Earlier this year, we announced the launch of the ICFA Oral History Initiative (http://www.doaks.org/icfa/oral-history-initiative) in Dumbarton Oaks, a project that began in 2011 with the support of the Dumbarton Oaks Archives (DOA) Oral History Project. This fall, we have added four (4) additional interviews, which complement three (3) of ICFA’s archival collections. In December 2014, ICFA …
The Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives (ICFA) is pleased to announce the publication of four (4) new finding aids. To view the complete PDF finding aids, click on the thumbnail at the top of the following collection-level records in our online inventory, AtoM@DO. You can also check under the “Finding Aids” field for the direct …
Written by Ariel Polokoff, ICFA Intern (Spring 2015), The George Washington University, Class of 2015 This past Spring semester, I had the privilege of interning in the Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives (ICFA) at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, D.C. This internship offered a two-fold benefit to my undergraduate education—it was both …
Written by Thomas Busciglio, ICFA Intern (Spring 2015), University of California, Santa Barbara – Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) Seeing a professional scanner for the first time is intimidating. A new user like me always wonders how to make the most adequate use of it. In the archival world, the flatbed scanner can …
Written by Beth Bayley, Byzantine Archives Assistant All the talk about the Monuments Men and the role that Dumbarton Oaks played in World War II (as illustrated in our blog post about Harvard’s American Defense Group) got ICFA staff thinking about what else might be in our archives from that era. The following is another … Continue reading
The Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives (ICFA) is pleased to announce the release of a new online exhibition, Artamonoff: Picturing Byzantine Istanbul, 1930-1947. The online exhibit is a recreation of the physical exhibit that was presented at the Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (RCAC) in Istanbul from June 25 to November 10, 2013, … Continue reading
Written by Beth Bayley, Archivist Assistant We have previously mentioned William Emerson, the man who sponsored Robert Van Nice’s survey of Hagia Sophia, but who was he, really? Primarily, Emerson was an architect and the dean of the School of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1919 to 1939. He was also Van … Continue reading
Written by Anne-Marie Viola, Metadata and Cataloging Specialist As described in last month’s post on usability testing, ICFA conducted a series of tests over two weeks in January in advance of our February 10th public launch (490 visits to date). Doing so yielded both anticipated and unexpected findings, which we categorized into three areas of … Continue reading
Written by Anne-Marie Viola, Metadata and Cataloging Specialist Last week ICFA announced the public launch of its online catalog, AtoM@DO, an implementation of the archival collection management system sponsored by the International Council on Archives, ICA-AtoM. And already the site has seen 340 visits! Following a soft launch in December during which the system was made … Continue reading
Dumbarton Oaks’ Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives (ICFA) announces the public launch of its online inventory, AtoM@DO (atom.doaks.org). A searchable database of Dumbarton Oaks’ archival collections, AtoM@DO brings together the holdings of ICFA and a selection of the Dumbarton Oaks Archives (DOA) into a single virtual space, enabling discovery of related materials across the institution. NEW WAYS TO SEARCH Instead of searching collections … Continue reading
Written by Ameena Mohammad, Pre-Columbian Archives Assistant Dumbarton Oaks was founded in 1940 as a hub for advanced research. In October 1941, staff members and fellows of Dumbarton Oaks established an immense research project to gather information about cultural heritage sites around the world. What began as an effort to document these monuments is now part … Continue reading
Written by Jessica Cebra, ICFA Departmental Assistant ICFA’s collections are known for its documentation of architecture, mosaics, frescoes and other aspects of material culture from Byzantium, but the actual fieldworkers and skilled craftsmen who worked to restore and conserve these centuries-old buildings and artworks deserve recognition. Here we’d like to highlight the work of Carroll … Continue reading
The Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives (ICFA) presents a new online exhibit entitled “A Truthful Record: The Byzantine Institute Films”: http://www.doaks.org/icfa/truthful-record. This exhibit aims to reveal the context of the films created by the Byzantine Institute between the 1930s and 1940s by combining them with archival records from the collection The Byzantine Institute and Dumbarton … Continue reading
Written by Fani Gargova, Byzantine Research Associate January 6th is a truly holy day in Christianity. Whether Catholic or Orthodox, yesterday marked an important holiday. Nevertheless, it can be confusing to understand how within one religion, so many different meanings can coincide on the same day. So, let’s deconstruct… The larger part of the Christian … Continue reading
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