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Athens (inhabited place). Europe - Greece - Periféreia Protevoúsis. Longitude: 23.7333. Latitude: 38.0000.

 Subject
Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Four albums of photographs by James Simson.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.3348
Scope and Contents

Includes photographs of Palestine, Syria, the Levant, Athens, Vienna and Strasbourg, and photocopies of 10 volumes of travel journals.

Dates: 1876.

Journal of Sir Alexander Bannerman of Elsick, of tours in Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, The Levant, Turkey and in Europe, with descriptions of yachting and sporting visits to Scotland.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13494
Scope and Contents The journal includes an eye-witness account of Napoleon III`s arrival in Paris in 1852. In 1853, Bannerman records visits to the Pyramids and Jerusalem and gives a detailed account of a Bull Fight in Cadiz in 1853. In 1861, Bannerman records visits to Constantinople, Athens and Malta.The accounts of foreign tours are interspersed with descriptions of several yachting expeditions, mostly starting from Cowes, to Ireland and Scotland but also to Europe. In 1854-1856,...
Dates: 1852-1867

Papers of David R Hay.

 File
Identifier: Acc.5557
Scope and Contents

Concerning his paper on the proportions of the Parthenon.

Dates: 1852-1860.

Photographs of Patrick Leigh Fermor and others in Venice, Athens, Cairo, Lebanon and post-war Denmark., [1939-1945].

 File
Identifier: Acc.13338/625
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The archive consists of extensive correspondence from fans, friends and associates, including the poet Sir John Betjeman, painter Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika, and Leigh Fermor's principal publisher John 'Jock' Murray. There are also literary manuscripts and typescripts, often with numerous annotations and revisions, diaries, notebooks, photographs, articles and research papers concerning most aspects of his and Joan's life, work and interests, including wide-ranging material on the war, in...
Dates: [1939-1945].