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Contents
Introduction
1Introduction to archaeological photography
Traveling through the Ancient and Classical World
2Photographers on the Grand Tour
3Karl Baedeker's Handbooks for Travellers
4Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey: The Ancient and Classical World
5Noël Marie Paymal Lerebours: Excursions daguerriennes : vues et monuments les plus remarquables du globe (1842)
6Louis de Clercq: Voyage en Orient (1860)
7Duc de Luynes: Voyage d'Exploration a la Mer Morte a Petra et sur la River Gauche du Jourdain (1868-74)
Asia
8Adolph Schaefer: The Buddhist monument at Borobudur in Central Java, Indonesia (1844-1845)
9Luigi Pesce: Archaeological sites of Persia (1850s)
10Gabriel Tranchard: The excavations of Victor Place at Khorsabad, Iraq (1850s)
11Richard Banner Oakeley: The Pagoda of Hallibeed (1859)
12Major [Robert] Gill & James Fergusson: One Hundred Stereoscopic Illustrations of Architecture and Natural History in Western India (1864)
13Pierre Tremaux: Exploration archéologique en Asie Mineure (1862-ca.1868)
14Émile Gsell: Cambodia: Angkor
15John Thomson: Cambodia: Angkor Thom / Angkor Wat (1866)
16John Thomson: The Antiquites of Cambodia (1867)
17Edmund David Lyon: Indian architecture (1860s-1860s)
18Alexander Svoboda: The Seven Churches of Asia (1869)
19John Henry Ravenshaw: Gaur; its Ruins and Inscriptions (1878)
20Thomas Biggs: Architecture at Ahmedabad, the Capital of Goozerat (1866)
21John Henry Haynes: Syria: Palmyra (1884)
22Lala Deen Dayal: Photographs for Sir Lepel Griffin "Famous Monuments of Central India" (1886)
23Turkestan Album: Archaeology in Central Asia (1871-1872)
24The Archaeological Survey of India
25Isidore van Kinsbergen: The archaeology of Java
26C.H. Graves: Boroebodor. Ruins of the world's greatest Buddhist temple, Java. (1902)
27Ernst Herzfeld (1879-1948) and others: Archaeology of the Middle East and work on Arabic Inscriptions
28Palestine: Megiddo: Aerial archaeological surveying with a balloon (1930s)
29Erich F. Schmidt: Flights Over Ancient Cities of Iran (taken 1935-1937, published 1940)
Central America
30John L. Stephens: Incidents of Travel in Yucatan (1843)
31Désiré Charnay: Cités et Ruines Americaines. Atlas (1863)
32Désiré Charnay: Mexico: Uxmal
33Désiré Charnay: Mexico: Mitla
34Désiré Charnay: Mexico: Chichen-Itza
35Dr. Augustus and Alice Le Plongeon: Archaeological research in Mexico (1870s)
36Alfred Percival Maudslay: Guatemala: Quiriguá
37Alfred Percival Maudslay: Mexico: Chiapas: Palenque
38Charles Betts Waite: Mexico: Mitla
39Teoberto Maler: Views of Aztec, Maya, and Zapotec ruins in Mexico
South America
40Arthur Posnansky: Archaeological remains at Tihuanaco, Bolivia (1903-1904)
North America
41Thomas Easterly: The Destruction of Big Mound (1853-1854)
42Massachusetts: Dighton Rock
Chile
43HMS Topaze and Easter Island, Chile (1868)
Peru
44Martin Chambi: Peru - Macchu Picchu
45Edward Ranney: Archaeological sites of Peru
Greece
46Greece: Athens: Acropolis: Parthenon
47Greece: Athens: Acropolis: Erechtheion
48Greece: Athens: Acropolis: Propylaia
49Greece: Athens: Temple of Olympian Zeus (Olympieion)
50Dmitri Constantine: Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens
51Alfred-Nicolas Normand: Greece
52Fred Boissonnas: Greece
Italy - Rome
53Italy: Rome: The Colosseum
54Italy: Rome: Arch of Constantine
55Italy: Rome: Forum Romanum
56Italy: Rome: Forum Traiani
57Robert Macpherson: The monuments of Rome
58Robert Macpherson: The statues of Rome
59James Anderson: The monuments of Rome and is surroundings
60John Henry Parker: Recent Excavations in Rome: Made in 1868
61John Henry Parker: Selections from Mr. Parker's Historical Photographs of Rome and Italy, arranged in systematic order, with prefaces to each subject (1879)
62Edmond Behles: Rome
Italy - Pompeii
63Italy: Pompeii
64John Shaw Smith: Pompeii
65Thomas H. Dyer: The Ruins of Pompeii. A Series of Eighteen Photographic Views (1867)
66Giorgio Sommer: Pompeii
67Jean Andrieu: Pompeii
68Michele Amodio: Pompeii
69Auguste Lesouëf: Pompeii (1880)
France
70Mission Héliographique
71France: Pont du Gard
England
72Philip Henry Delamotte: Illustrations of Roman mosaics assisted by Talbotype copying and reduction (1850)
73England: Stonehenge
74Major-General Sir Henry James R.E., F.R.S.: Plans and photographs of Stonehenge, and of Turusachan in the Isle of Lewes; with notes relating to the druids and sketches of cromlechs in Ireland (1867)
Egypt - Archaeological sites
75Egypt: The Pyramids of Giza
76Egypt: Climbing the Pyramids
77Charles Piazzi Smyth: Lantern slides and other photographs of Egypt
78Egypt: The Sphinx
79Egypt: Pyramid of Djoser (Zoser), Sakkarah (Saqqara)
80Egypt: Colossi of Memnon
81Egypt: Dendara
82Egypt: Edfou (Edfu)
83Egypt: Karnak
84Egypt: Kom Ombo
85Egypt: Luxor
86Egypt: Philae
87Egypt: Thebes
88Egypt: Thebes: Medinet Habu - Medinet Haboo (Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III)
89Egypt: Valley of the Kings
90Félix Teynard: Egypt and Nubia
91William de Wiveleslie Abney: Thebes and its Five Greater Temples (1876)
92H. Béchard: The Pyramids
93The Breasted Expeditions to Egypt and the Sudan (1905-1907)
94Photographing in the interior of the Great Temple at Abu Simbel (1906)
95Photographing the Temple of Amun and Amunhotep III at Soleb (1907)
96Charles Jacquin (French): Autochromes of Egyptian archaeological sites (ca 1912)
Egypt - Archaeological finds
97Egypt: Wall art, bas-relief, hieroglyphics and graffiti
98Egypt: Cleopatra's Needle
Egypt - Use of magnesium light
99Charles Piazzi Smyth: Use of magnesium light at the Great Pyramid (1865)
100Charles Piazzi Smyth: Photography, Magnesium, and the Pyramid (1865)
101Charles Piazzi Smyth: As soon as it was discovered that photography was possible by magnesium... (1865)
Israel and Palestine / The Holy Land
102George Skene Keith: Evidence of the Truth of the Christian Religion (1859)
103Auguste Salzmann: Jerusalem
104Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem
105Ordnance Survey of the Peninsula of Sinai
106American Palestine Exploration Society
107Palestine Exploration Fund
Archaeological excavations
108Archaeological excavations in progress
Epigraphy
109Epigraphy - Squeezes of inscriptions
Archaeological finds and museum displays
110Introduction to archaeological finds
111Délié & Béchard: Album du Musée Boulaq
112Emil Brugsch: La Trouvaille de Deir-El-Bahari
113Roger Fenton: The British Museum
114Stephen Thompson: British Museum
115Giorgio Sommer: The ash-covered remains from Pompeii
116John Edward Lee: Roman Imperial Photographs being a selection of forty enlarged Photographs of Roman Coins (1874)
117Underwood & Underwood: Classical and Renaissance sculptures
118Paris-Stereo: Vues d'Italie (1920)
Conclusions
119Conclusions on archaeology
Photographers
William de Wiveleslie Abney (1843-1920), Josef Albers, Alinari, George Allen (1891-1940), Michele Amodio, James Anderson (1813-1877), Konstantinos Athanasiou, Renato Bartoccini (1893-1963), O.S. Baudesson, Joseph David Beglar, Harry Charles Purvis Bell (1851-1937), Cecil Bendall (1856-1906), Dr. Theodor Bloch, Paul-Émile Botta (1805-1870), George Bridges (1788-1863), Marilyn Bridges (1948-), Giacomo Brogi (1822-1881), Emil Brugsch (1842-1930), James Burgess, Harry Burton (1879-1940), Edward Charles Buxton Jnr (1839-1925), Alexander Edwin Caddy (1846-1904), Leonida Caldesi (1823-1891), Henry Cammas (1813-1888), W. Caney, Désiré Charnay (1828-1915), Hurrichund Chintamon, Henry Hardy Cole (1843-1916), Dmitri Constantine, William Henry Cornish, Henry Cousens (1854-1933), François Joseph Edouard de Campigneules (1826-1879), Louis de Clercq (1836-1901), A. de Moustier, Emmanuel de Noailles (1830-1909), Délié & Béchard, P. Dittrich, Maxime Du Camp (1822-1894), Thomas Easterly (1809-1882), Alexander John Ellis (1814-1890), Beniamino Facchinelli (1839-1895), Emmanuel Forchhammer (1851-1890), C.G. Fountaine, Francis Frith (1822-1898), Henry Bailey Wade Garrick, Robert Gill, Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey (1804-1892), Victor Viktorovich Golubev (1878-1945), John Beasly Greene (1832-1856), Claude Grillet, Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gros (1793-1870), John Henry Haynes (1849-1910), Walter Hege (1893-1955), Konrad Helbig (1917-1986), John Robert Hogg (1838-1908), Hector Horeau (1801-1872), Leavitt Hunt (1831-1907), Mohammedani Ibrahim, Henry James (1803-1877), John Mounteney Jephson (1819-1865), Pierre-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière (1798-1865), Edward Kater (1816-1866), H.B. King (1830-1905), Jadu Kishen, Friedrich Koch, Edwin Max Konstam (1870-1956), Suprakash Ganguli Pindi Lal, Joseph Lawton, Alice D. Le Plongeon, Augustus Le Plongeon (1826-1908), Augustus & Alice D. Le Plongeon, Georges Albert Legrain (1865-1917), Edmund David Lyon (1825-1891), Peter Paul Mackey (1851-1935), Robert Macpherson, Giovanni Battista Maggi, Teoberto Maler (1842-1917), Philippos Margaritis (1810-1892), Alfred Percival Maudslay (1850-1931), V.G. Maunier, J. McCartney, James McDonald, Rajendra Lal Mitra, P. Moraites, Poorno Chander Mukherji, Henry Newton (1822-1900), Giuseppe Nicci, Alfred-Nicolas Normand (1822-1909), Norris, Richard Banner Oakeley, John Henry Parker, Luigi Pesce (1818-1891), H. Phillips, Edward Ranney, John Henry Ravenshaw (1833-1874), Alexander Rea (1858-1921), Rhomaides frères, James Robertson (1813-1888), Aimé Rochas, Rubellin, Luigi Sacchi (1805-1861), Auguste Salzmann (1824-1872), Major Sargeaunt, Henri Sauvaire, Adolph Schaefer, Horst Schliephack, Erich F. Schmidt (1897-1964), Lieutenant Philip Henry Sharpe, Carlo Baldassare Simelli (1811-1877), Charles Smeaton (1838-1868), Edmund William Smith (1858-1901), Giorgio Sommer (1834-1914), B.L. Spackman (1824-1879), John Alfred Spranger (1889-1968), William J. Stillman (1828-1901), Alexander Svoboda (1826-1896), David Harold Day Sykes, Félix Teynard (1817-1892), F. & E. Thévoz, Gabriel Tranchard, Pierre Tremaux (1818-1895), Linnaeus Tripe (1822-1902), Max Uhle (1856-1944), Isidore van Kinsbergen (1821-1905), Louis Vignes (1831-1896), Charles Betts Waite (1861-1929), Alfred Watkins (1855-1935), Panagos T. Zaphiropoulos
     
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Introduction
1Introduction to archaeological photography
Traveling through the Ancient and Classical World
2Photographers on the Grand Tour
3Karl Baedeker's Handbooks for Travellers
4Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey: The Ancient and Classical World
5Noël Marie Paymal Lerebours: Excursions daguerriennes : vues et monuments les plus remarquables du globe (1842)
6Louis de Clercq: Voyage en Orient (1860)
7Duc de Luynes: Voyage d'Exploration a la Mer Morte a Petra et sur la River Gauche du Jourdain (1868-74)
Asia
8Adolph Schaefer: The Buddhist monument at Borobudur in Central Java, Indonesia (1844-1845)
9Luigi Pesce: Archaeological sites of Persia (1850s)
10Gabriel Tranchard: The excavations of Victor Place at Khorsabad, Iraq (1850s)
11Richard Banner Oakeley: The Pagoda of Hallibeed (1859)
12Major [Robert] Gill & James Fergusson: One Hundred Stereoscopic Illustrations of Architecture and Natural History in Western India (1864)
13Pierre Tremaux: Exploration archéologique en Asie Mineure (1862-ca.1868)
14Émile Gsell: Cambodia: Angkor
15John Thomson: Cambodia: Angkor Thom / Angkor Wat (1866)
16John Thomson: The Antiquites of Cambodia (1867)
17Edmund David Lyon: Indian architecture (1860s-1860s)
18Alexander Svoboda: The Seven Churches of Asia (1869)
19John Henry Ravenshaw: Gaur; its Ruins and Inscriptions (1878)
20Thomas Biggs: Architecture at Ahmedabad, the Capital of Goozerat (1866)
21John Henry Haynes: Syria: Palmyra (1884)
22Lala Deen Dayal: Photographs for Sir Lepel Griffin "Famous Monuments of Central India" (1886)
23Turkestan Album: Archaeology in Central Asia (1871-1872)
24The Archaeological Survey of India
25Isidore van Kinsbergen: The archaeology of Java
26C.H. Graves: Boroebodor. Ruins of the world's greatest Buddhist temple, Java. (1902)
27Ernst Herzfeld (1879-1948) and others: Archaeology of the Middle East and work on Arabic Inscriptions
28Palestine: Megiddo: Aerial archaeological surveying with a balloon (1930s)
29Erich F. Schmidt: Flights Over Ancient Cities of Iran (taken 1935-1937, published 1940)
Central America
30John L. Stephens: Incidents of Travel in Yucatan (1843)
31Désiré Charnay: Cités et Ruines Americaines. Atlas (1863)
32Désiré Charnay: Mexico: Uxmal
33Désiré Charnay: Mexico: Mitla
34Désiré Charnay: Mexico: Chichen-Itza
35Dr. Augustus and Alice Le Plongeon: Archaeological research in Mexico (1870s)
36Alfred Percival Maudslay: Guatemala: Quiriguá
37Alfred Percival Maudslay: Mexico: Chiapas: Palenque
38Charles Betts Waite: Mexico: Mitla
39Teoberto Maler: Views of Aztec, Maya, and Zapotec ruins in Mexico
South America
40Arthur Posnansky: Archaeological remains at Tihuanaco, Bolivia (1903-1904)
North America
41Thomas Easterly: The Destruction of Big Mound (1853-1854)
42Massachusetts: Dighton Rock
Chile
43HMS Topaze and Easter Island, Chile (1868)
Peru
44Martin Chambi: Peru - Macchu Picchu
45Edward Ranney: Archaeological sites of Peru
Greece
46Greece: Athens: Acropolis: Parthenon
47Greece: Athens: Acropolis: Erechtheion
48Greece: Athens: Acropolis: Propylaia
49Greece: Athens: Temple of Olympian Zeus (Olympieion)
50Dmitri Constantine: Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens
51Alfred-Nicolas Normand: Greece
52Fred Boissonnas: Greece
Italy - Rome
53Italy: Rome: The Colosseum
54Italy: Rome: Arch of Constantine
55Italy: Rome: Forum Romanum
56Italy: Rome: Forum Traiani
57Robert Macpherson: The monuments of Rome
58Robert Macpherson: The statues of Rome
59James Anderson: The monuments of Rome and is surroundings
60John Henry Parker: Recent Excavations in Rome: Made in 1868
61John Henry Parker: Selections from Mr. Parker's Historical Photographs of Rome and Italy, arranged in systematic order, with prefaces to each subject (1879)
62Edmond Behles: Rome
Italy - Pompeii
63Italy: Pompeii
64John Shaw Smith: Pompeii
65Thomas H. Dyer: The Ruins of Pompeii. A Series of Eighteen Photographic Views (1867)
66Giorgio Sommer: Pompeii
67Jean Andrieu: Pompeii
68Michele Amodio: Pompeii
69Auguste Lesouëf: Pompeii (1880)
France
70Mission Héliographique
71France: Pont du Gard
England
72Philip Henry Delamotte: Illustrations of Roman mosaics assisted by Talbotype copying and reduction (1850)
73England: Stonehenge
74Major-General Sir Henry James R.E., F.R.S.: Plans and photographs of Stonehenge, and of Turusachan in the Isle of Lewes; with notes relating to the druids and sketches of cromlechs in Ireland (1867)
Egypt - Archaeological sites
75Egypt: The Pyramids of Giza
76Egypt: Climbing the Pyramids
77Charles Piazzi Smyth: Lantern slides and other photographs of Egypt
78Egypt: The Sphinx
79Egypt: Pyramid of Djoser (Zoser), Sakkarah (Saqqara)
80Egypt: Colossi of Memnon
81Egypt: Dendara
82Egypt: Edfou (Edfu)
83Egypt: Karnak
84Egypt: Kom Ombo
85Egypt: Luxor
86Egypt: Philae
87Egypt: Thebes
88Egypt: Thebes: Medinet Habu - Medinet Haboo (Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III)
89Egypt: Valley of the Kings
90Félix Teynard: Egypt and Nubia
91William de Wiveleslie Abney: Thebes and its Five Greater Temples (1876)
92H. Béchard: The Pyramids
93The Breasted Expeditions to Egypt and the Sudan (1905-1907)
94Photographing in the interior of the Great Temple at Abu Simbel (1906)
95Photographing the Temple of Amun and Amunhotep III at Soleb (1907)
96Charles Jacquin (French): Autochromes of Egyptian archaeological sites (ca 1912)
Egypt - Archaeological finds
97Egypt: Wall art, bas-relief, hieroglyphics and graffiti
98Egypt: Cleopatra's Needle
Egypt - Use of magnesium light
99Charles Piazzi Smyth: Use of magnesium light at the Great Pyramid (1865)
100Charles Piazzi Smyth: Photography, Magnesium, and the Pyramid (1865)
101Charles Piazzi Smyth: As soon as it was discovered that photography was possible by magnesium... (1865)
Israel and Palestine / The Holy Land
102George Skene Keith: Evidence of the Truth of the Christian Religion (1859)
103Auguste Salzmann: Jerusalem
104Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem
105Ordnance Survey of the Peninsula of Sinai
106American Palestine Exploration Society
107Palestine Exploration Fund
Archaeological excavations
108Archaeological excavations in progress
Epigraphy
109Epigraphy - Squeezes of inscriptions
Archaeological finds and museum displays
110Introduction to archaeological finds
111Délié & Béchard: Album du Musée Boulaq
112Emil Brugsch: La Trouvaille de Deir-El-Bahari
113Roger Fenton: The British Museum
114Stephen Thompson: British Museum
115Giorgio Sommer: The ash-covered remains from Pompeii
116John Edward Lee: Roman Imperial Photographs being a selection of forty enlarged Photographs of Roman Coins (1874)
117Underwood & Underwood: Classical and Renaissance sculptures
118Paris-Stereo: Vues d'Italie (1920)
Conclusions
119Conclusions on archaeology

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