Details

Subject(s)

• Monasteries—Greece—Athos—Photographs [Browse]
• Architecture, Byzantine—Greece—Athos—Photographs [Browse]
• Monastic and religious life—Greece—Athos—Photographs [Browse]
• Athos (Greece)—Photographs [Browse]
• Greece—Photographs [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Photographs [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Albumen prints—19th century [Browse]
• Photograph albums—20th century [Browse]

Compiled/​Created

1943.

Summary note

Photograph album containing 50 albumen prints (8.3 x 11.3 cm. the smaller) of Mount Athos. Included are general views of the monasteries, mostly exterior views; interiors of the monasteries; details of domes; a phiale; an arsanas; Byzantine watch towers; the tower of Kaliagras; many exterior views of the Simōnopetra monastery; the arsanas with its tower below Simōnopetra monastery; exterior vew of the Dionysiou monastery; several skētes; street scenes; a portrait of a monk; and images of the daily monastic life.

Notes

Titled based on contents

Binding note

MSS copy bound in brown paper with red leather spine and angles on hard board.

Language note

No captions.

Source acquisition

Purchase: Acquired with matching funds provided by the Program in Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund. Acc. no. 2010-88.

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