I. At the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Acollection of photographs and their captions taken by members of the 1924 team. No original negatives survive.
A. Professional photographs taken by George R. Swain and his ‘Index of all negatives made...during the season of 1924’ (title page and pp. 1–46), which includes a short caption to each negative. The index does not include his Kodak photographs (see I B 3).
Negatives were made on American standard glass plates of the following sizes: 5" x 7", 7" x 11" and 8" x 10", using cameras with lenses of up to 28" focal length. The negatives are referred to by their smaller dimension. The relevant exposures are: 5.1 to 5.294, of which 5.1 to 5.94 were taken at Sizma by Easton T. Kelsey. 7.1106 to 7.1692 and 8.1 to 8.106. Panoramic views were also taken on aCirkut camera: C.50 to C.66. There are fuller captions for all these, but not all the prints survive.
B. Captions and prints (4" x 3") from Kodak film of up to twelve exposures. These are of poorer quality.
1. D.M. Robinson. Captions and prints from 110 rolls (ref. KR)
2. E.E. Peterson. Captions only (no prints) from 29 rolls (ref. KP)
3. G.R. Swain. Captions and prints from 14 rolls (ref. KS)
C. A photocopy of the Journal of Excavations, taken from II B 3
D. A photocopy of Kelsey’s memorandum no. 5, taken from II B 2
II. At the Bentley Historical Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
There are relevant papers under three classes.
A. Correspondence of F.W. Kelsey. Class mark Aa 2, boxes 1 and 2.The correspondence is arranged chronologically with in many cases copies of Kelsey’s reply. These replies, however, are separated from the letters to which they refer by the time taken for delivery. This arrangement, which has led to the breaking of Kelsey’s original filing system by correspondent, is to be regretted.
B. Kelsey Museum Papers, class mark BIMY C450 2. These are arranged under various headings, of which the following are relevant:
1. Institute of Archaeological Research.
This includes in box 4 numbered Memoranda by Kelsey covering the period 20 March 1924 to 30 May 1925. These report to the Chairman (who was also the University President) of the Near Eastern Research Committee on the excavations, the post-excavation work and plans for the future. Box 5 contains correspondence of E.E. Peterson from 1927.
2. E.E. Peterson.
This section is preceded by a useful 1½ page biography of Peterson. Box 1: correspondence and an ectopic copy of Kelsey’s Memorandum no. 5 (cf. II B 1)
3. Kelsey Museum
Box 73. A grey file box containing a set of files as follows:
73.1 Documents containing an application for a permit to excavate at Sizma.
73.2 Labelled ‘Cilicia’. In fact the contents mainly concern practical arrangements for the 1924 season. They show that Kelsey planned to re-apply for apermit in 1925 in his own name to resume the excavation, and that he anticipated a season of similar length to the first.
73.3 Typescript of a report written by George Swain, dated 12 August 1924, giving details for the press of progress up to that date.
73.4 Index to all the photographs made by Swain during the 1924 season (for the resultant prints see 1 above).
73.5 Details of photographs printed and sent to various destinations.
73.6 Two press cuttings on conditions in Turkey.
73.7 A set of drawings made by the architect F.J. Woodbridge.
73.8 Press cutting of 1 July 1925 describing Michigan Near East Research, with two maps.
73.9 A collection of press cuttings from 1924 reporting on the excavations and using many of Swain’s photographs.
73.10 More press cuttings.
73.11 Typewritten copies of earlier reports on Antioch. A long typewritten memorandum in German from the Austrian traveller von Luschan, ‘für eine amerikanische Ausgrabungs-Expedition in Nord-Syrien’.
73.12 A collection of offprints and memoranda concerning Antioch, including notes on Roman coins, a letter of T. Callander to Kelsey on the excavations of 1913 and 1914, a memorandum on inscriptions, and a memorandum from the veteran Turkish classical archaeologist, Macridy Bey.
73.13 Typescript and printed copies of D.M. Robinson’s report on the excavation published in AJA 1924; a record of sculpture found by Callander in 1913; asecond copy of the sculpture inventory (see 3); two typed transcripts of radio broadcasts about the excavation; offprints from descriptions of the expedition published in The Michigan Alumnus.
73.14 Large file of press cutting.
73.15 A further file of press cuttings.
C. Papers formerly in the Special Collections of the University of Michigan Library. Class mark and contents unknown except that it includes a copy of the Journal of Excavations with a complete copy of the Architectural Inventory. This was a typescript journal, entitled University of Michigan Near Eastern Research. Excavations in Asia Minor in 1924. Yalovatch, September 2 1924. There are three sections with separate pagination: pp. 1–88 Journal of Excavations, Antioch of Pisidia (written by D.M. Robinson, except pp. 55–8, 60, 65 and 67–9 which are by E.E. Peterson); pp. 1–26 Journal of Excavations, Sizma (Robinson); pp. 117 Journal of Excavations, Sculpture Inventory (Robinson).
III. In the Special Collections of the University of Michigan Library. All the relevant papers were transferred to the Bentley library (see II c).
IV. At the American Academy in Rome.
The architect F.J. Woodbridge was a fellow at the American Academy in Rome over the winter of 1924–5 in order to work on architectural drawings of Antioch. The archives were rediscovered by Marc Waelkens in 1984. They are now in ahanging metal file folder in a filing cabinet in the Archaeology Suite of the Academy and this description has been provided by the librarian, Dr Christine Huemer:
The archive consists of about 50 large drawings, about 40 photographs and three notebooks labelled as follows:
1. Antioch of Pisidia. Measured drawings of the City Gate, Temple of Augustus and Stoa and the propylon (Arch of Tiberius) by Frederick J. Woodbridge [28 x 23 cm, including some loose sheets and cards].
2. Measured details from Antioch of Pisidia made in the summer of 1924 by Horace Colby and Frederick J. Woodbridge [28 x 23 cm].
3. Architecture [in the hand of E.E. Peterson] [22 x 17 cm].
A large number of pages have been cut out at the backs of notebooks 1 and 2.
V. In the Ashmolean Library, Oxford.
Epigraphical notebooks of Sir William Ramsay, including that for 1924. Ramsay was present from the start of the season until 14 June 1924. He revisited Yalvaç in 1925 and 1926.
VI. At the Public Library, Belediye or Museum (first opened in 1965) of Yalvaç.
In the Kelsey correspondence (II A) there is evidence that photographs relating to the social life of Yalvaç were sent to the mayor for deposition in the public library. Their whereabouts and survival have not yet been investigated.
VII. At the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara.
A collection of squeezes of 143 inscriptions of Pisidian Antioch made in 1977 from the collection in Yalvaç Museum and from stones now located in the town of Yalvaç.
VIII. At the Institute of Advanced Study Princeton.
Epigraphic squeezes made by D.M. Robinson and deposited at the Institute of Advanced Study.