Baroness Marie-Thérèse Ullens de Schooten archive [graphic]. 1927-1989, bulk 1951-1959.

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Ullens de Schooten, Marie-Thérèse, Baroness, 1905-1989,. Baroness Marie-Thérèse Ullens de Schooten archive [graphic].

Baroness Marie-Thérèse Ullens de Schooten archive [graphic]. 1927-1989, bulk 1951-1959.

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Chiefly photographs, accompanied by motion picture films, sound recordings, field notebooks, lecture notes, scripts, and other papers, documenting the work of Baroness Marie-Thérèse Ullens de Schooten during the course of her travel and documentary filmmaking in the Middle East. Locations for her films include Egypt and the Sudan (1927-1930, 1978), Iraq (1948), the Persian Gulf (1964), and Iran (1948-1970s). Most of her photographs and sound recordings were made in Iran in the 1950s. Sound recordings include ethnographic music, film soundtracks, interviews with her 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. Subjects include: 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, Turkmen, Bakhtiyārī, and Kurds); 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; the work of the Pasteur Institute in fighting the plague in Kurdistan. The archive also includes the Baroness's manuscripts and published copies of her books.

4,607 slides : col. ; 35 mm.2,299 negatives : film, 70 col. ; 12 x 9 cm. or smaller.1,134 photographic prints : 67 col. ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller.173 transparencies : film, col. ; 6 x 6 cm. and 16 mm.

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