Goldman, Hetty, 1881-1972

Hetty Goldman papers

Collection

Identifier: BMC-Goldman, Hetty

Abstract The Hetty Goldman Collection is a small collection of photographs, correspondence, and other documents relevant to Hetty Goldman—pioneering archaeologist, classicist, scholar—whose excavations in the first half of the twentieth expanded the knowledge of the ancient past in the Mediterranean region. The strength of the collection is in several unpublished photographs of Hetty Goldman from the early twentieth century, correspondence, and the typed text of a speech that she delivered at Bryn...

Dates: circa 1901--1966; Majority of material found within 1911-1950

Found in: Bryn Mawr College

Machteld J. Mellink papers

Collection

Identifier: BMC-2010-01

Abstract Machteld Johanna Mellink, celebrated archaeologist and professor of archaeology at Bryn Mawr College from 1949 to 1988, was born in Amsterdam, Holland in 1917. She received her BA in 1938 and MA in 1941 from the University of Amsterdam, and her PhD from the University of Utrecht in 1943. The Machteld Mellink papers cover Professor Mellink’s academic and archaeological career from the late 1950s to the early 2000s. Included in the collection are her writings and notes,...

Dates: 1938 - 2006; Majority of material found within 1958 - 2001

Found in: Bryn Mawr College

Series 1: Hetty Goldman's Tarsus Files, 1934 - 1963

Series

Scope and Contents

This series contains folders of raw material from Goldman's work in Tarsus, including:

Indices to the excavation notebooks from 1935-1938 Notebook index for 1947-1948 Catalogue of photographs (1934-1948) Typed notes on objects A pottery analysis Typed notes with photos about Iron Age Seals Other notes about cuneiform writing and oven material Sixteen (16) folders of photographs

Dates: 1934 - 1963

Found in: Bryn Mawr College / Tarsus Collection

Tarsus Collection

Collection — Box 1

Identifier: BMC-Tarsus

Abstract The Tarsus Archaeological Collection contains documents from an excavation sponsored by Bryn Mawr College and directed by Hetty Goldman, a pioneering archaeologist. The Tarsus excavation began in 1934 and continued until early 1939, when World War II interrupted it; it resumed after the war in 1947 and 1948. The results of the excavation were published in yearly articles and in three volumes of text and plates on the major periods found in the excavation: the Hellenistic and Roman periods,...

Dates: 1934 – 1963

Found in: Bryn Mawr College

Dorothy Burr Thompson diaries and papers

Collection

Identifier: BMC-2010-14

Abstract

Dorothy Burr Thompson (1900 – 2001) was a prominent archaeologist who graduated from Bryn Mawr in 1923. She specialized in Greek terracotta. Burr Thompson and her husband, Homer A. Thompson, were both heavily involved with the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. The collection includes her diaries, personal correspondence, and professional papers. It also includes contains both personal and research related photographs and postcards.

Dates: 1912 - 1991

Found in: Bryn Mawr College

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Hetty Goldman papers

Machteld J. Mellink papers

Series 1: Hetty Goldman's Tarsus Files, 1934 - 1963

Tarsus Collection

Dorothy Burr Thompson diaries and papers

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