- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Borri, Bartolomeo
- Title:
- Princeton University Library Collection of Bartolomeo Borri Photographs
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/gm80hv335
- Dates:
- 1890s
- Size:
- 3 boxes and 3.4 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Boxes 1; P-000203; P-000204
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Consists of an open collection of photographs mainly of Corfu Island and other places in Greece, by Bartolomeo Borri, including Athens, the Acropolis and its monuments and Piraeus.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
The collection is an open collection of photographs by Bartolomeo Borri.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Borri, Bartolomeo
Bartolomeo Borri was a photographer of Italian origin who was noted for his photographs of Greece, particularly Corfu, where he had a studio.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
Purchase from Krul Antiquarian Books, Bernard J. Shapero Rare Books, and Frattis Auctions in 2005-2012; Acquired with matching funds provided by the Program in Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund and Gift of the Program in Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund (AM2006-71, 2008-81, 2012-108; 2013-12; 2013-84; 2019-24; 2019-110).
- Appraisal
No materials were removed from the collection during 2018 processing beyond routine appraisal practices.
- Processing Information
Folder inventory added by Nicholas Williams '2015 in 2012.
This finding aid was updated by Kalliopi Balatsouka in October 2018. New items were processed and described by Kalliopi Balatsouka in 2020 and 2022.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
- Credit this material:
Princeton University Library Collection of Bartolomeo Borri Photographs; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/gm80hv335
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Boxes 1; P-000203; P-000204
Find More
- Subject Terms:
- Acropolis (Athens, Greece) -- Photographs.
- Genre Terms:
- Albumen prints -- 19th century.
Photographs -- Greece -- Corfu -- 19th century. - Places:
- Corfu Island (Greece) -- photographs
Parthenon (Athens, Greece) -- Photographs.
Lycabettus, Mount (Greece) -- Photographs.
Piraeus (Greece) -- Photographs.
Greece -- photographs
