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Object Number
2022.2
Display Title
Hallam L. Movius, Jr. photographs and negatives
Descriptions
Archival Scope and Content
The collection comprises a series of photographic prints and photonegatives. The photographs document and depict HLM’s travels, research, personal expeditions, and excavations from approximately 1930 through the 1950s. The photographs were taken in Palestine (modern day Israel), Ireland, Myanmar (Burma), Malaysia, and Indonesia.
Department
Photographic
Archives
Archival Collection
Archival Inventory
Box 1
Palestine Negatives (1933)
Box 2
Palestine Negatives (1933) and Indonesia “Java” Negatives
Box 6
Palestine Expedition + Prints (1933)
“Pictures 1. General”
“Pictures 1. Skull”
“Pictures 2. General”
“Duplicates and Clippings”
Box 4
Ireland Negatives
“Larne”
“Ireland”
“HLM Ireland”
“Harvard Irish Expedition”
“Ballinderry 1933”
“Ballinderry”
“Knockast”
“Rathin Island 1933”
“Roll Film No.1 General”
“Roll Film No.2 Ballyglass (Personal)”
“Roll Film No.3 General”
1934 “Roll Film No. 4 Bally Castle (etc.) Ballintoy N. Coast”
Box 5
Ireland Negatives
“Roll Film No. 5 1934 Poulawach + General”
“No.1 Film Pack 1934 Ballyglass”
“No.2 Film Pack 1934 Ballyglass”
“No. 5 Film Pack 1934 Poulanouch”
“No. 6 Film Pack Poulawach”
“Kilgreany Cave Excavations” 1934
Dig South of Belfast where Granny and Gramp Met 1935”
“Ireland- 1936 + on the boat”
Box 3
South Asia Negatives
Malaysia 1937-1938
Rangoon “Shew Dagon
Malaysia “Burma Pagodas”
Malaysia “Irrawaddy Scenes”
Myanmar “Burma Mandalay Palace”
Myanmar “Burma Camp Scenes”
Myanmar “Taunggyi Lake Inle + S.S.S. Misc.”
10 Myanmar Negatives Unlabeled
Myanmar “Double Exposures”
Myanmar “Burma Misc. Camp Scenes = People etc.”
Myanmar “Burma Native Economy”
Box 7
Ireland and South Asia Prints
“Larne”
“Harvard Irish Expedition”
“Ireland”
“HLM Ireland”
“Ballinderry 1933”
“Knockast”
“Rathin Island 1933”
“Cushendun”
“Roll Film No.1 General”
“Roll Film No.2 Belly glass (Personal)”
“Roll Film No.3 General”
1934 “Roll Film No. 4 Bally Castle (etc.) Ballintoy N. Coast”
“Poulawach + General”
“Ballyglass No.1 Film Pack”
“No.2 Film Pack Bally Glass”
“Film Pack No.5 AGFA Film Poulwach”
“Film Pack No.6 Pernot Polawach”
“Kilgreany Cave Excavations”
“Dig South of Belfast, Where Granny and Gramp Met”
“(Burma) Camp Scenes
Rangoon Shew Dagon (Shwedagon)
“Burma Irrawaddy Scenes”
Burma Pagoda
“Burma Mandalay Palace”
“Burma Native Economy”
“Burma Krtyg Tung Trip”
“Burma Indawgyi; Inle Lake + S.S.S. Misc.”
“Burma Misc Scenes = People etc.”
Myanmar (Burma), Malaysia
“East Indies, 1938 – Fellow Anthropologists, Archeologists”
Indonesia “Sumatra-medan”
Misc. Indonesia
Java Postcards
Bali
“Boroboedoer” (Borobudur)
“Java” Indonesia
Rolled Panorama
Paper sleeve
1 print, written on back: “With many thanks for a most enjoyable day, Frances C. [?] / Bruce Howe”
Date
circa 1933-1960
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Indonesia
Asia / Burma
Europe / Ireland
Oceania / Malaysia
Asia / Israel
Asia / Burma
Europe / Ireland
Oceania / Malaysia
Asia / Israel
Quantity
1
Credit Line
Gift of the Movius family, 2022
Provenance
Donor
Donated by
Geoffrey Movius
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