Father Carney Gavin legacy collection of Holy Land photographs
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the records consists of six collections: portfolios of albumen prints of street scenes and buildings of Cairo assembled by Arthur Rhoné, author of an early French guidebook for Egypt; modern platinum and silver gelatin prints of Jerusalem, created by photographer John Barnier in the early 1990s from original collodion wet plate negatives of Diness; photograph albums and prints of Egypt, Syria, and Palestine, collected by physician Ralph C. Marcove; cartes-de-visite owned by Catherine C. Haynes, a teacher at Robert College in Istanbul in the 1870s; albumen prints of Mecca and Medina by Muḥammad Ṣādiq Bey, an Egyptian army engineer; and photograph albums and prints assembled by Mathilde Pfeiffer, wife of archaeologist Robert Pfeiffer, showing Harvard University-Baghdad School excavations in Kirkuk, Iraq, and the couple's travels in Egypt, Palestine, and Greece in the 1920s. The Pfeiffer collection also contains film reels of the Holy Land, Baalbek, and Kirkuk, and Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Also included are Ermete Pierotti's Jerusalem explored, two portfolios containing photographs of Mecca and Medina by al-Sayyid 'Abd al-Ghaffār, glass lantern slides depicting the Middle East, the Americas, and Europe, and professional papers of Carney Gavin, as well as film of the Kirkuk excavation, shot by Fogg Art Museum archaeologist Richard F. S. Starr in 1929, and film of travel to Egypt and Palestine in the 1920s.
Dates
- 1820-2013
- Majority of material found within 1860-1993
Creator
- Gavin, Carney E. S. (Collector)
Language of Materials
Conditions Governing Access
Boxes 55-63 (computer media): Restricted fragile material. Access copies of digital files may be requested. Consult Access Services for further information.
Boxes 64-68 (audiovisual material): Restricted fragile material. Reference copies may be requested. Consult Access Services for further information.
Conditions Governing Use
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Arrangement
Extent
67.40 Linear Feet ((79 boxes) + 1 broadside)
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Overview
Carney E. S. Gavin (1939-2014)
Processing Information
Information included in the Description of Papers note and Collection Contents section is drawn from information supplied with the collection and from an initial survey of the contents. Folder titles appearing in the contents list below are are based on those provided by the creators or previous custodians. Titles have not been verified against the contents of the folders in all cases. Otherwise, folder titles are supplied by staff during initial processing.
This finding aid may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.
- Abdullah frères
- Adelphoi Zangaki (Firm)
- Albumen prints
- American School of Oriental Research in Baghdad
- Archives for Historical Documentation (Brighton, Boston, Mass.)
- Audiovisual materials
- Barnier, John
- Cabinet photographs
- Cartes-de-visite (card photographs)
- Children -- Middle East -- Pictorial works
- Christian shrines -- Israel -- Pictorial works
- Christian shrines -- Palestine -- Pictorial works
- Diness, M. J. (Mendel John)
- Egypt -- Antiquities
- Egypt -- Pictorial works
- Excavations (Archaeology) -- Iraq
- Frith, Francis
- Gavin, Carney E. S.
- Gelatin silver prints
- Greece -- Pictorial works
- Harvard Semitic Museum
- Haynes, Catherine C.
- Islamic architecture
- Jerusalem -- Antiquities
- Jerusalem -- Description and travel
- Jerusalem -- Pictorial works
- Jordan -- Pictorial works
- Lantern slides
- Lebanon -- Pictorial works
- Lekegian, G., active 1880-approximately 1920
- Maison Bonfils (Beirut, Lebanon)
- Marcove, Ralph C.
- Mecca (Saudi Arabia) -- Pictorial works
- Medina (Saudi Arabia) -- Pictorial works
- Middle East -- Antiquities
- Middle East -- Description and travel
- Middle East -- Pictorial works
- Missionaries -- Turkey
- Mosques -- Egypt -- Pictorial works
- Mosques -- Jerusalem -- Pictorial works
- Motion pictures (visual works)
- Museum curators -- United States -- 20th Century
- Palestine -- Antiquities
- Palestine -- Pictorial works
- Panoramas
- Pfeiffer, Mathilde, 1893-1988
- Pfeiffer, Robert H. (Robert Henry), 1892-1958
- Photographs
- Pierotti, Ermete
- Platinum prints
- Rhoné, Arthur, 1836-1910
- Robert College (Istanbul, Turkey)
- Sebah & Joaillier
- Starr, Richard F. S. (Richard Francis Strong), 1900-
- Synagogues -- Israel -- Pictorial works
- Syria -- Antiquities
- Syria -- Pictorial works
- Sébah, J. P. (Jean P.)
- Tombs & sepulchral monuments
- Travel photography
- Underwood & Underwood
- Women -- Middle East -- Pictorial works
- ʻAbd al-Ghaffār, al-Sayyid Aḥmad
- Ṣādiq, Muḥammad, 1822 or 1823-1902 or 1903
Creator
- Gavin, Carney E. S. (Collector)
- Title
- Guide to the Father Carney Gavin Legacy Collection of Holy Land Photographs
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- by Brooke McManus
- Date
- September 2021
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Part of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Repository
Location
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New Haven, CT 06511
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