Correspondence
This accession consists of correspondence created and maintained by Ann Clyburn Gunter, Assistant Curator, 1987-1994, and Associate Curator, 1994-2008, documenting interactions with dealers, scholars, researchers, and museum professionals.
Curatorial Records
This accession consists of records created and maintained by Ann C. Gunter, Curator of Ancient Near Eastern Art, documenting the development of exhibitions and programs. The two exhibitions featured are "When Kingship Descended from Heaven: Masterpieces of Mesopotamian Art from the Louvre" (1992) and "Nomads and Nobility: Art of the Ancient …
Curatorial Records
This accession consists of records documenting the curatorial activities of Ann Clyburn Gunter, Associate Curator, 1994-2008. Curatorial activities documented in this accession include organizing symposiums, collecting objects, and writing articles. Materials include memoranda, correspondence, notes, pamphlets, articles, newsletters, participant lists, biographies, curricula vitae, bibliographical information, symposium proceedings, and related materials. Some …
Joseph Lindon Smith papers
bulk 1873-1965
The papers of Boston and New Hampshire painter Joseph Lindon Smith date from 1647-1965, with the bulk of papers dating from 1873-1965, and measure 8.8 linear feet. Found within the papers are biographical materials; letters from family members, artists, museums, and art patrons; seven diaries by Smith and two by his wife Corinna, personal business records, notes and writings, files concerning charitable theatrical productions, one sketchbook and other art work, a scrapbook, printed material, photographs, and sound recordings of radio interviews and a radio program on Smith.
Albert Gallatin papers
Letters from curators and dealers of antiquities, including Bernard V. Bothmer, and Henry George Fischer; and fourteen object cards for works in Gallatin's collection. Several of the letters received from Bothmer respond to an interest Gallatin expresses in an Egyptian statuette of King Piankhi (made ca. dynasty XXV) that has …
Curatorial Records
This accession consists of records documenting the curatorial activities of Ann Clyburn Gunter, Assistant Curator of Ancient Near Eastern Art, 1987-1994; Associate Curator, 1994-2004; and Curator, 2004-2008. Curatorial activities documented in this accession include research, exhibition development, publishing, and collection management. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, proposals, object lists, articles, bibliographies, floor plans, brochures …
Exhibition Records
This accession consists of records documenting the condition of objects displayed in the exhibitions, "Rise to Power: Art of Ancient Japan;" "Court Arts of Indonesia;" "Ancient Cities of the Indus Valley;" and "Timur and the Princely Vision: Persian Art and Culture in the Fifteenth Century." Materials include condition reports, object …
MS 2500 Extract from "Outlines of the ancient history of medicine: being a view of the progress of the healing art among the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans and Arabians"
Division of Old World Archeology collection of photographs of ancient sculpture, architecture, and art
2 Cyanotypes
1 Print (halftone)
Photographs depicting classical art and architecture from Rome, Egypt and elsewhere. They include images of classical sculpture in Rome, an Egyptian papyrus, as well as additional sculpture, coins, and other items. There is also a postcard from A. C. Haddon that shows Smart & Copley's photograph of the Matopos in Zimbabwe …
Audiovisual Records
This accession consists of records documenting films and videos produced by the Office of Education. The most documented film in this accession is "The Art of the Hyo-gushi," a 45 minute film following the restoration of three Japanese paintings by Takahi Sugiura and his assistants, Shigero Mikkachi and Makoto Souta. Other …
