Director of Visual Resources Julia Gearhart holds up a photograph from the collection to the 2024 PITHOS cohort.
Visual Resources staff were pleased to welcome the PITHOS fellows on October 1. Thanks is due to Dora Ching, Executive Director of the Tang Center, for allowing us to use the Tang Seminar room which provided enough table space to display a good selection of fascinating material from the archive. As the cohort did last year, the PITHOS group brought great insights and questions!
VR Orientation Lunch 9-23
Thank you to those who attended our VR lunch/orientation on September 23! For those who missed it, if you're curious about services please reach out to [email protected] directly, we are happy to help you.
Butler Archive drawings examined in Art 407
Students examine the Howard Crosby Butler collection in Prof. Sam Holzman's class Drawing Archaeology (ART 407)
Students in Prof. Sam Holzman’s class, Drawing Archaeology (ART 407) got to explore the different kinds of drawings made by Howard Crosby Butler during the course of his expeditions through Syria. Each group of two students chose a different site to examine (such as Bosra, Si, Kasr ibn-Warden and Amman) and inspected both his small rough sketches and polished final publication drawings. We have most of the drawings online in the new digital collections website but are still working on relating the expedition notebook pages to the drawings and their geographic locations. Stay tuned for when that is accomplished, because the result will be amazing!
International Archaeology Day collaboration with Princeton Public Library
Cover of coloring booklet for International Archaeology Day project Color the Past: Archaeology at Princeton (designed by Yichin Chen)
For the second year in a row VR has collaborated with the Princeton Public Library and the Princeton Society of the Archaeological Institute of America to celebrate International Archaeology Day. What began last year as single coloring pages has this year been consolidated into a small booklet that also highlights the history of archaeology at Princeton. It is both informative and lovely thanks to the graphic design skills of VR staff member Yichin Chen. While the coloring book and pencil sets have been enthusiastically received by children at the public library we also placed some in campus departments where they have been enjoyed by the young at heart as well; if you can’t track one down just come to 2-N-⅞ where we have some extras. This project is funded in part by a grant from AIA.
Print ID workshop for ART 593
Students and instructor Paul Messier (third from right) in Prof. Bravo's course Photography Theory (Art 593) examine historic photographs from the Visual Resources collection.
Senior Image Collections Specialist Michele Mazeris dug into all corners of the historic photographs collection to find representative examples of types of photographic prints for Prof. Monica Bravo’s class Photography Theory (Art 593) featuring special lecturer Paul Messier, the founder and Pritzker Director of the Lens Media Lab at Yale’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage. Again utilizing the Tang Seminar Room, Michele covered the tables with everything from stereoscopic pictures to cyanotypes for a print identification workshop that was informative for students but also very beneficial to VR staff, thank you Prof. Bravo!