Film footage shot by Chuck Nash, a Beloit college student, during the 1930 Beloit College/Logan Museum archaeological expedition to northern Algeria led by Alonzo Pond. Footage includes: the departure from Washington, D.C., and shipboard activities on the USS France; passage through the Straits of Gibraltar; street scenes in Canrobert, Algeria; excavations at dig sites with Arab workers; Roman ruins at Kramica and Timgad; Arab women washing clothes and drawing well water; the oasis and town of El Kantara at the mouth of the Sahara; Arabs on camelback near Biskra; scenes in Arab bazaar, French funeral with a horsedrawn hearse, and African (unidentified) street musicians in Biskra; street scenes in Paris; the return to New York on the USS Leviathan; and scenes in Chicago.
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The Beloit College and Alonzo and Dorothy Pond collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Film footage shot by George Waite on the 1930 Beloit College-Logan Museum archaeological expedition to northeastern Algeria. Film footage includes: street scenes in Kasbah, Algiers; market scenes at Ain Beida; nomad caravans and Arabs on horseback demonstrating riding skills; the oasis of El Kantara; the native quarters of Biskra and Chauoui; Chauoui Berber women grinding grain, milking sheep, churning butter in a goat skin, and making pottery; and Kabylie Berber men and women engaged in various domestic, agricultural, and craft activities. Also included are various scenes of archaeological excavations and camp life. Reels 1-5 are thought to be Alonzo Pond's lecture prints. Reels 6-11 are camera originals. Reel 12 is workprint trims from Pond's lecture film.
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1 Film reel (original black-and-white silent reversal; 400 feet, 16mm)
Container:
Item 1982.5.6
Type:
Archival materials
Moving Images
Film reels
Date:
1929
Scope and Contents:
Film footage shot of the Beloit College-Logan Museum archaeological expeditions to Algeria documents Berber pastoralism and animal husbandry of sheep with related activities including milking sheep, making butter in goatskin bag, harvesting wheat, grinding wheat for making couscous, and carding, spinning, and weaving wool. Activities take place in front of nomadic and sedentary dwellings.
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Includes a letter from Henry B. Collins and anthropometric tables.
See Series 9: Alaska Archaeological Expeditions for additional correspondence on the Alaska expeditions.
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Aleš Hrdlička papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Collection descriptions
Archival materials
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North Dakota -- Archeology
South Dakota -- Archeology
Great Plains
Honduras -- Archeology
Labrador (N.L.)
Nebraska -- Archeology
Columbia River Valley
Date:
1902-1965
bulk 1927-1955
Summary:
William Duncan Strong's early interest was in zoology, but, while an undergraduate at the University of California, he was brought into anthropology under the influence of Alfred Louis Kroeber. He conducted archaeological and ethnological field research in several areas of the New World and was the first professionally trained archaeologist to focus on the Great Plains, where he applied the so-called direct historical method, working from known history in interpreting archaeological sites. Strong's papers include correspondence, field notes, diaries, newspaper clippings, teaching notes and student papers, manuscripts of his writings, writings by other authors, papers from the various organizations in which he served, maps, and a considerable number of photographs from his field work. The materials date from 1902 to 1965, with most of the materials being from 1927 to 1955.
Scope and Contents:
Strong's papers include correspondence, field notes, diaries, newspaper clippings, teaching notes and student papers, manuscripts of his writings, writings by other authors, papers from the various organizations in which he served, maps, and a considerable number of photographs from his field work. The materials date from 1902 to 1965, with most of the materials being from 1927 to 1955.
Strong's papers reflect his professional life, but there is little personal material. Except for the Rawson-MacMillan Labrador Expedition, there is little information from Strong's years at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. Other than information on field work expenses, there is little light shed on Strong's personal financial situation. There is no personal correspondence with either of his wives and little correspondence with family members, except for his brother, Ronald. Some correspondence from the late 1930s to the early 1940s is not present and its whereabouts is not known. Of special interest is a collection of drawings by Naskapi Indian children collected while Strong was on the Labrador expedition in 1928. Strong collected obituaries, vitae, news articles, and writings on and by other anthropologists. He was an inveterate doodler, and his fascinating creations appear throughout the papers.
Strong also collected materials from other researchers, including Loren Eiseley's 1931 field notes from the Morrill Expedition, Maurice Kirby's 1932 notes on the Signal Butte excavations, notes and drawings from the 1936 Honduras expedition by Alfred V. Kidder II, and the field notebooks kept by Clifford Evans for the 1946 Virú Valley expedition in Peru. Contributed photographs from field expeditions are from A.T. Hill, Waldo Wedel, and John Champe.
Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or National Anthropological Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Arrangement:
The collection is arranged in 12 series: (1) Miscellaneous personal papers, 1914-1963; (2) Correspondence, 1922-1965; (3) Materials relating to field work, 1921-1963; (4) Miscellaneous research notes, 1917-1960, most undated; (5) Maps and charts, 1902-1949; (6) Drawings by Naskapi Indians and Eskimos, 1910, 1928; (7) Manuscripts of writings, 1922-1962, undated; (8) Writings by other authors, 1902-1961; (9) Papers relating to organizations, 1926-1961; (10) Teaching materials and course work, 1909, 1928-1961; (11) Miscellany, 1902-1961, most undated; (12) Photographs, 1913-1950.
Biographical Note:
William Duncan Strong (1899-1962) was a major figure in American anthropology. His accomplishments were as a field worker in archaeology and ethnology, archaeological theorist, writer, and teacher. He was, furthermore, a leader in anthropological organizations. In 1954, his position in the field was recognized by the award of the Viking Fund Medal for his contributions to archaeology.
William Duncan Strong's early interest was in zoology, but, while an undergraduate at the University of California, he was brought into anthropology under the influence of Alfred Louis Kroeber. He conducted archaeological and ethnological field research in several areas of the New World, including Labrador, southern California, Honduras, and Peru. Strong was the first professionally trained archaeologist to focus on the Great Plains, and it was there that he applied the so-called direct historical method, working from known history in interpreting archaeological sites. His work in all these areas are represented by notebooks, diaries, specimen catalogues, maps, and photographs.
Strong spent the majority of his professional life affiliated with various universities and taught many anthropologists who became influential in their own right. His students included Loren Eiseley, Waldo R. Wedel, Joseph Jablow, Oscar Lewis, John Landgraf, Dorothy Keur, David Stout, Charles Wagley, Eleanor Leacock, John Champe, Albert C. Spaulding, Victor Barnouw, John M. Corbett, Walter Fairservis, and Richard B. Woodbury. Strong preserved the student papers by some of these anthropologists as well as their correspondence with him.
Strong influenced American anthropology by his service in professional societies. He served as president of the American Ethnological Society, the Institute of Andean Research, and the Society for American Archaeology. He was the director of the Ethnogeographic Board (his journal from his tenure as director is in the papers) and chairman of the Committee on Basic Needs of American Archaeology. In this latter capacity, Strong was involved in establishing a program to salvage archaeological sites before they were destroyed by public works. Strong served as the anthropological consultant to the Bureau of Indian Affairs during Franklin Roosevelt's administration and advised on new directions to be taken in Indian Service policy.
Strong died suddenly on January 29, 1962.
Chronology
1899 -- Born January 30 in Portland, Oregon
1917 April-1919 January -- In the United States Navy aboard the U.S.S. South Dakota on convoy duty in the Atlantic Ocean
1922 -- Collected faunal specimens in the Canadian Rockies, Skeena River district, for the University of California Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
1923 -- A.B., University of California Studied Max Uhle's Peruvian archaeological collection Collected faunal specimens, Columbia River, Washington
Winter, 1923-1924 -- Archaeological investigations in the southern San Joaquin Valley, California under the direction of Edwin Winslow Gifford
1924-1925 -- Expedition to study Shoshonean tribes (the Serrano, Cahuilla, Cupeño, and Luiseño) of Southern California (Riverside and San Diego counties) under Alfred Louis Kroeber Archaeological surveys and excavations of three months each in the middle Columbia River Valley in Oregon and Washington
1925 -- Archaeological expedition and collection of faunal specimens in the San Pedro Martir Mountains, Baja California under W. Egbert Schenk
1925-1926 -- Research Assistant, Department of Anthropology, University of California
1926 -- PhD, Anthropology, University of California
1926 July-1929 August -- Assistant Curator of North American Ethnology and Archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
1927 -- An Analysis of Southwestern Society (doctoral dissertation)
1927 June-1928 September -- Anthropologist on the Rawson-MacMillan September, 1928 Subarctic Expedition of the Field Museum Studied Naskapi and Eskimos in Labrador and on Baffin Island
1929 -- Married Jean Stevens
1929 August-1931 July -- Professor of Anthropology, University of Nebraska
1929 -- Published The Aboriginal Society of Southern California
1929-1931 -- Director, Archaeological Survey of Nebraska, University of Nebraska
1930 June 11-September 6 -- Excavated at Rock Bluff cemetery site
1931 -- Helped organize the First Plains Conference (held August 31-September 2)
1931-1932 -- Morrill Expedition, central and western Nebraska and North and South Dakota: ethnological investigations of Arikaras at Nishu, North Dakota; excavation at Signal Butte, Nebraska; and excavation at Leavenworth and Rygh village sites in South Dakota
1931 July-1937 August -- Senior Anthropologist, Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution
1932 -- Archaeological survey of northeastern Honduras along the Mosquito Coast and the Patuca River, archaeological work on the Bay Islands, and ethnological investigation of Sumu Indians
1933-1934 -- Two Civilian Works Administration archaeological expeditions (five months each) in California in southern San Joaquin Valley, Kern County, at Tulamniu (a Yokuts village) and eastern Chumash area
1934-1937 -- Trustee, Laboratory of Anthropology, Sante Fe
1935 -- Anthropological consultant to the Bureau of Indian Affairs Assistant editor, American Antiquity Published Archeological Investigations in the Bay islands, Spanish Honduras and An Introduction to Nebraska Archeology
1935-1937 -- Member, Committee on State Archeological Surveys, National Research Council
1936 -- Smithsonian Institution-Harvard expedition to northwestern Honduras to the valleys of the Chamelecon and the Ulua Rivers, Naco and other sites
1937-1962 -- Professor, later Chairman, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University
1937-1938 -- Vice-President, American Anthropological Association
1938 -- Fort Abraham Lincoln (Slant Mandan village) site and Sheyenne-Cheyenne village site excavations in North Dakota
1939 -- Chairman, National Research Council's Committee on Basic Needs in American Archaeology Excavated at Arzberger site in South Dakota and the area between the Chamberlain and Cheyenne Rivers
1940 -- Member, National Research Council's Committee on War Services of Anthropology Expeditions to western Florida and southwestern United States, especially New Mexico Peruvian archaeological survey
1941 -- Chairman, Section H, American Association for the Advancement of Science
1941-1942 -- President, American Ethnological Society Peruvian excavations at Pachacamac in the Chancay Valley and the Ancon-Supe excavations
1942? -- Peruvian excavations in the Naxca and Ica Valleys
1942-1944 -- Director, Ethnogeographic Board
1943 -- Published Cross Sections of New World Prehistory Appointed to Loubat Professorship at Columbia University
1945 -- Married Helen Richardson
1946 -- Peruvian excavations, Virú Valley Project National Research Council liaison member of the Committee for the Recovery of Archaeological Remains President, Institute of Andean Research
1948-1949 -- Chairman, Anthropology Section of New York Academy of Sciences
1949 July-August -- Peru-Mexico trip
1950 -- Talking Crow site expedition Excavated at Signal Butte
1952-1953 -- Peruvian expeditions, Nazca and Ica Valleys
1954 -- Awarded the Viking Fund Medal Trip to western United States
1955-1956 -- President, Society for American Archaeology
1962 -- Died January 29
Selected Bibliography
1929 -- Strong, William Duncan. Aboriginal Society of Southern California. Vol. 26, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1929.
1935 -- Strong, William Duncan. Archeological Investigations in the Bay islands, Spanish Honduras. Washington: The Smithsonian Institution, 1935. Strong, William Duncan. An Introduction to Nebraska Archeology. Vol. 93, no. 10, Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Washington: The Smithsonian Institution, 1935.
1938 -- Strong, William Duncan, Alfred Kidder, II, and A.J. Drexel Pail, Jr. Preliminary Report on the Smithsonian Institution-Harvard University Archeological Expedition to Northwestern Honduras, 1936. Vol. 97, no. 1, Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Washington: The Smithsonian Institution, 1938.
1943 -- Strong, William Duncan. Cross Sections of New World Prehistory: a Brief Report on the Work of the Institute of Andean Research, 1941-1942. Vol. 104, no. 2, Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Washington: The Smithsonian Institution, 1943. Strong, William Duncan. Archeological Studies in Peru, 1941-1942. New York: Columbia University Press, 1943.
1948 -- "The Archeology of Honduras." In The Circum-Caribbean Tribes Vol. 4, Handbook of South American Indians, edited by Julian H. Steward, 71-120. Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin No. 143. Washington: U.S. Government Print Office, 1948.
1952 -- Strong, William Duncan, and Clifford Evans. Cultural Stratigraphy in the Virú Valley, Northern Peru. New York: Columbia University Press, 1952.
For a complete bibliography of Strong's works, see Solecki, Ralph, and Charles Wagley. "William Duncan Strong, 1899-1962," American Anthropologist 65, no. 5 (October 1963): 1102-1111. https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1525/aa.1963.65.5.02a00080
Related Materials:
Additional materials in the National Anthropological Archives relating to William Duncan Strong can be found in the records of the American Anthropological Association, Bureau of American Ethnology, Handbook of South American Indians, Institute of Social Anthropology, River Basin Surveys, the Society for American Archaeology, and Tulamniu Project (1933-1934); the papers of Ralph Leon Beals, John Peabody Harrington, Frederick Johnson, Frank Maryl Setzler, Ruth Schlossberg Landes, Albert Clanton Spaulding (including information on the Arzberger site), and Waldo Rudolph and Mildred Mott Wedel; Photographic Lot 14, Bureau of American Ethnology Subject and Geographic File; Photographic Lot 24, Bureau of American Ethnology-United States National Museum Photographs of American Indians; Photographic Lot 77-80, Portraits of Smithsonian Anthropologists; Photographic Lot 92-35, Ralph S. Solecki Photographs of Anthropologists; Numbered Collections, MS 4821 (records of the Anthropological Society of Washington), MS 4261 (photographs made on a site survey in the Santa Barbara Mountains, California, 1934), MS 4302 (journal covering the 1936 expedition to Honduras), MS 4846 (correspondence between BAE authors and the BAE editor's office), and MS 7200 (original field catalog of Honduran artifacts, 1936); and in the non-archival reference file. There are also materials in the Smithsonian Institution Archives in record units 87 (Ethnogeographic Board), 9528 (Henry Bascom Collins interviews), and 1050102 (papers of T. Wayland Vaughan). In the Human Studies Film Archives there is material on Strong in the video dialogues of Charles Wagley, 1983.
Provenance:
The Strong papers were donated to the archives by Strong's widow, Mrs. Helen Richardson Strong. Most of the arrangements were handled by Ralph S. Solecki, then of Columbia University. He sent the papers to the archives between 1974 and 1979, and there have been small accretions since that time. These accretions came through Richard G. Forbis, Department of Anthropology, University of Calgary; Mildred Mott Wedel and Waldo R. Wedel, Department of Anthropology; and Nan A. Rothschild, Department of Anthropology, Barnard College. Mrs. Strong donated the rights in the unpublished material in the collection to the Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution.
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Excavations (Archaeology) -- California Search this
- Original caption reads, "Samarra, Ashiq, numbered 10."
- Additional information reads, "Herzfeld was highly interested in metrology and spent considerable time obtaining exact measurements of the buildings he worked on. ... this assumption was confirmed by a meticulous measuring of the framed blind niches of the northwestern facade: while the height of the niche's frame was c. 6.40m, the space between the columns flanking this niche turned out to be 3.25m wide. The proportion 1:2 also repeat itself (10.24m) and its width (5.06m). The width of the columns reappeared as the width of the small arched field in the niche and in the surroundind concave molding." [Leisten, Thomas, 2003: "Excavation of Samarra, v. I. Architecture : Final report of the first campaign 1910-1912. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz am Rhein, 2003. p.109-110."]
Arrangement:
Drawings are arranged roughly in sequential number sequences, housed in document boxes or in flat file folders by size, and stored in the map case drawers.
Local Numbers:
D-1060
FSA A.06 05.1060
General:
- Title is provided by Xavier Courouble, FSg Archives cataloger, based on Thomas Leisten's publication, Excavation of Samarra, vol 1.
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Drawing related primarly to the archaeological expedition along the Euphrates and Tigris valleys, carried out by Ernst Herzfeld and Friedrich Sarre from October 1907 and March 1908 or the first campaign of excavation at Sāmarrāʼ (Iraq), carried out by Ernst Herzfeld on behalf of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin in 1911.
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Iraq -- Salah ad-Din -- Samarra -- Shiite Shrine Complex.
Date:
1907-1913
Scope and Contents:
Original caption reads, "Samarra, Mashhad Ali al-Hadi."
Arrangement:
Drawings are arranged roughly in sequential number sequences, housed in document boxes or in flat file folders by size, and stored in the map case drawers.
Local Numbers:
D-1062
FSA A.06 05.1062
General:
- Title is provided by Xavier Courouble, FSg Archives cataloger, based on Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive.
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Drawing related primarly to the archaeological expedition along the Euphrates and Tigris valleys, carried out by Ernst Herzfeld and Friedrich Sarre from October 1907 and March 1908 or the first campaign of excavation at Sāmarrāʼ (Iraq), carried out by Ernst Herzfeld on behalf of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin in 1911.
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Iraq -- Salah ad-Din -- Samarra -- Shiite Shrine Complex.
Date:
1907-1913
Scope and Contents:
Original caption reads, "Samarra, Mashhad Ali."
Arrangement:
Drawings are arranged roughly in sequential number sequences, housed in document boxes or in flat file folders by size, and stored in the map case drawers.
Local Numbers:
D-1063
FSA A.06 05.1063
General:
- Title is provided by Xavier Courouble, FSg Archives cataloger, based on Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive.
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Drawing related primarly to the archaeological expedition along the Euphrates and Tigris valleys, carried out by Ernst Herzfeld and Friedrich Sarre from October 1907 and March 1908 or the first campaign of excavation at Sāmarrāʼ (Iraq), carried out by Ernst Herzfeld on behalf of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin in 1911.
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Iraq -- Salah ad-Din -- Samarra -- Shiite Shrine Complex.
Date:
1908-1913
Scope and Contents:
- "The tenth and eleventh Imams of the Shi'ite faith, Ali al-Hadi and his son Hasan al-Askari were buried in their house on Abi Ahmad Street, near the mosque of Caliph al-Muta'sim. The shrine centered on their tombs was first developed in 944-45 by Hamdanid ruler Nasir al-Dawla, and by the succeeding Buyid dynasty. The town of Samarra subsequently gained importance as a center of pilgrimage. This holy shrine has been rebuilt multiple times, including two major renovations in 1053-54 by military leader Arslan al-Basasiri and in 1209-10 by Abbasid Caliph Al-Nasir li-Din Allah, who is commemorated by an inscription in the sirdab of the adjoining shrine of twelfth Imam, Muhammad al-Mahdi. In 1868-69, the shrine complex was renovated by Qajar ruler Nasir al-Din Shah." ["Samarra". The Encyclopedia of Islam. Leiden: E.J. Brill, VIII, p.1039-1041].
Arrangement:
- Drawings are arranged roughly in sequential number sequences, housed in document boxes or in flat file folders by size, and stored in the map case drawers.
- S-31 is organized into 32 subdivisions which include one or several items of original materials.
Local Numbers:
S-31:f
FSA A.06 07.31.06
General:
- Title is provided by Xavier Courouble, FSg Archives cataloger, based on Herzfeld's publication, "Geschichte der Stadt Samarra. Hamburg, Eckardt & Messtorff; Buchhändlerischer Vertrieb durch D. Reimer, Andrews & Steiner, Berlin, 1948," and Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive.
- Series title in Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive reads, "Records of Samarra Expeditions."
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Drawing related primarly to the archaeological expedition along the Euphrates and Tigris valleys, carried out by Ernst Herzfeld and Friedrich Sarre from October 1907 and March 1908 or the first campaign of excavation at Sāmarrāʼ (Iraq), carried out by Ernst Herzfeld on behalf of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin in 1911.
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1 Drawings (visual works) (color, 37 cm. x 24.7 cm.)
Container:
Item D-1013
Type:
Archival materials
Drawings (visual works)
Maps
Drawings
Place:
Asia
Iraq
Date:
1913-1914
Scope and Contents:
Original annotated caption in German reads, "Reisen von Ct. Aymar de Liedekerke-Beaufort, 1913-14. Copie."
Map of Lower Mesopotamia Including Archaeological Expedition Itinerary of Count de Liedekerke-Beaufort
Arrangement:
Drawings are arranged roughly in sequential number sequences, housed in document boxes or in flat file folders by size, and stored in the map case drawers.
Local Numbers:
D-1013
FSA A.06 05.1013
General:
- Title is provided by Xavier Courouble, FSg Archives cataloger.
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Collection Rights:
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Iraq -- Salah ad-Din -- Samarra -- Qubbat al-Sulaibiyya
Date:
1911-1913
Scope and Contents:
- Original caption reads, "Samarra, Qubbat al-Sulaibiyya."
- Additional information reads, "Visiting the site of Samarra in 1908, Sarre and Herzfeld had already become interested in the Qubbat al-Ṣulaibiyya. Herzfeld published preliminary measurements as well as a tentative interpretation of the building as the mausoleum of three of the caliphs of Samarra in 1911. During his absence at the end of June 1911, after some of his most skilled workmen from Ḥillah had begun to remove the debris in and around the building, Herzfeld returned to the Qubbat al-Ṣulaibiyya in the early days of December 1911. Between December 3 and 5, additional research was undertaken in the form of a deep sounding within the main chamber of the building that revealed three skeletons." [Leisten, Thomas, 2003: "Excavation of Samarra, v. I. Architecture : Final report of the first campaign 1910-1912. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz am Rhein, 2003. p.72."]
Excavation of Samarra (Iraq): Qubbat al-Sulaibiyya: Ground Plan and Section of the Octagonal Building [drawing]
Arrangement:
Drawings are arranged roughly in sequential number sequences, housed in document boxes or in flat file folders by size, and stored in the map case drawers.
Local Numbers:
D-1055
FSA A.06 05.1055
General:
- Title is provided by Xavier Courouble, FSg Archives cataloger, based on Thomas Leisten's publication, Excavation of Samarra, vol 1.
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Drawing related primarly to the archaeological expedition along the Euphrates and Tigris valleys, carried out by Ernst Herzfeld and Friedrich Sarre from October 1907 and March 1908 or the first campaign of excavation at Sāmarrāʼ (Iraq), carried out by Ernst Herzfeld on behalf of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin in 1911.
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Collection is open for research.
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Drawings are arranged roughly in sequential number sequences, housed in document boxes or in flat file folders by size, and stored in the map case drawers.
Local Numbers:
D-1056
FSA A.06 05.1056
General:
- Title is provided by Xavier Courouble, FSg Archives cataloger, based on Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive.
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Drawing related primarly to the archaeological expedition along the Euphrates and Tigris valleys, carried out by Ernst Herzfeld and Friedrich Sarre from October 1907 and March 1908 or the first campaign of excavation at Sāmarrāʼ (Iraq), carried out by Ernst Herzfeld on behalf of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin in 1911.
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
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Iraq -- Salah ad-Din -- Samarra -- Shiite Shrine Complex.
Date:
1907-1913
Scope and Contents:
Original caption reads, "Samarra, Ghaibat al-Mahdi, numbered 6."
Excavation of Samarra (Iraq): Shiite Shrine Complex, Ghaibat al-Mahdi: Ground Plan [drawing]
Arrangement:
Drawings are arranged roughly in sequential number sequences, housed in document boxes or in flat file folders by size, and stored in the map case drawers.
Local Numbers:
D-1057
FSA A.06 05.1057
General:
- Title is provided by Xavier Courouble, FSg Archives cataloger, based on Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive.
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Drawing related primarly to the archaeological expedition along the Euphrates and Tigris valleys, carried out by Ernst Herzfeld and Friedrich Sarre from October 1907 and March 1908 or the first campaign of excavation at Sāmarrāʼ (Iraq), carried out by Ernst Herzfeld on behalf of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin in 1911.
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Collection Rights:
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Iraq -- Salah ad-Din -- Samarra -- Shiite Shrine Complex.
Date:
1907-1913
Scope and Contents:
Original caption reads, "Samarra, numbered 4."
Excavation of Samarra (Iraq): Shiite Shrine Complex, Shrine of Imam al-Hadi and Shrine of Imam Al-Mahdi: Ground Plan [drawing]
Arrangement:
Drawings are arranged roughly in sequential number sequences, housed in document boxes or in flat file folders by size, and stored in the map case drawers.
Local Numbers:
D-1058
FSA A.06 05.1058
General:
- Title is provided by Xavier Courouble, FSg Archives cataloger, based on Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive.
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Drawing related primarly to the archaeological expedition along the Euphrates and Tigris valleys, carried out by Ernst Herzfeld and Friedrich Sarre from October 1907 and March 1908 or the first campaign of excavation at Sāmarrāʼ (Iraq), carried out by Ernst Herzfeld on behalf of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin in 1911.
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Collection is open for research.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
- Additional information reads, "Herzfeld was highly interested in metrology and spent considerable time obtaining exact measurements of the buildings he worked on. ... this assumption was confirmed by a meticulous measuring of the framed blind niches of the northwestern facade: while the height of the niche's frame was c. 6.40m, the space between the columns flanking this niche turned out to be 3.25m wide. The proportion 1:2 also repeat itself (10.24m) and its width (5.06m). The width of the columns reappeared as the width of the small arched field in the niche and in the surroundind concave molding." [Leisten, Thomas, 2003: "Excavation of Samarra, v. I. Architecture : Final report of the first campaign 1910-1912. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz am Rhein, 2003. p.109-110."]
Excavation of Samarra (Iraq): Qasr al-Ashiq, Three Blind Niches of the Northwestern Fac̦ade: Ground Plan and Elevation [drawing]
Arrangement:
Drawings are arranged roughly in sequential number sequences, housed in document boxes or in flat file folders by size, and stored in the map case drawers.
Local Numbers:
D-1059
FSA A.06 05.1059
General:
- Title is provided by Xavier Courouble, FSg Archives cataloger, based on Thomas Leisten's publication, Excavation of Samarra, vol 1.
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Drawing related primarly to the archaeological expedition along the Euphrates and Tigris valleys, carried out by Ernst Herzfeld and Friedrich Sarre from October 1907 and March 1908.
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
Iraq -- Salah ad-Din -- Samarra -- Shiite Shrine Complex.
Date:
1907-1913
Scope and Contents:
Original caption reads, "Samarra, Mashhad Ali al-Hadi."
Excavation of Samarra (Iraq): Shiite Shrine Complex, Shrine of Imam al-Hadi and Shrine of Imam Al-Mahdi: Sketch Plan [drawing]
Arrangement:
Drawings are arranged roughly in sequential number sequences, housed in document boxes or in flat file folders by size, and stored in the map case drawers.
Local Numbers:
D-1061
FSA A.06 05.1061
General:
- Title is provided by Xavier Courouble, FSg Archives cataloger, based on Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive.
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Drawing related primarly to the archaeological expedition along the Euphrates and Tigris valleys, carried out by Ernst Herzfeld and Friedrich Sarre from October 1907 and March 1908 or the first campaign of excavation at Sāmarrāʼ (Iraq), carried out by Ernst Herzfeld on behalf of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin in 1911.
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
Iraq -- Salah ad-Din -- Samarra -- Shiite Shrine Complex.
Date:
1907-1913
Scope and Contents:
Original caption reads, "Samarra, Ghaibat al-Mahdi."
Excavation of Samarra (Iraq): Shiite Shrine Complex, Ghaibat al-Mahdi: Section and Arabic Annotations [drawing]
Arrangement:
Drawings are arranged roughly in sequential number sequences, housed in document boxes or in flat file folders by size, and stored in the map case drawers.
Local Numbers:
D-1064
FSA A.06 05.1064
General:
- Title is provided by Xavier Courouble, FSg Archives cataloger, based on Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive.
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Drawing related primarly to the archaeological expedition along the Euphrates and Tigris valleys, carried out by Ernst Herzfeld and Friedrich Sarre from October 1907 and March 1908 or the first campaign of excavation at Sāmarrāʼ (Iraq), carried out by Ernst Herzfeld on behalf of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin in 1911.
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
Iraq -- Salah ad-Din -- Samarra -- Shiite Shrine Complex.
Date:
1907-1913
Scope and Contents:
Excavation of Samarra (Iraq): Shiite Shrine Complex, Shrine of Imam Al-Mahdi: Water-colored Plan [drawing]
Arrangement:
Drawings are arranged roughly in sequential number sequences, housed in document boxes or in flat file folders by size, and stored in the map case drawers.
Local Numbers:
D-1065
FSA A.06 05.1065
General:
- Title is provided by Xavier Courouble, FSg Archives cataloger, based on Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive.
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Drawing related primarly to the archaeological expedition along the Euphrates and Tigris valleys, carried out by Ernst Herzfeld and Friedrich Sarre from October 1907 and March 1908 or the first campaign of excavation at Sāmarrāʼ (Iraq), carried out by Ernst Herzfeld on behalf of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin in 1911.
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
Iraq -- Salah ad-Din -- Samarra -- Shiite Shrine Complex.
Date:
1907-1913
Scope and Contents:
Original caption reads, "Samarra, Mashhad Ali al-Hadi."
Excavation of Samarra (Iraq): Shiite Shrine Complex, Shrine of Imam al-Hadi: Water-colored Plan and Arabic Annotations [drawing]
Arrangement:
Drawings are arranged roughly in sequential number sequences, housed in document boxes or in flat file folders by size, and stored in the map case drawers.
Local Numbers:
D-1067
FSA A.06 05.1067
General:
- Title is provided by Xavier Courouble, FSg Archives cataloger, based on Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive.
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Drawing related primarly to the archaeological expedition along the Euphrates and Tigris valleys, carried out by Ernst Herzfeld and Friedrich Sarre from October 1907 and March 1908 or the first campaign of excavation at Sāmarrāʼ (Iraq), carried out by Ernst Herzfeld on behalf of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin in 1911.
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
