About the John Pendlebury Family Papers
The John Pendlebury Family Papers cover the period from 1913 to 1964 and document the life of archaeologist and WWII hero John Devitt Stringfellow Pendlebury, his wife Hilda and their family.
[The west wing had collapsed in earthquake the day before.]
Labelled with initials: P.A., Mrs A, Seton Lloyd, Hilda Pendlebury, John Pendlebury, [Bobby Emmett], P.S., Mrs Emmett, Isabel Seltman and J.L. [Joan Lloyd].
[This was the steam ship that the Pendlebury’s traveled on during a cruise of the Greek islands with a group including Mrs Emmett and Charles and Isabel Seltman.]
Photograph includes tents and people captioned as “Fur Neck” [Palamides, owner of the land], “Comic Brother” [one of 3 brothers who lived in a house that the excavation was using a room of for a kitchen], “The Kyrios”, Dimitri and Seraphim.