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.
Includes a mule grazing inside theatre.
Taken by Professor Woodhead [William Dudley Woodhead, Professor of Greek/Classics at McGill University, Montreal, Canada].
Taken by Professor Woodhead [William Dudley Woodhead, Professor of Greek/Classics at McGill University, Montreal, Canada].
Taken by Professor Woodhead [William Dudley Woodhead, Professor of Greek/Classics at McGill University, Montreal, Canada].
Comprising a notebook travel log, compiled by John Pendlebury containing photographs and details of trips from London to Athens (16-20 Sep 1928); Mycenae to Xylokastro [Xilókastron] for John and Hilda’s honeymoon (21 Sep -1 Oct 1928); to Salonika [Thessaloníki] (2 – 22 Oct 1928); a cruise around Islands (Cyclades, North Aegean and Saronic islands) (1-13 Apr 1929); to Sounion and Porto Raphti [Porto Rafti, Markopoúlou, Órmos] (16 Apr 1929): Brauron [Vraona] (24 Apr 1929); Rhodes (17-25 May 1929); Athens to London (1-7 June 1929); London to Athens (5-12 Oct 1929) including 4 days in Venice; Mycenae, Nauplia [Náfplio], Tripolis [Trípolis], Andritsaena [Andrítsaina], Kalamata [Kalámai] and Olympia (15-26 Oct 1929); Eleusis [Elefsína] and Daphni [Dhafní] (31 Oct 1929); Monastery of Mendeli in Penteli (23 Nov 1929); Menidi (3 Nov 1929); Sounion (5 Nov 1929); Delphi (9-12 Nov 1929); Rhamnous (15 Nov 1929); Corinth, Mycenae and Perachora (23-28 Nov 1929); Siphnos (4 – 13 Dec 1929); and Athens to Thebes (17 Dec 1929). Also contains photographs of sites around Athens. Additionally includes a contents page at the front of the volume, a hand drawn (traced) map of Siphnos, and a pocket for a “map of travels in the Aegean 1928-29” (empty). The notebook contains a note that the photographs from the 2nd trip to Mycenae (Oct 1929) are in a separate book [this is referring to a photograph album, PEN 7/2/1].
View of the island across the sea [from Santorini].
View from the boat [during a cruise around islands with Charles and Isabel Seltman].
View from the boat [during a cruise around islands with Charles and Isabel Seltman].
A view of buildings at the top of the cliff.
View from the boat [during a cruise around islands with Charles and Isabel Seltman].
View from the boat [during a cruise around islands with Charles and Isabel Seltman].
The scene includes a man and woman with 2 donkeys or mules.
View of people sitting on a bench, taken through an archway.
View of a street with outside steps leading to the doors of houses.
Including a woman standing in an archway.
Including people sitting and standing outside houses.
During a cruise around Greek islands with Charles and Isabel Seltman.