| Description | Large bundle of negatives and some prints. marked "MS 3286 Bundle 2 (JO 23/4/15)", containing several sub-bundles:
1. Brown envelope addressed to Professor Calder, 5, Derby Road, Withington, Manchester, postmarked London 15 March 1926 containing 5 negatives, mainly portraits of other researchers and local guides in Turkey with family members. Date c. 1920s. [According to a previous note, there were originally 6 negatives]
2. White envelope marked in pencil with previous reference 3286/9/2/viii on outside, contining negatives (12) and photographs (11) of various inscriptions and stone carvings, including print and three negatives of altar (?) with inscription beginning TEIMOTH
3. Note to Calder from J.R. Cullen, Manchester 28 February 1926, enclosing "the negatives of the only three stones I photo'd at Angora"; those negatives are no longer with the note. Together with a postcard from Cox, Athens 14 April 1924, telling Calder he has acquired a camera.
4 Large black and white photograph in poor condition of Greek inscription, marked 499 on back.
5. Large envelope with old reference "Ms 3286/9/2/iii - Assorted prints", containing:
— White envelope with 13 small sepia prints of inscribed stones. The first photograph has no. 242 on back in pencil, another has a pencil written note on back "Cameron's photo of Helen's [Greek word, ?latutôr] at Altyn Task, rather better than mine", and a third has "No. 247 alternative (Cameron)".
— Nine photographs of stones and inscriptions in tracing-paper wrapper. The prints are cut down as if for publication cut-down as if ready for publication and are numbered on reverse 230, 235, 237, 236, 238, 240, 243 and 244; one unnumbered. The bundle is wrapped in tracing paper. Also enclosed, a strip of paper with a handwritten description and interpretation of a stone numbered 41, with the heading "Chekouler station".
-— Three sepia prints showing two incomplete inscribed stones, one numbered 21 on the reverse.
— Letter from Richard Low to Calder, from Constantinople, undated, informing him of the suicide of Forbes Adam [possibly Eric Forbes Adam, who died in Constantinople on 7 July 1925]. Enclosed with it is a photograph and provisional transcription of a stone with an inscription in a non-Greek script
— Two prints of stones with Greek inscriptions
—Nine photographs of inscribed altars and other stones, all with ink notes on reverse in French giving details of the dedications, also numbers in pencil in Arabic.
6. Glass plate of tomos inscription, with note stating "not published in MAMA I - VIII" and old reference 3286/9/2.ii
7. Bundle of 14 plastic transparencies each showing several inscribed stones, with researcher's note "photographs of squeezes - ? all for MAMA I (Charlotte Rouché)" and old reference MS 3286/9/2.i
8. Photographic supplier's wallet ("Sinclair Services") containing 8 buff envelopes numbered 29 to 36, each containing negatives of one or more inscribed stones, with a print in some cases. Old reference MS 3286/0/2.iv
9. Kodak photographic wallet, marked "3 Angora (1)" in ink, containing six negatives of inscribed stones and five negatives showing two seated men. Old reference MS 3286/9/2.v.
10. Various envelopes containing photographs of scenery and local people: brown envelope marked "1926 & 1928" with two prints of landscape; folded cardboard containing envelope with Turkish (Arabic) inscription and photograph of mosque, cardboard is marked in pencil "23 illustrations for Part III (nos. 230 f.); envelope addressed to Calder in Manchester, postmarked Oxford 2 December 1928, with 10 small photographs pf Turkish scenes and people; together with several empty envelopes, pieces of cardboard etc. presumably once used to contain photographs. |