Early photographs of Greece collection, ca. 1852-1920.

ArchivalResource

Beer, Alois, 1840-1916,. Early photographs of Greece collection, ca. 1852-1920.

Early photographs of Greece collection, ca. 1852-1920.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84433438

Consists of an open collection for general photographs of sites and subjects in Greece. Included are three photographs (each 6 x 8.5") that form a panorama of Athens ca. 1880, an 1852 photograph (calotype) of the Parthenon attributed to Eugène Jean Baptiste Piot (1812-1890), six black and white photographs of Mount Athos, ca. 1920, by Frederic Boissonnas (b. 1858), one photograph of a Corfu scene and a three-part panorama of Corfu by Alois Beer, and others by unidentified photographers (of the Parthenon, great theater of Herod, the Acroplis, Temple of Jupiter, Theseus Temple, Temple of Nike). There is also a group of seven photographs showing French soldiers on the Acropolis in 1917, and four that show Wold War I scenes of British soldiers in Thessaloniki. [See also specific photgrapher collections for more photographs of Greece.]

1.4 linear ft. (1 17 x 21 print box)

Princeton University Library