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.
Taken from road, palace visible in background.
Showing a road, houses and people.
Taken from a distance, paved road and horse and cart in foreground.
Taken at a train station. Page is annotated “Turkey, photography forbidden”.
Buildings and landscape, page is annotated “Turkey, photography forbidden”.
Sea and Istanbul in distance (not clear), [taken from the Lloyd Tristino Express boat to Pireaus].
Taken from the British School at Athens, showing Imittós Óros mountain range in the background.
With a woman in the foreground [possibly Hilda White] sitting on [part of the fountainhouse, Enneakrounos] with her back to the camera.
Showing road leading to Acropolis, with cars parked by entrance.
Photographers shadow in the foreground, another figure standing by Caryatids.
The city and fort can be seen in the distance, across water.
With sailing boats and a steam ship on the Strait.
The 3 are sitting on deck chairs on the deck of a boat. Hilda White and Bob Dixon are looking at the camera (though Dixon’s eyes are closed) and John is not looking.
Photograph taken from [the Great Meteoron Monastry, Ágios ton Meteóron, looking towards Kalambáka].