Stein Collection: Albums A.58-74. Middle Eastern tours. Photographer(s): Stein, Marc...

17 uniform soft covered brown or grey albums, each measuring 150 x 225 mm, containing a total of 383 prints (11 prints missing or not printed from numbered sequence 1-394) in aperture mounts measuring 98 x 73 mm. . The albums continue the 'A' sequence, covering A.58-74, and Stein has also gives this series a sequence in Roman numerals running from I-XVII. The volumes cover Stein's 1928-29 Middle Eastern journey, on which, on his retirement from Indian service, he travelled overland from Srinagar to Florence, visiting archaeological sites en route in Iraq, Syria, Jordan and Turkey, Cyprus, Greece and Yugoslavia. Each print has a typescript caption label pasted beneath the window mount, together with Stein's own negative number. By checking the corresponding reference in Stein's negative notebooks, dates are supplied for each photograph. A.58 Album I Prints 1-22 Covers period 2 November to 13 December 1928, photographs from Mohand Marg, Srinagar, Habibulla, Khorramshahr, Al Obaid, Eridu, Ur, Lagash, Senkereh, Warka, Ctesiphon. A.59 Album II Prints 23-46 Covers period 13 December 1928 to 9 January 1929, photographs from Ctesiphon, Baghdad, Babylon, Al Hillah, Kish, Al-Khubz, Eski-Baghdad. A.60 Album III Prints 47-70 9-16 January 1929, photographs from Eski-Baghdad, Samarra, Tarqulan, Kirkuk, Altin-kopru, Hatra. A.61 Album IV Prints 71-94 16-23 January 1929, photographs from Hatra, Gir Gaura, Ba'aji, Al-Ashik, Arbil, Nabi Yunus, Tel Afar, Sinjar. A.62 Album V Prints 95-118 23-31 January 1929, photographs from Sinjar, Jabal Sinjar, Sataiya, Haseche, Suwar, Dura Europus. A.63 Album VI Prints 119-142 31 January to 8 February 1929, photographs from Dura Europus, Palmyra. A.64 Album VII Prints 143-166 8-11 February 1929, photographs from Palmyra. A.74 Album VIII Prints 167-190 11-17 February 1929, photographs from Palmyra, Baniyas, Saida (Sidon), Sour (Tyre). A.65 Album IX Prints 191-214 17-27 February 1929, photographs from Sour (Sidon), Abu-Zirek, Beisan, Jarash. A.66 Album X Prints 215-238 28 February to 8 March 1929, photographs from Jarash, Amman, Anti-Lebanon, Baalbek, Kerak. A.67 Album XI Prints 239-261 8-12 March 1929, photographs from Kerak, Hamah, Haissa, Lafmira, Apamea, Kalat-al-Mudik. A.68 Album XII Prints 262-285 12-15 March 1929, photographs from Apamea, Kalat-al-Mudik, Mejdeleiya, Khirbet-al-Hass,Arbe'a, Serjilla, Al-Bara. A.69 Album XIII Prints 286-308 15-20 March 1929, photographs from Al-Bara, Dersanbil, Dalauzeh, Murayem, Jisr ash Shughur, Orontes valley, Antakya (Antioch), Daphne, Beit-el-Ma, Seleucia. A.70 Album XIV Prints 309-332 20-23 March 1929, photographs from Kasubieh, Seleucia, Suveidiyeh, Antakya (Antioch). A.71 Album XV Prints 333-356 23 March to 1 April 1929, photographs from Antakya (Antioch), Belen, Iskenderun (Alexandretta), Mersin, Famagusta, Salamis, Nicosia, Antalya, Rhodes, Athens. A.72 Album XVI Prints 357-380 1-16 April 1929, photographs from Athens, Corfu, Dubrovnik, Cavtat, Perast, Kotor, Solin, Orebic, Neum, Vrcgora, Zagvozd. A.73 Album XVII Prints 381-394 16-17 April 1929, and February 1929, photographs from Solin, Trogir, Sibenik, Palmyra (region), Bir al Marba'ah.

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