Carl Tilden Keller collection concerning Sir Aurel Stein, 1922-1945.

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Carl Tilden Keller collection concerning Sir Aurel Stein, 1922-1945.

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Papers include correspondence between Keller and Stein and among Keller's circle of friends who were scholars or patrons also interested in Stein's archaeological expeditions. Some correspondence pertains to Stein's 1929 series of lectures given at the Lowell Institute. In January of 1930, Harvard University (cooperatively via Harvard's Fogg Art Museum and the Harvard Yenching Institute) agreed to financially back Stein as an independent contractor for his explorations into Chinese Turkestan (Central Asia). They also agreed to allow the cooperation of the British Museum. Series II of this collection reflects Harvard's involvement with Stein and also includes Stein's correspondence with British, Chinese, and American officials, related to Stein's political situation in China. There is correspondence between Keller and other Bostonians connected to Harvard, especially including Paul J. (Paul Joseph) Sachs. There are copies of official reports, telegrams, payroll records, and memorandum that detail the events that led to Stein abandoning his expedition in Chinese Turkestan (Central Asia). Included are financial records related to costs of the expedition and information regarding Harvard funding, as well as clippings and reprints by and about Stein. Many of Stein's autograph letters are poor, faint, and fragile carbon copies, and many documents and letters of others are not original, but are typescript, and occasionally manuscript, transcripts.

1 box (1.5 linear ft.)

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Sachs, Paul J. (Paul Joseph), 1878-1965

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Harvard Professor of Museology. From the description of Lecture notes and related manuscripts, 1926-1955. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 80369439 Professor of fine arts. From the description of Reminiscences of Paul Joseph Sachs : oral history, 1958. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309726511 Paul Joseph Sachs, the first associate director of the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University and a Harvard profes...

Harvard-Yenching Institute

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The Harvard-Yenching Institute, incorporated in Massachusetts in 1928, is a foundation with the purpose of developing instruction, research and publication in Chinese and other Asian studies. From the description of Records of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, 1929-1956 (inclusive) (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972709 ...

Fogg Art Museum.

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The Index of American Design was a project of the research division of the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration which produced approximately 20,000 reproductions (photographs and original drawings) and classifications of a wide variety of American art, paintings, sculptures, handicrafts, and folk art. From the description of Records relating to Index of American Design Exhibition, 1937. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122404372 Founded in 1891, through the...

Stein, Aurel, Sir, 1862-1943.

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Sir Aurel Stein was a Hungarian-born scholar and explorer of the Orient, chiefly in the service of the British Empire. On several archaeological expeditions to Central Asia, his findings and observations coupled with the hoards of documents and art objects he appropriated significantly enhanced Western understanding of the area. From the description of Aurel Stein letters to Mr. Colles, 1911. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 51651718 ...

British Museum.

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Microfilms of British Museum class catalogues of manuscripts. The British Library, established in 1973, is now responsible for manuscript collections previously held by the library of the British Museum. From the guide to the Microfilms of British Museum class catalogues of manuscripts, 20th century, (University of Oxford, Bodleian Library) ...

Keller, Carl Tilden, 1872-1955.

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Carl Tilden Keller (1872-1955) was a Harvard College graduate (AB 1894), an accountant, partner with Lybrand, Ross Bros. & Montgomery in Boston, and a book collector. In 1898 he married Marian Mandell Keller (d.1954). He was a vice chairman and trustee of the Harvard Yenching Institute. As a collector of rare materials, Keller was especially known for collecting rare editions of Cervantes' Don Quixote and for attempting to obtain translations of Don Quixote in all major languages of the worl...