The Baroness Marie-Thérèse Ullens de Schooten collection at Harvard University : photographs, field recordings, and textual materials, 1927-1989, bulk 1951-1959
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The Baroness Marie-Thérèse Ullens de Schooten collection at Harvard University : photographs, field recordings, and textual materials, 1927-1989, bulk 1951-1959
Chiefly photographs, accompanied by field recordings, notebooks, lecture notes, scripts, and other papers, from the work and travels of Baroness Marie-Thérèse Ullens de Schooten during the course of her documentary filmmaking in Middle East locations, including Egypt and the Sudan (1927-1930, 1978), Iraq (1948), the Persian Gulf (1964), and Iran (1948-1970s). Most of her photographs were taken in Iran in the 1950s. The images document Iranian art and architecture, both ancient (Achaemenid) and Islamic, represented in monuments, historic sites, and art objects in museums and private collections; the life, music, oral literature, and migrations of Iran's nomads (Qashqā'ī, Bakhtiyārī, Kurds, and Turkmen); agricultural reform and forced settlement of the nomads under the Shah; pilgrimages to Mashhad and dervish rituals; recitals of traditional Iranian music and poetry; fishing and duck hunting on the Caspian Sea; and the work of the Pasteur Institute in fighting the plague in Kurdistan. The sound recordings, also mostly from the 1950s, include ethnographic music, film soundtracks, interviews with friends André and Yedda Godard, interviews with Iranian officials, the stories of Nizam Sultan Khadjenouri, and a series of interviews with the Baroness made shortly before her death in September 1989. Forms part of the Harvard Semitic Museum photographic archives.
ArchivalResource:
4,607 slides : color ; 35 mm. 2,272 negatives : film, 70 color ; 12 x 9 cm or smaller. 1,862 photographic prints : 67 color ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller. 62 transparencies : film, color ; 6 x 6 cm and 16 mm. 182 film reels : sound, b&w and color ; 16 mm. 149 sound tape reels and sound cassettes : analog. And, 9 boxes of textual materials.
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