Details

Subject(s)

• Cretans—20th century—Photographs [Browse]
• Crete (Greece)—20th century—Photographs [Browse]
• Greece—Description and travel—20th century—Photographs [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Photograph albums—20th century [Browse]
• Photographs—20th century [Browse]

Compiled/​Created

1907.

Summary note

Photograph album containing 237 silver gelatin prints depicting various locations in Crete in the early 20th century. Photographs were taken at Chania, Halepa, Malaxa, the fortresses of Firka and Izzeddin, and other locations in Crete. Subjects include urban and rural scenes and people, boats, ports, lighthouses, cemeteries, mosques, houses and farms, pets and livestock, British, Italian, and Russian soldiers, police officers and military personnel of the Cretan State, and French diplomats. Though the photographer and collector are unidentified, the album is captioned throughout in French. The photographs range from 3.4 x 5.3 to 7.9 x 10.7 cm in size, and there are 4 to 16 photographs per page.

Binding note

Cloth binding.

Source acquisition

Purchased with matching funds provided by the Program in Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund in 2017. AM 2018-32.

OCLC

1370989683

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