Carl William Blegen Papers, 1911-1971

I take this opportunity to say that if ever you learn that I am being held by brigands for ransom I hope that you and the School will show complete indifference, never sending or offering more than enough money to pay my board and other reasonable expenses during my captivity (Carl W. Blegen to Bert H. Hill, Aug. 17, 1921).

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ACQUISITION

Carl W. Blegen died August 24, 1971, bequeathing to the American School a large collection of documents, photographs, and memorabilia which had belonged to the inhabitants of 9 Plutarch St., namely, Blegen and his wife Elizabeth, and Bert Hodge Hill and Ida Thallon Hill.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

1887: Born January 27
1904: B.A. Univ. of Minnesota
1907: B.A. Yale Univ.; began graduate studies
1910: Student at ASCSA (Yale fellowship)
1911 - 1913: Fellow in Archaeology, ASCSA
1911: Excavation at Locris
1911 - 1914: Excavations at Corinth
1912 - 1915: Travels with Emerson Swift
1913 - 1920: Secretary, ASCSA
1915 - 1916: Excavation at Korakou (published 1921)
1918 - 1919: World War I Relief work in Macedonia & Bulgaria. Decorated in 1919 by the Greek government Saviors Order
1920: Ph.D. Yale University
1920 - 1926: Assistant Director, ASCSA
1921 - 1922: Excavation at Zygouries (published in 1927)
1923 - 1924: Excavation at Hymettos (published in 1924)
1924: Excavation at Phlius
1924: Friday, June 11, married to Elizabeth Denny Pierce at Lake Placid, N.Y.
1925: Excavation at Prosymna
1926 - 1927: Acting Director, ASCSA
1926 - 1928: Excavation at Prosymna (published in 1937)
1927: Joined faculty at Univ. of Cincinnati as Prof. of Classical Archaeology & Fellow of the Graduate School
1931: Elizabeth bought the house at 9 Plutarch Street in Athens
1932 - 1938: Excavations at Troy
1939: Excavation at Pylos, Nestor’s Palace
1939 - 1942: Taught at Univ. of Cincinnati
1942 - 1945: Joined the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) at Washington, D.C.
1945 - 1946: Joined U.S. Department of State at Athens
1946: Univ. of Cincinnati
1948 - 1949: Director at ASCSA
1950 - 1957: Head of Department of Classics, Univ. of Cincinnati
1951: Honorary degrees from the Univ. of Oslo & Univ. of Thessaloniki
1952 - 1969: Continuation of Excavations at Pylos
1957: Retirement from Univ. of Cincinnati & appointed Professor Emeritus, honorary degree from Oxford (D.Litt.)
1958: Honorary degree from Univ. of Cincinnati (LL.D.)
1963: Honorary degrees from Cambridge (Litt.D.), Univ. of Athens (doctorate), Hebrew Union College, Jewish Institute of Religion in Jerusalem.
1965: Gold Medal from the Archaeological Institute of America
1966: September 21, his wife Elizabeth died; Gold Medal from the Society of Antiquaries in London
1967: Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal from Yale Graduate School
1969: Gold Medal from the Univ. of Cincinnati
1971: August 24, died; buried August 25 at Athens First Cemetery

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SCOPE AND CONTENT

The collection includes a variety of personal and professional papers, and a large number of letters from various Blegen family members. It is divided into five series: Series I. Archaeological Papers and Notes; Series II. Professional Correspondence; Series III. Personal Correspondence; Series IV. Miscellaneous; V. Photographs. The papers date from 1910 to the time of his death in 1971.

Series I: Archaeological Papers and Notes contains excavation papers, field reports, and manuscripts; travel journals relating to ASCSA field trips and notebooks with lecture notes from when he was an American School Fellow; and personal diaries documenting various trips, including the ones he made to Northern Greece, after the First World War, as a member of the American Red Cross. Note that diaries covering the period from 1922 to 1939 are missing and that the excavation notebooks of Pylos have been filed separately, as part of the Excavation Records Group of the American School. The majority of the excavation reports are from the time when Blegen was Assistant Director of the School and deeply involved in the School’s excavations. Most of the manuscripts concern oral papers which were never published. Finally, some of the notebooks and diaries include photographic logs which correlate with the photographs in Series VI.

Series II: Personal Diaries contains Blegen’s travel journals from various trips throughout Greece either as part of the American School program or the Red Cross missions. A number of these diaries include photo records, some of which correlate with photos in Series VI.  The diaries are arranged chronologically. Blegen’s notes on his leisure trip to Europe in 1913 can be compared to an account of the same trip in Emerson Swift’s Youthful Rambles. On the Trail of the Classics, 1912-1915 (California 1975).

Series III: Professional Correspondence contains letters associated with excavations, books and publications, applications, finances, students, and other issues. Also included in this Series is Blegen’s correspondence with Michael Ventris, A.J. Beattie and John Chadwick pertaining to the decipherment of the Linear B tablets. Blegen’s professional correspondence has been arranged in alphabetical order according to the agency of origin.

Series IV: Personal Correspondence contains letters from Blegen’s parents (1910 - 1924), mostly in Norwegian; his brothers and sisters; other family members and family friends; his wife Elizabeth; and from his good friends Bert H. Hill, Ida Thallon Hill, and Marion Rawson, his collaborator at Troy and Pylos.

Series V: Miscellaneous contains Blegen’s manuscripts on Greek politics and correspondence concerning their publication; personal documents (birth certificate, passports, letters of introduction; some financial documents; news clippings; and a few three-dimensional object, like his trowel. Of particular interest are his political manuscripts which shed light on a little known facet of Blegen, that of his concern with the politics of Greece and her relations with the United States. Also of important note is that in 1945-46 Blegen joined the U.S. Department of State at Athens. Finally, the Miscellaneous Series includes some of Blegen’s books, including some written by his brother Theodore (Ted) Blegen. His archaeological books were given to the ASCSA Library, while his collection of fiction is currently housed at Loring Hall (the School’s hostel). His large collection of Greek books was given to the University of Cincinnati.

Series VI: Photographs includes photos of Blegen himself, his wife, family and friends, as well as photographs taken during his several trips, such as the European trip with Emerson Swift in 1913 - 1915 (see Youthful Rambles. On the Trail of the Classics, 1912-1915 (California 1975) by Emerson Swift), the island cruise of 1923 with the ASCSA members, and his trips to Macedonia, as a Red Cross representative.

CONTAINER LIST

SERIES I: ARCHAEOLOGICAL PAPERS, JOURNALS, AND NOTES

BOX 1

Folder

1 Excavation Reports and Notes (Argive Heraeum[1927-28]; Corinth[1926]; Hagiorgitika[1928]; Hymettus, Nemea, Phlious[1924]; Korakou, Gonia; Kyparissi)

2 Excavation Reports and Notes (Pylos; Troy; Yiriza; Zygouries[1922]; Zygouries, Hagiorgitika, Mount Hymettus[1922])

3 Pylos Tablets

4 Manuscripts (“Corinthian History of the Dorian Invasion”; “Overland Communication in Greece during LH III”; “Pottery as Evidence for Trade and Colonization in the Aegean Bronze Age”; “The Date of the Treasury of Atreus”; and part of manuscript on the location of Ephyra)

5 Manuscripts (“Helladika,” “Pylos”)

6 Manuscripts (“Two Athenian Grave Groups of about 900 BC,” cf. Hesperia 21 (1952) 279-294.

7 Manuscripts (on Troy)

8 Book Reviews, Photographic Lists.

9 Various Notes

Box 2

Offprints

Box 3

Journals and Notebooks

  * Trip to Central Greece (8 - 22 October 1910); and Various Topographical Notes
  * Northern Trip (Nov. 1911)
  * Lecture Notes - Foreign Schools (1911-12)
  * Trip to the Cyclades (4 - 10 May 1912)
  * Northern Trip (Oct. 1912)
  * Epigraphy Notes (1911); Draft of Fellowship Report (1912)
  * Lecture Notes (11 Dec. 1912 -5 March 1913)
  * Trip to Thessaly and Macedonia (3-28 Aug. 1917); including photo record.
  * 1917 Corinth Accounts, Erechtheum Frieze
  * Peloponnesian Trip 1921; Erechtheum Frieze (including photographic record 1921 & 1922)
  * ASCSA Accounts (1922-1926)
  * Notes on Archaeology of Southern Acropolis
  * Athenian History Notes
  * Bibliography: History of Corinth
  * Sources of History of Corinth I
  * Sources of History of Corinth II
  * History of Corinth: Mythical to Dorians
  * Prosopographic Study of Ancient Corinth
  * Corinthian Notes

SERIES II: PERSONAL DIARIES

Box 4

Diaries (1913-1919)

  * Trip to Europe (1 July - 30 Sept. 1913)
  * 1 Oct. - 31 Dec. 1913
  * 1 Jan. - 26 Feb. 1914
  * Trip to the Dodecanese (5 - 16 March 1914)
  * [1914] Notes on the “building addition of 1914”
  * 20 Dec. 1914 - 27 Feb. 1915
  * 20 Dec. 1914 - 7 Aug. 1915
  * 8 Aug. 1915 - 13 March 1916 (including notes on Prehistoric Sites/Corinthia)
  * 1 Nov. 1915 - 1 April 1916 (including photographic record for 1917; and manuscript on Allied Policy in Greece in 1915)
  * Athens (Erechtheum) and Corinth (Photographic record 1914-16)
  * 3 - 28 Aug. 1917 (including photo record 1917)
  * Cash Account 1917-1918
  *  Trip to Northern Greece (6 Nov. - 3 Dec. 1918) with notes on war refugees
  * 10 Jan. - 17 May 1919
Note: For more information on Blegen’s involvement with the Red Cross, see Jack L. Davis, “The American School of Classical Studies and the Politics of Volunteerism,” in THE SCHOOLS AND INSTITUTES OVERSEAS, ed. David Shankland and Giovanni Salmeri (forthcoming)
  * April 1922

Box 5

Diaries (1939 - 1971)

SERIES III: PROFESSIONAL CORRESPONDENCE

Box 6

Institutional (Companies, Museums, Institutes, Universities) A - B

Folder 1

Harry N. Abrams, Inc.

Adams & Peck

Acres of Books

Aldine Publishing Company

Active Athens

Allegheny College

American Academy in Rome

American Academy of Arts & Sciences

American Association of University Professors

American Association of University Women

American Council of Learned Societies

American Express

American Farm School of Thessalonica

Folder 2

American Historical Association & American Historical Review (Boyd Shafer)

American Journal of Archaeology (Richard Stillwell)

American Numismatic Society

American Philological Association

American Philosophical Society

Folder 3

American Red Cross

Folder 4

American Research Institute in Turkey

ASCSA & ASCSA Auxiliary Fund

American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem

American Women’s Organization in Greece

Folder 5

Anatolia College (Thessaloniki)

Anglo-Hellenic Tours

Ankara Museum

Antioch College (Yellow Springs, OH)

The Archaeological Club

Archaeological Institute of America

Archaeology

Archaeologisches Institut

Armour and Company

Art and Archaeology

Arthaud (Libraire-editeur)

Associate Alumnae of Vassar College

Association International d’Archeologie Classique

Athene Magazine

Folder 6

Athenium Publishers

Athens College

Athens Police Department

Augsburg College

Austrian Archaeological Institute (Vienna)

Bankers Trust Company

Barnes and Noble

B.T. Batsford, Ltd.

Battelle Memorial Institute

George Biraziller, Inc.

The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc.

Bollingen Foundation

Brentano’s

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

British Council

British School of Archaeology

Bucknell Review

Heinrich Burk Buchhandlung

Box 7

Institutional (Companies, Museums, Institutes, Universities) C - Q

Folder 1

Cambridge Ancient History

Cambridge University

Carleton College (Northfield, Minn.)

Cincinnati Art Museum

The Cincinnati Enquirer

Cincinnati Scholarship Foundation

The Clarendon Press

Classica

The Classical Bulletin (St. Louis University)

The Classical Journal

The Classical Weekly

College Year in Athens

Folder 2

Columbia University

Committee on International Exchange of Persons

Committee for Professor A.D. Keramopoullos’ Celebration

Congres International d’Archeologie Classique (IX)

Congress International of Classical Studies (III, IV)

Congresso Internazionale di Archeologia (VII)

Connecticut General Life Insurance Co.

Constantinople Women’s College

Cosmos Club

Cullen & Dykman (re: John Thallon)

Daedalus

Danish Royal Academy of Fine Arts

Deutsches Archaologisches Institut

Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (see Mitteilungen des Instituts fŸr Orientforschung)

Directory of American Scholars

Doxiades Associates

Dutch Classical Society

Folder 3

Ecole francaise d’Athenes

Encyclopedia Britannica

The English-speaking Union of the Common Wealth

Ephoria of Herakleion

Ephoreia I Y , Olympia

Europa Publications

Evans Brothers, Ltd.

Faber and Faber

Field Travel Service, Inc.

Fifth and Third Union Trust Co.

First International Congress of Mycenaeology

Fitrol Corporation

W. & G. Foyle, Ltd.

Friends of the Gennadius Library

Friends of Greece Relief Distribution

Friends of the National Archaeological Museum

Garden House Hotel, London

Gennadius Library

Greek American Cultural Institute

Greek Archaeological Service (re: G. Papathanassopoulos)

Folder 4

Greek Embassy, Washington

Greek Humanitarian Society

Walter de Gruyter & Co.

J.S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Harper & Row, Publishers

Harvard University (Fogg Museum of Art)

Haverford College (Haverford, PA)

Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (Nelson Glueck)

W. Heffer & Sons, Ltd.

Hellenic Traveller’s Club

Historia, Victor Ehrenberg Bibliography

Historical & Philosophical Society of Ohio

Horizon

Hospital Care Insurance

Hotel Cavandish, London

Folder 5

Illinois Classical Conference

Illustrated London News (Edward Bacon)

IN/SYNC Productions

Indiana University

Institute of International Education

Instituto per gli studi micenei ed egeo-Anatolici

Internal Revenue Service

International Council of Museums

International Nickel Company of Canada,Ltd.

The Israel Museum (Jerusalem)

International Social Service

Istanbul American College

Istanbul Archaeological Museum

Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana (Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli)

Italian Embassy

The Jacques Cattell Press

Joint Library of the Hellenic & American Societies

Kadmos

The Kingsley Hotel, London

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

Kalamata Library

Lake Forest College

Lake Placid Club

Library of Congress

The Literary Club of Cincinnati

London Electrotype Agency

Louvre, Palais du (Musees Nationaux)

Folder 6

Macalester College

MacMillan & Co.

A.H. Marquis Co.

Meriden Gravure Co.

Merrill Lynch (Harold Hugo)

Methuen & Co. Ltd. Publishers

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Ministry of the President, Department of Antiquities

Ministry of Religion and Public Education (Ministry of Culture)

Minnesota Alumnai Association

Mitteilungen des Instituts fur Orientforschung

The National Archaeological Museum, Athens

The National Bank of Greece and Athens

The National Ministry of Children and Orphans

Nestor

Folder 7

New York University

Nomarchia of Argolid and Corinthia

Nomarchia of Nauplion

The Northern Assurance Company

Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance

W.W. Norton Co. Inc. Publishers

Numismatic Museum

L’Oeil

The Ohio Classical Conference

Ohio Medical Indemnity

Ohio, State of, Department of Taxation

Orientalisches Seminar der Universitat

O.T.E.

Oxford University Press

Oxford Classical Dictionary

Pall Mall Press

Paris-Match

Parker and Son (Booksellers)

Peerless Camera Store

Cleng Peerson Memorial Fund Committee

Penguin Books

Phi Beta Kappa

Phoenix Assurance Co.

Polish Academy

Princeton University Press

Propeller Club

The Putney School

Box 8

Institutional (Companies, Museums, Institutes, Universities) R - Z

Folder

1 George Rainbird Limited

Rand McNally and Company

Random House, Inc.

Rathbone Books Limited

Reviews on File

Rockefeller Foundation

Rolscreen Company

Royal Sailing Club of Greece

Scuola Archeologia Italiana

S.S. Pierce Co.

St. Andrew’s Church Committee

St. Paul’s Anglican Church

A.G. Sandoz Publishers

Saturday Evening Post

Scientific American

Scribner’s Sons

Sigma Xi

Smith College

Social Security Administration

Society of Antiquaries of London

2 Society of Antiquity Lovers

Society for the Care and Repair of Monuments in Turkey

Society of Cretan Historical Studies

Society for Historical and Educational Research on Crete

Soprintendenza alle Antichita Firenze

Southern Connecticut State College

Standard Oil Company of New York

Swedish Academy, Nobel Committee

Swedish Institute

Swedish Royal Academy of Letters, History, and Antiquities

Teacher’s Insurance and Annuity Association of America

The Texas Company

Thames & Hudson, Ltd.

Thomas Cook & Son

W. Stuart Thompson, Architect, A.I.A. and Associates

Time Magazine

Toronto Star Weekly

Travel Bureau, Inc.

The Triopian Foundation

Turkey, President of

3 Unione Tipografico

U.S. Department of Commerce

U.S. Educational Foundation

U.S. Embassy, Athens

U.S. Embassy, Turkey

United States Information Service

Universite de Lige

University of Aberdeen

University of Athens

University of California (Library)

University of Cincinnati (& Club)

University of Illinois (Library)

University of London

University of Michigan

University of Michigan Press

University of Minnesota (& Alum. Assoc.)

University of Pennsylvania (& Univ. Museum)

University Press Cambridge

University World Cruise

4 Vassiliades & Theofanides, Studebaker Agency

Visual Publications, Ltd.

Volos Archaeological Museum

Walters Art Gallery

Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft

Yale University (& Club)

Zachariou Foundation

Box 9

Individuals A - B

Folder

1 Abbott, Kenneth

Abercromby, Lord

Abramovitz, Kassie

Adossides, Mrs. E.

Afet, Bayan

Agard, Walter

Aign, Bernhard

Ailshie, W.K.

Akestrom, Ake

Akurgal, Dr. Ekrem

Alcorn, Jane

Aldrich, Harriet

Alexiou, S.

Allen, J.T.

Allen, W. Herbert

Alsop, Joseph

Altern, Arne

2 Amandry, Pierre

Amandry-Rebert, Anne-Marie

Amelung, Walther

Ames, Van Meter

Andronikos, Manoles

Androutsakis, D.

Angel, J. Lawrence

Antonakakis, Anthony

Antonopulos, Christ (DDS)

Apostolakis, John

Aring, Charles D. (MD)

Athanasiades, Eustr. and Hero

Atkins, Mrs. Belle Clay Hancock

Aubreton, R.

Avery, Catherine

Avery, Myrtilla

3 Babbitt, Prof. F.C.

Bacon, Francis

Baker, Hollis S.

Balaphoutes, K.

Balascas, A.

Bancroft, Margaret

Barbour, Bob

Barbour, George

Barnum, Earl M.

Barto, Jane

Bartonek, A.

Bartspcas. Cjrostps

Bassett, S.E.

Bastias, John

Bates, Fredrick D.

Bates, W.N.

Beattie, A.J.

Beazley, J.D.

4 Becatti, Giovanni

Bechtel, K.K.

Beckjord, Mary

Beckjord, Walter

Beer, Ethel S.

Bellinger, Alfred

Bengiz, A.

Benjamin, Anna

Bennett, Emmett (see also Nestor)

Bennett, Margaret

Bennett, W. Tapley Jr.

Bentley, M. Julia

Benton, Sylvia

Berard, J.

Bergal, Lynda

Bermingham, Tom

5 Biers, Bill

Biesantz, H.

Biran, A.

Bittel, K.

Black, Anna S.

Blades, Brian

Blake, Marion

Bloomberg, Marguerite

Boardman, John

Boas, George

Boegehold, Alan L.

Boethius, Axel (“Bo”)

Bonner, Tom

Boubou, Helene

Boulter, Cedric

Boulter, Pat

Bouphidis, N.

Bourberin, Konstantinos

Boutrou, Miss L.

Boycott, Brian

Boyer, Esther

Bradeen, Don

Brady, Henrietta

Brakinou, S.G.

Brardt, William F.

Braunholtz, M. Herford

Brewster, David

Briggs, Ellis

Brini, M.

Briskier, Arthur

Brockhaus, F.A.

Broneer, Oscar

Brown, Gary M.

Brown, J.

Buck, Carl D.

Box 10

Folder

1 Cabot, Maud B.

Caebros, Jimmy

Caldwell, Robert & Martha

Camerer, E.E.

Cameron, Hamish

Camp, Edith

Camp, John

Canaday, Mariam

Canaday, Ward

Capps, Edward (kept separately)

Carpenter, Rhys

Carroll, Harry J.

Carson, Cary

Cash, Mary

Caskey, Betty

Caskey, L.D.

Catling, Hector

Cellarius, Charles

2 Chadwick, John

Charniak, Hyman

Chase, G.H.

Chase, Nancy

Child-Scoggin, Susan

Christensen, Bernhard

Christopoulos, P.

Clarke, Eleanor P.

Clay, Edith

Cleator, P.E.

Clement, Paul

Cole, Ashley T.

Cole, Edward

Collingwood, Teresa

Cook, John

Cook, Robert

Cottrell, Leonard

Cox, D.

Crawford, Frederick C.

Creighton, David

Crossland, R.A.

Crous, Ernst

Cummer, W. Willson

Curtis, A.

Curtis, C.D.

Czarnowski, John

3 Dall’Asta, Eberhard R.

Daniel, Glyn

Darras, Panagiota

Darrow, Karl

Daux, Georges

Davis, Homer

Davis, Mary C.

Davis, Philip

Davis, S.

Davison, J.A.

Dawkins, R.M.

DeCamp, John P.

De Jong, Effie

De Jong, Piet

Delson, S.M.

Demetropoulos, Phronietta

Denman, Frank

Deroy, L.

Desborogh, Vincent

Dewing, Arthur S.

4 Dickerman, Sherwood O.

Dickinson, Edwin

Diel, Garance

Dillon, Myles

Dinsmoor, William Jr.

Dinsmoor, William Sr.

Dinsmoor, Zillah (Mrs. William Sr.)

Diomis, Electra

Donnelly, Joseph

Donovan, Bill

Dšrpfeld, Wilhelm

Dorwin, John T.

Dow, Sterling

Doyle, Anne

Dragoumis, Philip

Draper, Isabelle

Draper, John W.

Droppers, Seton R.

Durbin, Thomas

Durrell, Richard

Dutcher, George Matthew

Duyuran, RŸstem

Edmonson, Colin

Edson, Charles F.

Ehrenberg, Victor

Eisenhardt, Ewald

Elderkin, G.W.

Else, Gerald F.

Ephron, Henry D.

Espy, Wallace

Evans, Arthur

Evans, Elizabeth

Evjen, Dr. Harold P.

Evrard-Garbo, Georges

Ewald, F.

Eyland, Priscilla S.

5 Fant, Jesse E.

Fassin, Gretchen

Fischer, Sara

Flanagan, John T.

Fleischmann, Julius

Ford, George H.

Foster, Elsie

Fowler, H.

Fox, W. Sherwood

Frankenfurter, Estelle

Frantz, Alison

Freienmuth von Helms, Johann C.

French, David

French, Elizabeth (Wace)

Frick, William M.

Fry, Varian

Box 11

Folder

1 Gale, Oliver

Galland, Georgette

Gallavotti, Carlo

Gandert, O.E.

Garland, Paul

Geerlings, Gerald K.

Gejvall, Nils-Gustof

Georgacas, Demetrius J.

Gialouris

Giannestras, N.J. (MD)

Gill, Margaret A.V.

Gillieron, E., Fils

Gilman, Margaret

Gejvell, Nisl-Gustav

Glubok, Shirley

Glueck, Nelson (see Hebrew Union College)

Goethert, F.

Goldman, Hetty

Gomme, Arnold

Gordon, Cyrus

Gordon,W.H.

Grace, Virginia

Graham, Walter

Green, Hilary M.N.

Greenbaum, M.

Greene, James

Greenwalt, Crawford

Gulick, Charles

Gunst, Mrs. H.W.

2 Haag, Herbert

Habbe, Rolf

Hafner, Victor L.S.

Haley, J.B.

Haley, Nancy

Hambridge, Joy

Hamlyn, Ralph

Hammond, Mason

Hammond, Nicholas

Hammond, Susan

Hanfmann, George

Hardnige, Constance

Harissiadis, Dimitrios

Harland, J.P.

Harris, Roger

Harrison, Evelyn

Harrison, Wallace K.

Harwood, Josephine

Hasluck, Margaret

Hatch, W.H.P.

Haugen, Bette

Haugen, W.S.

Hawthorne, John G.

Hayes, John

Heinsch, Dr.

Heilbron, Bertha

Helland, Irene

Higgins, Reynold

Hill, Bert H. (kept separately)

Hill, Priscilla

Hiller, Virginia B.

Hoenigswald, Henry M.

Hoffmeyer, Ada Bruhn

Holbrook, W. Sumner Jr.

Hollister, John B.

Homans, Mary A.

Hood, Sinclair

Hope, Rosemary

Hoppin, Eleanor D.

Hoppin, Joseph Clark

Houston, Oscar R. (Standard Oil Company of New Jersey)

Hoverstad, Torstein

Hroznà, Bedèich

Hughs-Brak, Mrs. Helen

Hugo, Harold

Hull, Ramona

Huxley, G.L.

3 Iacovidis, Spyros

Immerwahr, Henry

Ingholt, Harald

Irmscher, Prof. J.

Izant, Grace

Jacoby, Claude

James, Edward

Jameson, Michael

Janus, Christoper G.

Johnson, Allan C.

Johnson, Franklin P.

Johnson, Philip

Johnston, Mary

Jolly, Alison Bishop

Jones, Dramin D.

Jones, Howard M.

Jones, Leslie W.

Jones, Pamela

Jordan, Imelda M.

Jullien, Kathryn

Kahn, Mr.

Kalogeropoulou, Athina

Kambuts, Zigrid

Kandaki, Anastasia

Kanter, Helene J.

Karageorghis, Vassos

Karouzos, Christos

Karouzou, Semni

Kasadami, I.& D.

Katzenellengoben, Adolf

Keagy, W.R. (“Bob”)

Kelley, Dana

Kelly, William

Kelsey, Prof. Francis

Kenna, E.V.S.

Kilby, Charles H.

King, Lida Shaw

Kittredge, Bill (& Caryl)

Kleve, Knut

Kokonis, Aziza

Kolar, Albert

Koreckà, M.

Kondoleon, Alexander

KoÍay, Hamitz

Kosmopoulos, Leslie

Koumbaros

Kouroniotis

Kousoulas, Prof. Dr. Christos J.

Ktistopoulos, K.

Kurumu, Turk Tarih

Kyparissiotis, Leda

Kyparissiotis, Niobe

Kyriakides, Aristides

4 Lamb, Winifred

Landeau, Jeanette K.

Landsverk, Vidar

Lang, Mabel

Langdon, Merle

Langsam, Geoffrey

Langsam, Julie

Langsam, Walter

Lansdale, Herbert

Lapp, Paul W.

Larkin, Edwin & Florence

Larsen, Jakob

Lattimore, Dick

Lawson, Carol Skinner

Leanti, Margaret Bliss

Lee, Charles W.

Lehman, Karl

Levi, Doro Anna

Levillain, Mr. Jean

Lewis, Helene M.

Lindabury, Dick

Lippincott, Virginia

Lissner, Ivar

Litton, Albert

Loeb, Dr. Hermann

Logan, John G.

Long, Pamela

Loomis, Julia

Lorandos, N.I.

Lord, Louis (re:Shirley Weber)

Lord, Mary Louise

Lotspeich, C.M.

Lotspeich, William D. (MD)

Ludington, Morris H.

Lulofs, J.D.

BOX 12

Folder

1 MacKendrick, Paul

MacLean, Angus

Macurdy, G.

MacVeagh, Lincoln

Malone, Kemp

Manton, G.R.

Marinatos, S.

Marsh, Mr. and Mrs. George Henry

Martin, C.B.

Martin, Dorothy

Mason, Laurens D.

Masson, Olivier

Matsagou, Antonia

Matson, Fred

Matteau, Martha

Matz, F.

Mavris, N.G.

Mavroulia, Sapho

Mayfield, Frank H. (MD)

McCauley, Leo P.

McCormick, Richard P.

McCredie, James R.

McDonald, Bill

McDonald, Mrs. William

McGiffert, Arthur C.

McGregor, Ian

McGregor, Malcolm

McKay, Donald C.

McNeil, R.A.

2 Megaw, Peter

Mellink, Machteld

Mendell, C.W.

Mercer, Ernestine E.

Merkel, Edward

Merrett, T.H.

Meritt, Ben

Meritt, Lucy Shoe

Merkel, Edward

Meyer, Ernst

Meyer, Karl E.

Miller, Helen Hill

Miller, Stephen

Miller, Walter

Mitchell, W.A.

Mitford, T.B.

Monoury, Pierre

Montgomery, Henry C.

Morgan, Charles H.

Morley, S.W.

Mortensen, Gerda

Mourikis, S.

MŸhlstein, Hugo

Murrill, R.

Myers, Hobart

Mylonas, George

3 Nestor, John J.

Neuestadter, Eleanor

Nilsson, Martin P.

Noe, Sydney

Nolan, J.T.

Nutting, Willis D.

Nyce, Fletcher

Nye, Irene

Oakley, Horace

Ochsenschlager, Edward

Olin, Per

Olivier, Jean-Pierre

von Oppenheim, Baron Max

Orlandos, A.

Orlandos, H.K.

Osborn, Dr. Dale P.

Outcalt, R. Franklin

Overbeck, John C.

Packard, Emma

Page, Denys

Paine, Mrs. H.S.

Palmer, C.R.

Palmer, Hazel

Palmer, Leonard

Palmer, Walter

Pangopoulos, charis

Papadakis, N.

Papademos

Papadimitriou, John (and Mrs.)

Papadimitriou, S.

Papadopoulos, A.J.

Papahadjis, Mr.

Papaioannou, D., P., I. & G.

Papastavrou, Prof. J.S.

Papathanasoupoulos, George

Papigis, Ioannis

Paraskevaidis, Miltis

Parker, Wyman and Jane

Parsons, Arthur and Gladys

Paton, J.M.

3 Pealey, John

Pearson, Lionel

Pendlebury, John

Perdike, Mr. Demosth. K.

Perrin, Lester

Perry, E.D.

Peruzzi, Emilio

Petrococlusio, D.P.

Petsas, Photios M.

Pettapiece, M.C. (D.O.)

Philinos

Philippides, Mary Zelia

Picard, Charles

Pisani, E.

Pocock, L.G.

Pogue, Faye

Pomerance, Mr.

Popovitch, Vladislav

Port, George

Posner, E.

Poulitsas, Panyotis

Pratt, Laura Parsons

Pratt, Norman T.

Priestly, Jacquetta

Prindle, Lester M.

Putnam, Michael C.J.

Quatrepoint, Robert (see Renouard, Pierre for Blegen’s response)

Box 13

Folder

1 Rabnett, Jane

Rackall, Mary Earle

Ramage, Edwin S.

Ramb, Eleanor F.

Rankin, Karl & Pauline

Raubitschek, Toni & Isabelle

Rawson, Marion (kept separately)

Rawson, Dorothy (kept separately)

Reeves, Charles H.

Reisner, George A.

Renfrew, Colin

Renfrew, Jane M.

Renourd, Pierre (and Quatrepoint, Robert)

Rhomaios

Richter, Curt

Richter, Gisela

Ridgway, Mrs. Henry Wright (Bruni)

Ridley, Michael

Riis, P.J.

2 Robinson, C.A. Jr. Robinson, D.M.

Robinson, Henry

Robinson, Howard

Robinson, Rebecca

Roebuck, Carl

Rosing, Gisela

Rowe, Stan

Russell, Mary E.

Russell, Sandra L.

3 Sagmaster, Joe

Sakellarakis

Sakillarion

Sakkas

Saloway, Robert (Blegen responded to Solomon)

Sample, Frances L.

Sanborn, Cyrus Ashton & Agnes

Sandeen, Ernest

Santa-Olalla, Julio MartinezSchaal, Hans

Schachermeyr, Fritz

Schaeffer, C.

Scharer, J.

Schmitt, D.A.

Schoder, R.

Scouphopoulos, Niki

Seager, R.B.

Sears, Sarah C.

Sedgwill, A.C.Semple, W.T.

Setton, Kenneth

Severyns, A.Shafer, Robert

Shapiro, Nancy R.

Shaw, J. Howland

Shaw, Joseph

Shawe, Wilfred H.

Shear, T. Leslie

Shearing, Ann E.

Sheffield, Sam

Sherratt, A.G.

Shipley, Charles W.

Shirer, Mrs. William (Tess)

Shoe, Lucy (see Merritt, Lucy Shoe)

4 Simpson, Jenny and Dick Hope

Sinclair, Gregg

Sinker, Paul

Sirkin, Helen and Abe (see Marinatos for a copy of a reply to Mrs. Sirkin)

Sittig, Ernst

Skarshaug, E.C.

Smith, Chard Powers

Smith, EmilSmith, Mildred (see University of Cincinnati)

Smith, Peter (Petros)

Smith, Watson

Smithson, Evelyn

Snowden, Frank M. Jr.

Snyder, John W.

Sorrell, AlanSotiriou, G.D.

Sperling, Jerome

Spitzer, Carl

Spitzer, Doreen

Steach, George

Steffler, Reinhard

Stella L.A.

Stern, Joseph Jr.

Stevens, G.P.

Stewart, Zeph

Stillwell, Richard

Stinton, T.C.W.

Stow, Lloyd

Stratou, Dora

Strosetzki, Dr. Norbert

Stroud, Ronald

Stubbings, Frank

Sturgess, John

Styrenius, Dr.

Su, Kamil

Summers, R.E.

Sundwall, JohannesSwift, E.H.

Syriopoulos, C.T.

5 Taft, Fran (Mrs. Seth)

Taft, Robert Jr.

Taft, Seth

Talbot, Phillips & Mildred

Talbot, Susan

Talcott, Lucy

Tavarer, Vera and Manuel

Taylor, Lily Ross

Taylor, The Lady Millicent

Taylor, O.E.

Taylour, Lord William

Thaw, Jeanette

Thayer, J. Appleton

Themelis, Peter G.

Theocharis, D.

Thomas, Hylton

Thompson, Dorothy Burr

Thompson, Glenn & Margaret

Thompson, Homer P.Thompson, Stuart (& Gladys)

Thornton, Joan

Titus, Georgianne

Todd, Otis Johnson

Toll, Charles

Toll, Richard

Topping, Peter

Trahman, Carl

Travlos, John

Tritsch, F.J.

Trufant, Samuel A. (MD)

Tsakona, Magdalen

Tselios, K & N.

Turner, E.G.

Tzini, G.

Box 14: (including unindentified)

Folder

1.Valmin, Natan

Van Buren, A.W.

van der Osten, H.H.

Vanderpool, Eugene

van Dijk, A.

Van Ingen, Ruth E.

Van Pelt, John V.

Vaughan, Agnes Carr

Vaughan, W.S.

Vazquez, Antonio

Veneris

Ventris, MichaelVermeule, Emily

Verrier, Lindsay

Vogelstein, LudwigV§cetiƒ, Aristid

2 Wace, Alan

Walker, Alice

Walker, Bill

Walker, John and D.D.

Wallace, Paul W.Walter, Otto

Walters, Dorothy

Walton, Alice

Walton, FrankWannemacher, W.L.

Ward, Pauline

Warren, James E.

Warrington, G.H.

Washington, Henry S.

Watt, Thomas

Weber, Roland von

Webster, Arthur H.

Weinberg, Gladys

Weinberg, Saul

Weld, A.W.Weller, C.H.West, Allen B.

Weston, Arthur

Weston, Gertrude

3 Wheeler, Mortimer

White, J.C.

White, Paul Dudley

Whittaker, G. Howard

Whittall, Cedric

Whittall, G.

Wiencke, Matthew

Wilber, Allen S.

Williams, Charles K.

Williams, E. Watson (MD)

Williams, ?

Wilson, Lillian M.

Wilson, Peggy

Winters, Robert K.

Wiseman, James

Wogec, Mary Frances B.

Wolf, C. Umhau

Woodbury, Leonard

Woodhouse, A.G.

Woodward, A.M.

Woodward, Hamish

Woolner, E.K. esq.

Workman, John Rowe

Wrightsman, Charles and Jane

Wulfing, John Max

Wyatt, Natalie M. Gifford

Wyatt, William

Wyman, Mrs. Frances

Xanthoudides

Young, J. Donald

Zaimis, Salome

Zamarovsky, Všjtech

Zervis, Nikos J.

Zervos, C.

Zeydel, Edwin H.

Zoras G.T.

4: Unidentified (by first or possible last name)

5: Unidentified (by year and undated)

6: Unidentified: in Greek.

Box 15 Correspondence with E. Capps and J. Caskey
Folder

1 E. Capps (1919-21)

2 E. Capps (1922-23)

3 E. Capps (1924-25)

4 E. Capps (1926-29)

5 J. Caskey (1939-59)

6 J. Caskey (1960-65)

7 J. Caskey (1966-70)

Box 16 Correspondence with B. H. Hill and Ida Thallon Hill

Folder

1 B.H. Hill (1912-14)

2 B.H. Hill (1920-23)

3 B.H. Hill (1924-25)

4 B.H. Hill (1926-29)

5 B.H. Hill (1930-39)

6 B.H. Hill (1940-58 & Undated)

7 Ida Thallon Hill

Box 17 Correspondence with Marion and Dorothy Rawson

Folder

1 M. Rawson (1939-59)

2 M. Rawson (1960-62)

3 M. Rawson (1963-65)

4 M. Rawson (1966-70 & Undated)

5 D. Rawson (1957-69)

SERIES IV: PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE

Box 18

Folder

1 Letters from his mother and father (1911-12)

2 Letters from his mother and father (Jan. - June 1913)

3 Letters from his mother and father (July - Dec. 1913)

4 Letters from his mother and father (Jan. - June 1914)

5 Letters from his mother and father (July - Dec. 1914)

Box 19

Folder

1 Letters from his mother and father (Jan. - June 1915)

2 Letters from his mother and father (July - Dec. 1915)

3 Letters from his mother and father (March - June 1916)

4 Letters from his mother and father (July - Oct. 1916)

5 Letters from his mother and father (1918)

6 Letters from his mother and father (1922 - 24)

Box 20

Folder

1 Letters from Hallward Blegen (1912 - 24)

2 Letters from J.E. & Ida Blegen (1913 - 63), J.H. Blegen (1924)

3 Letter from Theodore C. Blegen (1912 - 27)

4 Letters from Theodore C. and Clara Blegen (1948 - 59)

5 Letters from Theodore C. and Clara Blegen (1960 - 62)

6 Letters from Theodore C. and Clara Blegen (1963 - 64)

7 Letters from Theodore C. and Clara Blegen (1965 - 66)

8 Letters from Theodore C. and Clara Blegen (1967 - 68)

9 Letters to Theodore C. and Clara Blegen (1964-1968)

Box 21

Folder

1 Letters from Anne Helene Blegen (1912 - 19, 1924)

2 Letters from Anne Helene Blegen (1946 - 60)

3 Letters from Anne Helene Blegen (1961 - 65)

4 Letters from Anne Helene Blegen (1966 - 70)

5 Letters from Martha Blegen (1911 - 13)

6 Letters from Martha Blegen (1914 - 19)

7 Letters from Martha Blegen (1924 - 41)

8 Letters from Martha Blegen (1948 - 56)

Box 22

Folder

1-2 Letters from Elizabeth Blegen (1923)

3 Letters from Elizabeth Blegen (1924)

4 Letters from Elizabeth Blegen (1928 - 29)

5 Letters from Elizabeth Blegen (1931-32)

6 Letters from Elizabeth Blegen (1933)

7 Letters from Elizabeth Blegen (1934-35)

Box 23

Folder

1 Letters from Elizabeth Blegen (1936 - 37)

2 Letters from Elizabeth Blegen (1938 - 49, 1951)

3 Letters from Elizabeth Blegen (1952 - 54)

4 Letters from Elizabeth Blegen (1955 - 59)

5 Letters from Elizabeth Blegen (1960 - 61)

6 Letters from Elizabeth Blegen (1963 - 64)

7 Letters from Elizabeth Blegen (undated)

Box 24

Other Family and Friends

Folder

1 August Olsen

2 Clara E. Blegen

3 Abrams, M.H.

Andronikitis, Anesti and Elpida

Archer, Laird

Blegen, Anne

Blegen, Einar and Singrid

Blegen, Harald

Blegen, Robert

Crum, Margie Blegen (Ted Blegen’s daughter)

Darley, Kathleen (Casey)

Ginnstead, Molly

Gould, Cora

Grove, Robert M.

Kehoe, Lucile (Mrs. Robert M.)

Mayfield, Vicky

McConnell, Mae and Ruth

Palmer, Janice Blegen Hammer (see Spodick, Pearl Blegen)

Peterson, Douglas and Lois

Peterson, Olive

Pierce, Denny

Pierce, Mrs. William L. (“Mother Pierce”)

Potter, Emily

4 Ragchick, “Cousin”

Reinke, Harold and Ruth (Ruth is Harald Blegen’s daughter).

Roberts, Cornelia M.

Robertson, Lois and Gordon

Robinson, Rachel

Spodick, Pearl Blegen and Palmer

Svedonitch, Mrs. Slavca

Swenson, Alice

Taft, Mrs. Hulbert (Eleanor)

Wilder, B.

Wilson, Liz (Mrs. Russell)

Wright, E. Katherine

Wulsin, Mrs. Lucien (Peggy)

SERIES V: MISCELLANEOUS

Box 25

Folder

1&2 Political Manuscripts

“The United States and Greece (1948)”

“Geography and People of Greece”

“Politics and Political Parties in Greece”

“Constitution and Government of Greece”

3 Related Correspondence

4 Other manuscripts (e.g., “Early Impressions of Greece”)

Box 26

Folder

1 Birth Certificate

Passports (1919, 1921, 1923, 1926, 1927, 1937, 1955, 1959, 1963)

Bureau de Contr™le InteralliJ Laissez-Passer, 1917

Bureau de Contr™le, American Red Cross permit to travel in Greece, 1918

Monument Pass, Antiquities de l’Egypt, 1928 - 29

Olsen Family Tree from 1965 Reunion

Drawing of a sealstone with Blegen’s initials

2 Curriculum vitae, letters of introduction, awards, diplomas, speeches, programs & announcements [oversize diplomas are kept separately]

3 Book contracts (Thames & Hudson, Cambridge Univ. Press)

4 Calling-cards, invitations, postcards, Christmas cards, Christmas list box [kept separately]

5 Travel mementoes

6 Pastel drawing of CWB by Julie Langsam (1958); Pencil drawing of man in costume by Phyllis K. Emmerson (1920)

7 “Poems to Order: Thera, June 17-21, 1928” by Robert Shelby Darbyshire

Box 27

Folder

1 Household bills and other receipts. List of embroideries included.

2 Life insurance, retirement plan, tax files, medical bills

3 Bank statements, cheques, etc. [kept separately]

4 Augsburg Park Association

Box 28

Deaths of Bert Hodge Hill, Elizabeth Blegen, and Louise T. Semple

Folder

1 Bert Hodge Hill (will, sympathy letters, etc)

2-3 Elizabeth Blegen (certificates, letters and cards of sympathy, etc.)

4 Louise T. Semple

Box 29

News Clippings

Box 30

Three-dimensional Objects

  * Italian leather folder with embossed and gilted decoration
  * Trowel
  * Keys to ASCSA Main Building & file cabinet
  * Copy of linear B tablet
  * Silver plate from Univ. of Cincinnati for service, 1927-57
  * Distinguished Service Professor Pin from the Univ. of Cincinnati

Box 31

Various Books

SERIES VI: PHOTOGRAPHS

Box 32

Folder

1 Self-portraits

2 Elizabeth D. Blegen

3 Friends and Colleagues (including Sophia Schliemann)

4 Travels with Emerson Swift (1912-1915)

5 Island Trip (1923): Photos taken by Phil Davis, Elizabeth Pierce; Natalie Gifford; F[ranklin] P. J[ohnson].; L[eicester] B. H[olland]; Hazel Hansen.

6 Island Cruise (cont’d) [oversize]

Box 33

Blegen Family Photographs & Athens Memories Album (J. Glanagan)

Box 34

Troy (1964-65)

Box 35

Various trips (1913-17, 1921); Consult photo records in Boxes 3 & 4.

Box 36

Various trips (1922-25)

Box 37

Various trips (1936-38, Epirus 1970 [Ph A N-31/0374-0379], no date)

Processing History

The papers of Carl W. Blegen came to the American School in 1971 following his death. They were partially processed by Dr. Carol Zerner to facilitate the organization of two exhibitions.  In Search of the Homeric Heroes. The Development of Prehistoric Archaeology in the Aegean, June 1-July 28, 1990; and A Friendship in the Realms of Bronze, 21 Nov., 1989- 13 Jan., 1990. From 1995 to 1997, Mrs. Karen Niskanen and Shawna Leigh, under the supervision of Dr. Natalia Vogeikoff, processed the remaining Blegen papers and produced the present finding aid.

Carl Blegen Papers at Cincinnati

When Blegen died in 1971 his archives were divided between Athens and Cincinnati, the majority in his house in Athens.  In Cincinnati were notebooks and photographic albums from the University of Cincinnati excavations at Troy and miscellaneous other records that had been stored in Wilson Auditorium, where Blegen, Marion Rawson, and John L. Caskey shared an archaeological study.

Correspondence of importance for the history of the University of Cincinnati and of the Department of Classics was transferred to the central University of Cincinnati archives (Archives and Rare Books) where it was inventoried.  Other correspondence stayed in archaeological studies within the Department of Classics in the old University Library (renamed Blegen Library).

All correspondence was piece catalogued under the supervision of Jack Davis (2003-2007). Jennifer Glaubius was responsible for that in Archives and Rare Books, Sarah Lima that in the Department of Classics. We are grateful to Hüseyn Öztürk for help with letters in Turkish, Barbara Breitenberger for letters in German, and to Signe Barfoed for letters in Norwegian.

Requests for further infomation about documents in the University archives (“Blegen Archive UC Archives”) should be addressed to Kevin Grace, University Archivist(http://www.libraries.uc.edu/libraries/arb/archives/grace.html).

Requests for materials in the Department of Classics (“Blegen Archive UC Department of Classics.pdf) should be directed to Carol Hershenson, Junior Research Associate (“carol.hershenson@uc.edu”). Hershenson also oversees the Troy archive in Cincinnati, a collection of glass slides that includes original views of ethnographic interest, and a collection of color slides taken at the time of the Pylos excavation.

Blegen Papers at UC Archives

Blegen Papers at UC Department of Classics Archives

Note from Jack L. Davis, Professor of Classics at the University of Cincinnati and Director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens

 

For more information, please contact the Archivist:
Dr. Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens
54 Souidias Street, Athens 106 76, Greece,
phone: 210-723-6313 Fax: 210-725-0584
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