Sir William Moir Calder (American Society for Archaeological Research in Asia Minor) papers This deposit contains documents relating to the fieldwork carried out by Calder and his colleagues mainly under the auspices of the American Society for Archaeological Research in Asia Minor between 1924 and 1954. These include diaries, field notebooks and research drafts, correspondence, photographs (both prints and negatives), maps and squeezes. Calder's diaries of the various expeditions, which mainly record preparations, travel, meetings with other scholars and travellers, background information and notes on local customs in Turkey. The field notebooks mainly record and transcribe the inscriptions found, with reference numbers to photographs and squeezes and in some cases to publication numbers; while there are various notes and drafts produced by Calder in the process of assessing the material and preparing it for publication, together with correspondence with Ramsay and other scholars on the interpretation of some of the incriptions. The inscriptions themselves are recorded in impressions or squeezes and in photographs as well as by the transcriptions in the notebooks. There is also a large collection of maps of Asia Minor and surrounding areas; many rf these are annotated to record find spots, local vegetation or mineral deposits and the like, while some are original hand-drawn maps prepared for the publication of Monumenta Asiae Minoris Antiqua (MAMA). While most of this material was subsequently published in MAMA, some of the inscriptions wre published elsewhere and some are believed to be unpublished. . In addition to the MAMA material, the collection also includes squeezes and other material from Cyprus and other sites, and squeezes and related material evidently collected by Calder himself between 1908 and 1913, prior to his involvement with the MAMA project; much but not all of this material was later published in MAMA. The photographic collection is mainly of inscribed stones, but also includes images of countryside, towns and people, many depicting the political unrest in Asia Minor at this time, as well as members of the various expeditions. There is also a great deal of incidental information about the area, its customs and people contained in the diaries and correspondence. The collection also includes a small number of Calder's personal papers, photographs and correspondence unrelated to his epigraphical interests. Transcription: as the catalogue does not accept input in the Greek or Turkish alphabets, place names and quoted inscriptions are entered in roman characters and without most diacritics. 1901-1959