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.
Comprising a notebook travel log, compiled by John Pendlebury, containing photographs and details of trips to Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Palestine [including some places now in Israel] (8 Feb – 8 Mar 1933); Cumberland (United Kingdom, 2-9 Oct 1933); from “England to Egypt” via Gibraltar and Italy (11-22 Nov 1933); Cambridge (United Kingdom, Oct 1934); Palestine [including some places now in Israel] (6-12 Apr 1935); Hadrian’s Wall (United Kingdom, 18-20 Aug 1937); and “East Africa etc.” [Sudan, Yemen, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, South Sudan and Egypt] (15 Jan – 23 Mar 1938).
Cargo, cars and people on the harbour side.
[Part of excavation house designed by Seton Lloyd, for the Oriental Institute, Chicago, excavation].
View includes the front of a boat.
View of coastline from the sea.
View of coastline, including ships in a harbour, from the sea.
With a car parked outside the house.
Taken looking down onto group, [on the ship John Pendlebury was travelling on].
Taken looking down onto group, [on the ship John Pendlebury was travelling on].
2 giraffe visible in the distance.
A group of giraffe are visible in the distance.
Groups of giraffe and zebra are visible in the distance.