Talas

Department Archive
Collection BSA SPHS Image Collection
Reference No. BSA SPHS 01/4048.8163
Level Item
Description Film negative, approximately half plate size, an original negative.
Dimensions 14 x 9 cm
Place Talas
Cappadocia
Dates 1909
Donor/Creator Dawkins, Mr Richard McGillivray
Project Greek Dialects in Asia Minor 1909-1914
Scope and Content Part of a collection of images from Dawkins' travel to Cappadocia and Pharasa between 1909 and 1911. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Talas".
Notes Date based on Dawkins' travel to Cappadocia to study Greek dialects between 1909 and 1911. In the introduction of his 1916 book A Modern Greek in Asia Minor ( p. 1), he mentions villages by the year he visited and plates at the end of the book are maps of the area. Written on the border of the negative: "No. 50".