Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Scope Note: Greece

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

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Book D [Pelops Aegean Cruise, ancient sites and landscape in Arkadia, Lakonia and Attika], 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/3/5
Scope and Contents Pelops Aegean Cruise photographs, beginning with the collision at Piraeus. Images of achaeological sites at Delos, Mykonos, Melos, Thera, Knossos, Palaekastro, Rhodes, Priene, Ephesus, Assos, Troy, Mytilene and ending with an inland trip to Delphi. Additionally, Wace visited Hosios Loukas monastery on the slopes of Mt Helikon on the return journey from Delphi. Visit to the archaeological sites of Lykosura, Bassae, Valley of Neda, Olympia, Messene, Mt. Ithome, Sellasia and Corinth in Arkadia...
Dates: 1903
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Parnes - May 1918 [Πάρνηθα, Negatives], 1918-05

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/3/69
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2 images of Parnes (ancient Greek Πάρνης , modern Greek Πάρνηθα or mount Parnitha). One image is of this mountainous, rural landscape north of Athens in Attika, the other of two men eated in the landscape - possubly AJBW and a friend. (However, until these negatives have postive prints made of them, it it is impossible to identify them definitively.)

Dates: 1918-05
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Thessaly, Jan-Feb 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/3/21
Scope and Contents 29 positive photographic prints in total of 27 views of landscape, coastline, ancient fortification walls and archaeological ruins, villages and villagers - often dressed as mummers (actors). 2 negative photographic prints for which no positive print exists. Together with an envelope titled and dated by AJBW, 'Thessaly, Jan-Feb1910'. AJBW wrote a title in pencil on the back for 16 of the prints, if he doubted his attribution of place, he included a question mark to denote his...
Dates: Jan-Feb 1910