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Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists of photographs of various sites, all produced by A. Henry Detweiler during his trips in Italy, Greece, Asia Minor and the Middle East. The photographs document the ancient architecture, landscape and archaeological surveying of these areas. Some of the images represent people and everyday life in the visited countries.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists of photographs of various sites, all produced by A. Henry Detweiler during his trips in Italy, Greece, Asia Minor and the Middle East. The photographs document the ancient architecture, landscape and archaeological surveying of these areas. Some of the images represent people and everyday life in the visited countries.

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...

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists of photographs of various sites, all produced by A. Henry Detweiler during his trips in Italy, Greece, Asia Minor and the Middle East. The photographs document the ancient architecture, landscape and archaeological surveying of these areas. Some of the images represent people and everyday life in the visited countries.