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"
Egyptian Bombyliids Collection, Watercolors
This collection consists of 84 watercolor paintings of Egyptian Bombyliids, or bee flies, executed by three Russian artists, Roman Strekalovsky, Nicholas Strekalovsky, and E. Kassessinoff. The paintings were done for a planned manuscript on the Bombyliids of Egypt by H. C. Efflatoun. Also included is a copy of Efflatoun's unpublished manuscript …
Frank Mason Good photograph of Egyptian women grinding corn
Stereoview of two women grinding corn between two large round stones in Cairo, Egypt.
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 …
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 …
MS 3277 Collection of printed articles and illustrations relative to pottery
Clipped from magazines such as Harper's ca. 1874-1878. Mostly concerns Old World.
Suzanne E. Chapman papers
The scattered papers of watercolorist Suzanne Chapman measure 0.2 linear feet and date from 1934 to 1991. Found are biographical material, correspondence, three photographs, printed material, and a project file.
Adolphe Braun photographs of art in European museums
Photographs depicting Roman, Greek, Assyrian, and Egyptian sculpture in European museums. Most of the images were made in the British Museum, but others were made at the Vatican, the Louvre, and in Florence.
Egyptian Postcard Album
1 Boxe
120 Postcards (color, 8 x 10 in. or smaller.)
Postcards of Lower and Upper Egypt published in the first decade of the 20th century. The majority of the postcards are unused, but some of them had been posted between 1900 and 1906.
Origins Gallery records
The records of the Origin Gallery measure 1.5 linear feet and date from 1961 to 1982. The records primarily consist of sales records cards and either business cards or index cards for galleries and dealers, and for experts in specific subject matter such as woodworking, Egyptian jewelry, and Japanese masks. The sales records cards contain information including buyer contact information, invoice number, description of item purchased, price, and whether item was purchased in full or in installments.
