Roman Forum (Rome, Italy)

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The goal was to provide high quality images of Rome, as few were available at the time. Of the thousands of photographs that Aronson and Millon took during the two flights, only 300 of the clearest images were selected for the publication of the Portfolio. Aronson published the Portfolio in 1979 through his company, Aerpicfoto, which at the time was located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The goal was to provide high quality images of Rome, as few were available at the time. Of the thousands of photographs that Aronson and Millon took during the two flights, only 300 of the clearest images were selected for the publication of the Portfolio. Aronson published the Portfolio in 1979 through his company, Aerpicfoto, which at the time was located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The goal was to provide high quality images of Rome, as few were available at the time. Of the thousands of photographs that Aronson and Millon took during the two flights, only 300 of the clearest images were selected for the publication of the Portfolio. Aronson published the Portfolio in 1979 through his company, Aerpicfoto, which at the time was located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection is composed of notes taken by Esther Van Deman during all her archaeological surveys and travel excavations in the Roman Forum between 1907 and 1929. It is a rare example of both a personal and a professional archive.

Abstract Esther Van Deman's work focuses on building materials, working to establish a chronology of construction for the ancient sites. In 1907, while attending a lecture in the Atrium Vestae in Rome, Van Deman noticed that the bricks blocking up a doorway differed from those of the structure itself. Such differences in building materials provided a key to discovering the chronology of ancient structures. Van Deman's basic methodology, with few modifications, became the standard procedure in Roman...