"Record of 1937 Trip Taken by Donald Drew Egbert and Andrew Saeger Keck, Princeton, NJ" (PH.BZ.009) SITE COUNTRY DATE NO. DESCRIPTION ALBUM 1. Title Page: “Vol. I. New York 2/20 to Athens 4/23, including Egypt, Greece and Crete. Record of 1937 trip taken by Donald Drew Egbert and Andrew Saeger Keck, Princeton NJ,” with Exterior views of Belem Cloisters, street views. “First stop after the Azores (Ponta Delagada) on the M/V Saturnia from Lisbon Portugal 28 February 1937 6 New York 2/20.” Lisbon to Naples 29 February-03 2 Gibraltar, Palermo (S. Giovanni degli Eremiti). “Stops made also at Azores, Algiers, Palermo, and Naples.” Athens Greece 08-09 March 1937 4 "Acropolis and Parthenon from street level," Constitution Square, street views Rhodes Greece 10 March 1937 12 Harbor, Hospice of the Knights of Saint John, street views Aswan Egypt 13 March 1937 4 Temple of Philae submerged in water The Nile Egypt 13-16 March 1937 1 "Feluccas on the Nile taken from the deck of Thos. Cook steamer, the "Egypt" Edfu Egypt 14 March 1937 5 Temple (exterior and interior views) Dendera Egypt 20 March 1937 24 Irrigation system, mud-hut village, temple (interior and exterior views), Christian basilica Naquada Egypt 20 March 1937 4 [Naqada], "near Dendera." Structures, car. Sohag Egypt 21 March 1937 13 Structures (interior and exterior views), people, wall painting outside the White Convent Sakkara Egypt 23 March 1937 10 [Saqqara]. Step Pyramid, temple Gizeh Egypt 23 March 1937 5 [Giza]. Great Sphinx, Temple of the Sphinx, Great Pyramid Cairo Egypt 22-25 March 1937 4 Domed structure (exterior and interior views), street view City of St. Menas Egypt 26 March 1937 24 Basilica of the Baths, Great Double Basilica, Menas crypt, St. Menas City, Baptistery, architectural ruins and details Alexandria to Athens 27-29 March 1937 3 Alexandria waterfront, views of the harbor and city of Rhodes Rhodes Greece 28 March 1937 4 Structures, "Moslem Fountain," street view Athens Greece 29 March-02 April 17 The Parthenon, Acropolis, street view Delphi Greece 03 April 1937 14 Landscape views, amphitheater Delphi to Athens Greece 04 April 1937 2 Landscape views St. Luke in Phocis Greece 04 April 1937 9 People, bee-hive tomb "at Orchomenos near Skirpou," Hosios Loukas, Church of the Virgin Skripou Greece 04 April 1937 11 Views of the church, cloisters Athens Greece 05 April 1937 7 Church (exterior views) Daphni Greece 05 April 1937 2 Roadside views of church Nauplia Greece 05 April 1937 2 [Navplion]. "The Hotel Bourdzi - once a 15th century Venetian fort and later a Greek place of execution," fishermen. Epidauros Greece 08 April 1937 8 Amphitheatre Tiryns Greece 08 April 1937 7 Architectural ruins, landscape views, street view Mistra Greece 09 April 1937 29 People in car, Citadel, architectural ruins, landscape views Olympia Greece 10 April 1937 13 Architectural ruins, columns Olympia Greece 11 April 1937 2 "Basilica" Tripolis to Mycenae Greece 12 April 1937 4 Landscape and sea views, "Bay of Nauplia from Tripolis side" Mycenae Greece 12 April 1937 16 Architectural ruins, landscape views Corinth Greece 13 April 1937 4 Architectural ruins Corinth to Athens Greece 13 April 1937 4 Telestirion at Eleusis, architectural detail, street views Athens Greece 14-15 April 1937 11 Basilica of Ilissos, Tower of the Winds, Portico of Hadrian Knossus Greece 18 April 1937 18 [Knossos]. Landscape views, architectural ruins (interior and exterior views) Athens Greece 19-22 April 1937 1 Tower of the Winds [Sounion]. Temple, café, sea view, "1928 Buick used in touring Greece, left behind in Athens when Near and Middle East Sunium Greece 21 April 1937 7 trip was begun on 4/23 with flight to Baghdad via Alexandria. Buick again saw service for Dalmatian coast trip." 313 Total Number of Photographs in Album 1 ALBUM 2. Title Page: “Volume II. From Athens 4/23 to Baalbek 5/26 including Iraq, Iran, Palestine and Transjordania” Athens to Baghdad 23-24 April 1937 8 Airplane travel: Pefka Bay, Alexandria, Ismailia, Gaza, pumping station, Rutba Wells, Tigris River Baghdad Iraq 25-27 April 1937 8 Street views: jitney service, carriages, café, bazaars, American Legation home Cetsiphon Iraq 25 April 1937 12 Sassanian Palace, "left half saved by Gertrude Bell" Baghdad Iraq 27 April 1937 6 Mosque at Kazemein, Great Court of the Shia mosque, Tomb of King Feisal Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives (ICFA), Dumbarton Oaks Page 1 of 4 "Record of 1937 Trip Taken by Donald Drew Egbert and Andrew Saeger Keck, Princeton, NJ" (PH.BZ.009) SITE COUNTRY DATE NO. DESCRIPTION Baghdad to Kermanshah 28 April 1937 3 Roadside scenes en route to Iranian border: Khanaqin, Khossrovi [Kasr Shirin], "15 miles from Khossrovi and Iraq border." Sassanian palace (interior and exterior views), "photographs taken Qassr Shirin Iran 28 April 1937 12 on 5/14." Baghdad to Kermanshah 28 April 1937 4 Stops for lunch, tea, and nap. Hotel Helal in Kermanshah. Tagh Bostan Iran 29 April 1937 8 Sassanian palace complex with bas-reliefs, landscape view Roadside scenes, including Bisotun relief "that gave Rawlinson key for deciphering cuneiform characters," and Assad Abad Kermanshah to Hamadan Iran 29 April 1937 8 pass Hamadan Iran 29 April 1937 4 Parthian Lion, Alvand mountain range, Hotel Alvand Tomb with Kashan dome, Qazvin, Rey, "Field House of the American Excavations Force headed by Eric Schmidt of the Univ. Hamadan to Tehran Iran 30 April 1937 4 of Pennsylvania" Tehran Iran 1-3 May 1937 8 Rail road tracks, cement mill, bazaar serails, police building, national bank, Palace gates, American College Tehran to Isphahan Iran 04 May 1937 3 Salt Sea, Daryaieh Namak, road scene Qom Iran 04 May 1937 10 Mosque, exterior and courtyard Tehran to Isphahan Iran 8 Roadside scenes: Daliyan, Shah Abbas caravanserai Cyrus Hotel, Ali Qapi public audience hall, Meridan Shah great square, Shah Abbas Mosque, Mosque of Sheikh Lotfollah , 05-06 and 11-12 Shah Hossein Madrasseh, Mosque Jameh. Interior and exterior views of mosques, including column supports, stalactite Isphahan Iran May 1937 40 stucco work, minarets. 05-06 and 11-12 Bazaars, interior views, portraits, rug weaving, street views, Atesh Gah, Alla Verdi Kahn bridge, landscape views. Referring Isphahan Iran May 1937 20 to Atesh Gah, "Myron Bement Smith thinks it is not older than 300 years." Isphahan to Shiraz Iran 07 May 1937 8 Roadside scenes: Izad Khast, Abadeh, roadway mosque Pasargadae Iran 07 May 1937 4 Tomb of Cyrus, remains of Royal Palace Nahsh-i-Rustum Iran 10 Fire altars, Temple of Zoroaster, Achaemenian tombs, Tombs of Darius, Xerxes, Artaxerxes, Darius III, bas-reliefs Shiraz Iran 08 May 1937 8 House and gardens of M.M. Khalil Shirazi, "Iranian agent of Thomas Lipton," nomad tribe, Tombs of Saadi and Hafiz Sarvistan Iran 08 May 1937 24 Sassanian Palace ruins (exterior and interior views) Shiraz to Persepolis Iran 09 May 1937 4 Bandar Amir dam Persepolis Iran 09-10 May 1937 27 Great Palace terrace, Porch of Xerxes, Palace of Darius, Hall of the 100 Columns Shiraz to Isphahan Iran 10 May 1937 4 Roadside scenes: car interior, storm, mountain views Isphahan Iran 11 May 1937 8 "Moslem" cemetery, private home and garden, children playing Isphahan to Baghdad 12-14 May 1937 7 Roadside scenes: police, Sultanabad, Assad Abad pass, Baghdad (street view) Baghdad to Jerusalem 16 May 1937 4 Airplane travel: Nairn Bus Terminal near airport, pumping station, Rutba Wells, aerial view of Haifa "Jericho Jane," a German canon (1917) passed on route. "Our eighteen day trip in Transjordania and Syria from Jerusalem to Aleppo was made in a 1936 Ford sedan driven by an Armenian Alexander Kaldener 'dean of drivers' of the Jerusalem Jerusalem to Amman 19 May 1937 1 Express Co." Djerash Jordan 19 May 1937 32 [Jarash, Gerasa]. Triumphal Arch, Temple, Theatre, Nymphaeum, Bath, mosaic pavement. Amman Jordan 20 May 1937 7 Ancient Philadelphia citadel (exterior and interior views) Karenna Jordan 20 May 1937 8 Arab palace (exterior and interior views) Kasr Amr Jordan 20 May 1937 13 [Qasr Amr]. Architectural ruins (exterior and interior views) Mshatta Jordan 21 May 1937 8 Architectural ruins (exterior and interior views) Petra Jordan 21-23 May 1937 41 Exterior and interior views of temple, landscape, Baths, Roman building Petra to Amman via Kerak Jordan 23 May 1937 4 Crusader fortress, soldiers Qusayr-an-Nuwayjis Jordan 24 May 1937 21 Kusr en Nueyis architectural ruins (exterior and interior views and architectural details) Oum-el-Djemal Jordan 24 May 1937 6 [Umm el-Jimal]. Praetorium (exterior and interior views). Tabqah 25 May 1937 3 Ummayad palace Capernaum Israel 25 May 1937 4 Synagogue of Tell Hum 422 Total Number of Photographs in Album 2 Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives (ICFA), Dumbarton Oaks Page 2 of 4 "Record of 1937 Trip Taken by Donald Drew Egbert and Andrew Saeger Keck, Princeton, NJ" (PH.BZ.009) SITE COUNTRY DATE NO. DESCRIPTION ALBUM 3. Title Page: “Volume III. From Baalbek 5/26 to Venice 7/2 including Syria, Constantinople, Saloniki and the Dalmatian Coast” Baalbek Lebanon 26 May 1937 12 Architectural ruins Es-Sanamen Syria 27 May 1937 12 [Is-Sanamen]. Tychaion, temples, street views. Ezra (Zorah) Syria 27 May 1937 10 Church of St. George (exterior and interior views) Kanawat Syria 27 May 1937 6 [Qanawat]. Architectural ruins, also Nabataean capital in Damascus Museum. Shakka/Chakka Syria 29 May 1937 17 [Shaqqa]. Architectural ruins (exterior and interior views), including cruciform room, Kalybe, basilica. [Shahba]. Architectural ruins (exterior and interior views), including Philippeion, Nymphaeum, Roman baths, Roman Chahba Syria 29 May 1937 7 theater. Bosra Syria 29 May 1937 10 Architectural ruins, south baths Damascus Syria 30 May 1937 7 Roman arch, Great Mosque Palmyra Syria 30-31 May 1937 20 Architectural ruins, temple, tower tomb, underground tomb.