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Francis Henry Bacon Papers

COLLECTION OVERVIEW

Collection Number: GR ASCSA FHB 017
Name(s) of Creator(s): Francis Henry Bacon (1856-1940)
Title: Francis H. Bacon Papers
Date [bulk]:
Date [inclusive]: 1881-1938
Language(s): English
Summary: This collection contains several albums (scrapbooks) compiled by Francis H. Bacon (F.H.B.); four are proper journals illustrated with B/W photographs: “A Journey to the Mediterranean in 1897,” “The Journal of Francis H. Bacon for 1895 from Boston to Dardanelles and return by way of Gibraltar, Algiers, Naples, Palermo, Messina, Taormina, Catania, Piraeus, Aegina, Smyrna, Dardanelles, Constantinople, Vienna, Paris, London,” “A Journey to the Mediterranean in 1914,” and “Journey to the Dardanelles by Francis H. Bacon 1919”.
In addition to these four journals, the collection includes: the publication Investigations at Assos (1902) with additional notes and photographs added by F.H. B.; an album with about sixty late 19th century (what seem to be random) newspaper clippings; an album titled The International Manuscripts, which is a collection of facsimiles from original manuscripts in the British Museum; an album containing newspaper clippings and humorously described by F.H.B. as : “This is My scrapbook  not Yours! If you don’t like the selections, it is nullum tui negotii! -- About 1886 –”; an untitled collection of B/W reprints of drawings and photographs of exteriors and interiors of various buildings and paintings from magazines; an untitled collection of F.H.B. journals, letters and magazine reprints dating 1878–1938 plus miscellaneous photographs and drawings; and pencil drawings, rubbings and ground plans from the Agora, Delphi, Epidauros and Acropolis Museum, Athens Epigraphical Museum, Athens National Museum, National Museum Naples, Patissia Museum, Pireaus Museum and “Stamboul” Museum.
A typescript copy of the so-called "Assos Days" ("An Archaeological Expedition to Asia Minor. Letters and Journals of Francis H. Bacon, 1881-1882-1883"), a typescript account titled "How Francis H. Bacon Got Away from the Dardanelles for the Long Dreamed of Visit to Athens" (May 6, 1938), a typescript of the "Log of the Dorian," a collection of several portrait photos taken by Francis H. Bacon in 1929, 1931, and 1938 (portraits include: Carl W. Blegen, Bert H. Hill, Konstantinos Kourouniotis and Panagiotis Aristophron, Vasileios Leonardos, David M. Robinson, and Adolf Wilhelm), and photocopies of news published by Bacon in various newsletters. There is also a second copy (photocopy) of his travelling journal “Assos Days 1881-1883,” as well as a geological map by J. S. Diller (1881) and a map representing Mr. J. H. Haynes’s route (kept separately in Flat Storage, drawer #15). Finally, the collection includes Bacon's portfolio of F.S.D. (Full-Scale-Detail) moldings and rubbings of relief decoration of funerary monuments, capitals, and friezes in Asia Minor, and Greece. 
Quantity:  0.30 linear meters
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Francis H. Bacon, 1938; Helen Bacon Landry 1995; Tessa Dinsmoor, 1998; Robert S. Bacon and descendants, 2022.
Information about Access: The collection is available for research
Cite as: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Archives, Francis H. Bacon Papers (Αμερικανική Σχολή Κλασικών Σπουδών στην Αθήνα, Αρχείο Francis H. Bacon)

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Francis H. Bacon (1856-1940) studied architecture and graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1876. He and Joseph T. Clarke excavated at Assos, near the Dardanelles, the first classical excavation of the newly founded Archaeological Institute of America. Bacon is one of the three co-authors of the excavations's final publication, Investigations at Assos (1921). After Assos, Bacon became an interior designer working for A.H. Davenport.

Bacon was one of the few architects who continued to produce F.S.D. (Full-Scale Detail) architectural drawings in the early 20th century. He and his wife Alice Calvert are buried in the Dardanelles.

See also: N. Vogeikoff-Brogan, "Francis H. Bacon: Bearer of Precious Gifts from the Dardanelles," in From the Archivist's Notebook, June 9, 2019.

For more information, please contact the ARCHIVES at:
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens
54 Souidias Street
Athens 106 76
Greece
Phone: 213 000 2400 (ext. 425)
E-mail

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BOX 1
Note: This box contains five albums: I, II, IV, V, XII

(ALBUM I): “A Journey to the Mediterranean in 1897 by Francis H. Bacon”.
29 x 24 cm, blue-gray hard paper cover, 101 pages. Condition is good. Printed label inside front cover “The Property of Francis H. Bacon”.

Fifty-six pages of typed, double-spaced text interspersed with forty-four pages (obverse and reverse) of seventy-six photographs. F.H.B. transcribed this travelogue from his hand-written letters (there is occasional penciled editing). Almost all of the photographs have hand-written captions which are copied here without quotation marks. Occasionally comments in italics in parenthesis. Unless otherwise described as postcards or professional photographs, these appear to be photographs taken by F.H.B.

Each page of text has a typed page number at bottom of page and a different penciled page number upper right corner which took into account the addition of photographs. Numbers in parenthesis are the penciled album page number (24r means reverse of page 24).

Text and Photographs

  • 25 September 1897. S.S. Fulda. (Steamship from New York to Italy). (1)
  • The Deck of the Fulda. (2)
  • Germaine Ceresole. (2)
  • Entering Gibraltar, The Waterport Gate, F.H.B., G.C. (2r)
  • Gibraltar (?).
  • The Ticket they give on entering Gibraltar. (A small ticket stub). (2r)
  • [Two untitled photographs, probably Gibraltar] (3)
  • Gibraltar. (3r)
  • In the Garden, F.H.B., Miss Wilder. (3r)
  • 26 September–2 October 1897. On board S.S. Fulda. (4)
  • 3 October 1897. Pass Cape St. Vincent. (4)
  • 4 October 1897. Gibraltar. (4–5)
  • 4–6 October 1897. Pass Sardinia. (5)
  • 7 October 1897. Disembark in Naples. (5)
  • 8 October 1897. Pompeii, Naples, purse-snatcher. (5–7)
  • Diving for Money, Naples. (8)
  • The Galleria. (8)
  • The House of Vettias – Pompeii. 4 photos. (8r–9)
  • Pompei. (9r)
  • The Baths. (9r)
  • Pompei. 2 photos. (10)
  • 9 October 1897. Naples, train to Brindisi. (11)
  • 10 October 1897. Joins his family arriving by steamboat from Dardanelles and they continue on to Trieste, Venice. (11)
  • 12 October 1897. Trieste. (11–12)
  • 13 October 1897. Trieste, board boat for Vienna. (12)
  • 14 October 1897. Venice. (12–13)
  • 15 October 1897. Venice. (13)
  • 16 October 1897. Venice. (13)
  • 17 October 1897. Train to Florence. (13)
  • 18 October 1897. Florence. (13–14)
  • 18–21 October 1897. Florence. (14–15)
  • 22 October 1897. Train to Milan. (15)
  • 23–24 October 1897. Milan (15)
  • The Rialto, Venice. 2 photos. (16)
  • Base of the Rialto. (16r)
  • My Family. (16r)
  • Alice & Fritz. (17)
  • In the Ducal Palace. (17)
  • Florence. (17r)
  • Over the Arno. (17r)
  • Palazzo Vecchio. (18)
  • Fritz in Tower of Palazzo Vecchio. (18)
  • Tower of Palazzo Vecchio. (18r)
  • In Court of Palazzo Vecchio. (18r)
  • In the Loggia, Florence, Bronze Perseus by Benvenuto Cellini. 2 photos. (19)
  • In Florence. 2 photos. (19r)
  • In the Bargello, Florence. 2 photos. (20)
  • Fiesole. 2 photos. (20r)
  • Tomb of Hugo by Mina diFiesole, Florence. Fritz. (21)
  • Lake Como. (21)
  • Como. 2 photos. (21r)
  • On Lake Como. (22)
  • In Como. (22)
  • Brunato. (22r)
  • Villa on Como. (22r)
  • Lake Como. 8 photos. (23–24r)
  • Bellagio, Lake Como. (25)
  • Up to Villa Serbellino. (25)
  • Lake Como. 2 photos. (25r)
  • 25 October 1897. Como. (26)
  • 26 October 1897. Como, carriage to Blevio. (26)
  • 27 October 1897. Steamer to Bellagio for the day. (26–27)
  • 28 October 1897. Bus to Berne, short stop in Lucerne. (27–28)
  • 29–30 October 1897. Berne. (28–29)
  • 31 October 1897. Lausanne. (29)
  • 1 November 1897. Visit with friends. (29–30)
  • 2 November 1897. Train to Paris. (30)
  • 3 November 1897. Paris. Train to Harve, board S.S. Gascogne for New York, “vacation is over” (30–31)
  • Fountains in Berne. 4 photos. (32–32r)
  • On the Gascogne. 2 photos. (33)
  • The Gascogne. (33r)
  • Firenze. Large professional photograph. (34)
  • By Mina da Fiesole in Cathedral at Volterra. Large professional photograph. (34r)
  • Firenze, Museo Nazionale. Large professional photograph. (35)
  • Firenze. Large professional photograph. (35r)
  • Firenze, Museo Nazionale. Large professional photograph. 5 photos. (36–38)
  • Padova. Large professional photograph. (38r)

The second part of this travelogue is 35 typed pages of transcribed letters written to his good friend W.E. “Billy” Chamberlin (classmates at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, class of 1877) from 20 July 1904 to 25 March 1910 on what appear to have been business trips buying and studying furniture and interior architecture designs for his work at Davenport Company. (39–80)

  • “Letters to W.E. Chamberlin, Boston, 1926”. (39)
  • 20 July 1904. Describes trip on 9 July 1904 from Constantinople to Vienna, Zurich, Bale, Lausanne, Paris. He mentions Anastas Adossides, M. Homolle, former director of French School in Athens. (40–46)
  • 4 September 1907, “Another Journey, Letter to W.E. Chamberlin at Cambridge” on board S.S. Deutschland from U.S. to Plymouth, Cherbourg, Paris. (46–47)
  • 5 September 1907, “Hotel St. James & D’Albany, Paris. Letter to W.E. Chamberlin.” (47–51)
  • Two studio photos of W. E. Chamberlin dated 1880, 1891. (50)
  • Two cartoon drawings and hand-written letter to Chamberlin on Hotel Ulm, Münster letter paper. (50r)
  • 9 September 1907. Lausanne, Ulm, Augsburg, Munich, Stuttgart. (51–54)
  • 14 September 1907. Augsburg to Munich. (54–55)
  • 23 September 1907. Rothenburg, Steinach, Nurnberg, Berlin, Hannover, Bremen. (“Berlin is a great big deadly uninteresting city.” (55–59)
  • 6–9 March 1910. “Another Journey! To W.E. Chamberlin. On board S.S. Romanic” U.S. to Italy. (59–61)
  • “To W.E.C. – On a postcard from Algiers”. (61)
  • 15 March 1910. Grand Hotel Marini, Rome, Naples. (62–64)
  • 16–18 March 1910. “To W.E. Chamberlin” Naples, Rome. Talks about the Ludovisi Throne “It was smuggled out of Italy.” and the American Academy in Rome. (64–69)
  • 25–? March 1910. Rome, Sienna, Florence, Bologna, Venice. Concerning the Sienna Cathedral: “Why did they stripe it so? Some crazy loon just out of prison I suppose!” (69–75)

In these March 1910 letters from Italy he talks a lot about the flourishing business of faking antique furniture.

  • Poem from WEC to FHB, Cambridgeport 1890. (76–77)
  • Poem by John Stewardson, 1894. (78–80)

Photographs (81–99), unless otherwise noted these appear to be photographs taken by F.H.B.:

  • Marble vases from Didyma in the Louvre. 4 photos. (81, 81r)
  • Cast of Naxian Sphinx in Louvre. (82)
  • “MEWES Archt. in his office in Paris, friend of Chamberlin with him in Atelier Vaudremer”. (82)
  • Statues in Tuleries Garden, Paris. 2 photos. (82r)
  • Tuleries Garden. 4 photos. (83, 83r)
  • Louvre from Quai Voltaire. (84)
  • F.H.B. Fountain in Court, Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris. (84)
  • Mrs. Edward Ceresole (nee Wilder), Germaine Ceresole and children. (84r)
  • The Tea at Chalet on the Hills. (84r)
  • Ulm. Postcard. (85)
  • Cathedral at Ulm on the Danube. Postcard. (85)
  • Ulm Cathedral. Postcard. (85r)
  • Ulm Cathedral, Main Entrance. Postcard. (85r)
  • Augsburg, the only photograph I took. (86)
  • Munich. (86)
  • Munich, on the road to Nymphenburg, Fritz. (86r)
  • Munich, Palace at Nymphenburg. (86r)
  • Munich, in the Restaurant  Hofbraü. (87)
  • Nurnbürg, St. Sebald. (87)
  • Munich, Starnberger See, F.H.B. (87r)
  • Munich, Starnberger See, Fritz. (87r)
  • Two large commercial photographs of Rothenburg. (88, 89)
  • On the Walls of Rothenburg, F.H.B. Himself. (88r)
  • Rothenberg on the Tauber. (89r)
  • Rothenberg on the Tauber, Fritz. (89r)
  • Rothenberg, Queer little House outside the walls. (90)
  • Rothenburg, Entrance to “Q.L. House”. (90)
  • Rothenberg. 2 photos. (90r)
  • Hildesheim. 4 postcards. (91, 91r)
  • Madeira, 1910. (92, 92r)
  • Madeira. Large commercial photograph. (no page number)
  • Some of the things I bought in Naples. Think this was by Percier & Fontaine. (no page number, r)
  • Some of the things I bought in Naples. Inlaid chest. (no page number, r)
  • Napoli, Museo Nazionale, Diana. Postcard. (93)
  • The Sicilian Table. (93)
  • Florence, In Antique Warerooms. 2 photos. (93r)
  • Hooray! I didn’t have to buy this. (94)
  • Florence. (94)
  • In Florence. (94r)
  • Siena, Town Hall. Large commercial (?) photograph. (95)
  • Siena, Torch Support. Large commercial (?) photograph. (95r)
  • Siena. 2 postcards. (96)
  • In Florence. Postcard. (96r)
  • In Florence, Ponte Vecchio, Gallery over to Pitti Palace. (96r)
  • Rome, Capitol Museum, Greek Charioteer. 2 photos. (97)
  • Rome, Capitol Museum. (97r)
  • Rome, Capitol Museum, Greek Pedestal in Court. (97r)
  • Rome Museo Nazionale. Large commercial photo. (98)
  • Rome Museo Nuovo nel Palazzo. Large commercial photo. (98r)
  • Glued onto back of last page and inside back cover: handwritten list of furniture purchases and amount paid in Naples and Rome on 22 March 1910 and typed list of furniture purchases and amount paid in Florence on 24 March 1910.

 

(ALBUM II): “The Journal of Francis H. Bacon for 1895 from Boston to Dardanelles and return by way of Gibraltar, Algiers, Naples, Palermo, Messina, Taormina, Catania, Piraeus, Aegina, Smyrna, Dardanelles, Constantinople, Vienna, Paris, London”

29 x 24 cm, greenish hard paper cover, 70 pages.Condition is good. Printed label inside front cover “The Property of Francis H. Bacon”.

Thirty-nine pages of typed, double-spaced text interspersed with twenty-seven pages (fifty-four obverse and reverse pages) of eighty-five snapshot photographs presumably taken by F.H.B. plus large commercial photographs.

F.H.B. transcribed this travelogue from his hand-written letters (there is occasional penciled editing). Almost all of F.H.B.’s photographs have hand-written captions.

Each page of text has a typed page number at bottom of page and a different penciled page number upper right corner which took into account the addition of photographs. Numbers in parenthesis are the penciled album page number (24r means reverse of page 24).

  • 22 March 1895. From Winchester to SS Fulda. (1)
  • 23–29 March 1895. On board SS Fulda. (2)
  • 1 April 1895. Gibraltar. (2)
  • 2 April 1895. Algiers. (3)
  • 4-5 April 1895. Napoli. See mention of Koldeway and Puchstein. (5)
  • 6-8 April 1895. Palermo. (6–9)
  • 9 April 1895. Messina. (10–11)
  • 13 April 1895. Piraeus. (11)
  • 14 April 1895. Smyrna. (12)
  • 16–24 April 1895. Dardanelles. (13, 14)

Photographs with hand-written captions

  • Gibraltar. (2 large commercial photos on 2 unnumbered pages)
  • Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Cope. (15)
  • Ethelbert Nevin. (15).
  • Group photo: Mrs. Nevin, Alice, Mrs. March, Nevin. (15r)
  • Group photo: Paul Nevin, Fritz Bacon. (15r)
  • Algiers. (16, 2 photos).
  • Dorothy Nevin. (16r)
  • Fritz. (16r)
  • The mosque we visited in Algiers. (17)
  • Doorway in Algiers. (18, large commercial photo)
  • The Pirate Boatmen. Naples. (19).
  • Our Luggage! 10 trunks, 3 bags, parcels, bicycle, etc. Drawn on picture, official saying Liras! Liras! (19)
  • Palermo. (19r)
  • Fritz in Palermo Cathedral. (19r)
  • Monreale. (2 large commercial photos, no page numbers)
  • Fritz sailing his boat in Hotel des Palmes. (20)
  • Monreale. Alice, Fritz, Laura. (20)
  • Monreale. (20r)
  • Monreale Cloister. (20r)
  • Palermo Cathedral. (large commercial photo, no page number)
  • Palermo Cathedral. (large commercial photo, no page number)
  • Campo Santo Messina. (21)
  • Taormina. (21)
  • In the theatre at Taormina. (21r)
  • At Piraeus – Laura, Irene, Paul, Fritz. Revel children. (21r)
  • Monreale (large commercial photo, no page number)
  • Tombs. (large commercial photo, no page number)
  • Etna 1892. (large commercial photo, no page number).
  • S. Domenico con Etna – Taormina. (large commercial photo, no page number)

Text

  • 24 April 1895. Troy. (23)
  • 25 April 1895. Chigri, ancient Neandria. “Find the old temple excavated by Koldewey from which came the proto Ionic capital so long in the Calvert farm yard!” (23, 24)
  • 26–27 April 1895. Dardanelles. (25)
  • 28 April 1895. Hissarlik. (25)
  • 29 April–2 May 1895. Dardanelles. (26–29)
  • 3 May 1895. Constantinople. (29)
  • 3 May 1895. Receipt for Hotel Pera Palace, Constantinople. (28r)

Photographs

  • Calvert House. Garden side. (30)
  • Edith and Fritz. (30)
  • Calvert Farm “Thymbra”, The “Chicago Windmill”. (30r)
  • Thymbra Farm House. (30r)
  • Fording the Scamander, Expedition to Chigri. (31)
  • Large columns in Quarry (with measurements). (31)
  • Large columns in Quarry. (2 photos, 31r)
  • The Walls of Chigri (Neandria). (32)
  • Chigri. (32)
  • Picnic under Plane Tree at Chigri. (32r)
  • Helene and Winnie Calvert. (33)
  • Fritz and Winnie. (33)
  • F.H.B. and Greek Stele at Thymbra (Stele now in Boston Museum). (33r)
  • Winnie and “Alfredo”. (33r)
  • The Family at Thymbra. (34)
  • Antiquities found at Thymbra. (34)
  • Suleiman on Gustave’s Arab. (34r)
  • The Plain at Troy. (34r)
  • Small Theatre at Hissarlik. (2 photos, 35)
  • Bas Relief from Hissarlik. (2 photos, 35r)
  • Hissarlik. (36)
  • Fritz at Scaen Gate, Hissarlik. (36)
  • Frank Calvert at Hissarlik. (2 photos, 36r)

Page 37 is missing

  • The Start for “Priam’s Gold Mines”. (38)
  • Ahmet Bey. (38)
  • Astyra. (38r)
  • Entrance to Ancient Greek Mine. (38r)

Text
4–6 May 1895. Constantinople. (39)

Photographs

  • Ichinli Kiusk, Constantinople. (40)
  • Marble Palm Tree, Said to come from Delos. (40)
  • Lycian Sarcophagus in Museum Yard. Constantinople. (40r)
  • Capital from Priene  and added in pencil: Magnesia – AD MAEADER, now inside Museum at Constantinople, drawn by F.H.B. 1828. (40r)
  • Bosphoros Kaik. (41)
  • Valideh Mosque. (41)
  • Group photo: Helen Bleck, Uncle Edgar Whitaker, Mr. Wrench, Aunt Alice, Mr. Bleck, Evelline, Aunt Lavinia. (41r)
  • Pera, from Aunt Alices’ Window. (41r)
  • Stamboul. (42)
  • St. Sophia. (42)
  • In Vienna Museum. (2 photos, 42r)
  • Vienna Museum. (2 photos, 43)
  • Tinseau in Bois de Boulogne and two calling cards: M. Rushdi and Oscar Iskender. (43r)

Text

  • 7 May 1895. Sophia, Bulgaria. (44)
  • 8 May 1895. Vienna. (44)
  • 8 May 1895. Playbill from Vienna Theater. (44r)
  • 9–21 May 1895. Paris. (45–49)
  • Three furniture store business cards in Paris. (46r) 
  • Receipt for clothing store in Paris. (47r)
  • Receipt Hotel Chatham, Paris. (48r)
  • 21–23 May 1895. London. (49–52)
  • 22 May 1895. Receipt from tailor. (51r)
  • Three furniture store business cards. (52r)
  • 23–24 May 1895. London. (53)
  • 25–29 May 1895. London, Erith. (54–60) (Mentions J.T. Clark who worked at Assos and controversy with Norton and Athens School, page 58.)
  • 1 June 1895. On board S.S. New York. (60)

Photographs

  • St. Mary’s Strand. (61)
  • Village Church at Erith. (61r)
  • Hitchin and photo of Millard. (62)
  • Shops at Hitchin. (62)
  • The Old Church at Hitchin. (two photos, 62r)
  • Glued into inside back cover is a document in Arabic, penciled at top “FHB My Passport 1895”.


(ALBUM IV) “A Journey to the Mediterranean in 1914 by Francis H. Bacon” (In pencil underneath “Hoping to spend a Peaceful Summer!”
[There is no album III]

Thirty-nine pages of typed, double-spaced text interspersed with forty-one pages (many obverse and reverse) of 138 snapshot photographs presumably taken by F.H.B. plus large commercial photographs.
29 x 24 cm, brown and green paper hardcover, ninety-seven pages. Many pages are loose or not attached to binding.

F.H.B. transcribed this travelogue from his hand-written letters (there is occasional penciled editing). Almost all of F.H.B.’s photographs have hand-written captions.

Each page of text has a typed page number at bottom of page and a different penciled page number upper right corner which took into account the addition of photographs. Numbers in parenthesis are the penciled album page number (24r means reverse of page 24).

Printed label inside front cover “The Property of Francis H. Bacon”.

  • 4–16 July 1914. S.S Kaiser Franz Joseph (in pencil “now the President Wilson”) from New York to Patras. (1)
  • Hand-written poem originally written on a postcard and sent to W.E. Chamberlin. (1r)
  • 13 July 1914. Algiers. (2)
  • 15 July 1914. Naples. (2)
  • 16 July 1914. Patras. (3)
  • 17–19 1914. Patras, Olympia, Patras. (3,4/8)

Photographs

  • Alice in Fayal. (4)
  • Algiers. (4)
  • Olympia, Entrance to Stadium. (4r)
  • Olympia, Capital. (4r)
  • Olympia, The Altis. (4r)
  • Olympia, In the Museum. (5)
  • Olympia, The Hill of Kronos (Museum in Foreground). Postcard. (5)
  • Olympia Museum, The Victory. (5r)
  • Olympia Museum, The Hermes. (5r)
  • Olympia, The Hera Temple. (6)
  • Olympia, Base where Hermes stood in Hera Temple. (6)
  • Olympia, Pedestal of “Victory”. (At top right “Me!”). (6r)
  • Olympia. (6r)
  • Olympia, Lions Heads from Temple. (7)
  • Olympia, Capital from Zeus Temple (Abacus – 9 ft. square). (7)
  • Olympia Museum, Lions Heads from Zeus Temple. Note difference in design. (7r)
  • Olympia. (7r)

Text

19, 20 July 1914. Itea, Delphi. “Ephor Condoleon is very obliging and invites us to photo and measure anything we like.” Lengthy description of site and museum. (4/8, 5/10, 6/21)

Photographs

  • Delphi, The Temenos. (9)
  • Delphi. (9)
  • Delphi. (9r)
  • Delphi. (9r)
  • Delphi, Treasury of Siphnos (large commercial photo). (11)
  • Delphi, Treasury of the Athenians built from spoils of Marathon. (12)
  • Delphi. (12)
  • Delphi, Foundations of Temple. (12r)
  • Delphi, Athenian Treasury (13)
  • Delphi, Athenian Treasury (13)
  • Delphi, Mann and his friends. (13r)
  • Delphi, In the Theatre. (13r)
  • Delphi, Athenian Treasury Metope. “Great” handwritten on this large commercial photograph. (13 ½ )
  • Delphi, Two penciled drawings: Pedestal of “Charixenos” and Two Column Monument of “Charixenos”. Date about 240 B.C. Traced from Bourguet. (13 ½ r)
  • Delphi Museum, The Bronze Charioteer. (14)
  • Delphi Museum, Agias. (14)
  • Delphi Museum, two photographs of Reliefs from Treasury of Siphnos. (14r)
  • Two photographs From Treasury of Siphnos. (15)
  • Delphi Museum, two photographs of Acroterion from Athenian Treasury. (15r)
  • Delphi, Base of Serpent Column, Bronze Serpent now in Hippodrome Constantinople (16)
  • Delphi, Black Marble Bases of Gelon. (16)
  • Delphi, Cornice from Treasury of Siphnos. (16r)
  • Delphi, Base of Treasury of Siphnos. (16r)
  • Delphi, Base of Tholos. (17)
  • Delphi, Tholos at Marmacia. (17)
  • Delphi, View from Theatre towards Temple. (17r)
  • Delphi, Marble Altar from Tholos. (18)
  • Delphi, Treasury of Massilia. (18)
  • Delphi, Treasury of Massilia. (18r)
  • Delphi, Temple. (19)
  • Delphi, Acroterion from Athenian Treasury. (19)
  • Delphi, Caryatid. (19)
  • Delphi, Cornice of Siphnian Treasury. (19)
  • Delphi, Ionic Base in front of Museum. (19)
  • Delphi, Capital from Tholos. (19)
  • Delphi, Naxian Sphinx. (19r)
  • Delphi, Capital from “Two Column” Monument to “Aristaineta”. (19r)

Text

20–25 July 1914. Athens. “Go to American School out in the slope of Lycavettus. Meet Dinsmoor and Thompson . . .”. (6/21, 7/32)

Photographs

American School of Athens. Dinsmoor, F.H.B., Stanton. (22)

Addition to American School. (22)

Athens, The Acropolis. (22r)

Athens, The Erectheion, 1914. (22r)

Acropolis Museum, two photographs of Archaic Statue (My Beauty). (23)

Acropolis Museum. (23r)

Acropolis Museum. (23r)

Acropolis Museum, Horse of a Hero. (Large professional photograph.) (24)

Acropolis Museum. (Large professional photograph of above, another view.) (24)

Acropolis Museum, Archaic female statue. (Large professional photograph.) (24)*

*All three are numbered 24.

Acropolis Museum, Archaic female statue. (Large professional photograph.) (25)

Acropolis Museum. (26)

Acropolis Museum. (26)

National Museum Athens. (26r)

National Museum Athens. (26r)

National Museum Athens. (27)

National Museum Athens. (27)

National Museum Athens. (27r)

National Museum Athens, Acroterion from Epidauros. (27r)

National Museum Athens, Portion of drapery from Lycosura. (Large professional photograph.) (28)

Untitled, unnumbered large professional photograph.

Gravestone from Street of Tombs Athens. (29)

Bases of Gravestones. (29)

The Parthenon, 1914. (29r)

The Parthenon, 1914. (29r)

Propylaea, 1914. (30)

F.H.B. In the seat of the High Priest, Theatre of Dionysos. (30)

Piraeus Museum. (30r)

Port of Munychia. (30r)

In the Piraeus Museum. (31)

In the Piraeus Museum. Added in pencil: “This Cap Measured by FHB in 1928”.  (31)

Calvert House Dardanelles. (31r)

Godfrey Whittall’s House. (31r)

Text

25 July 1914. Piraeus to Dardanelles. (7/32)

26 July 1914. Dardanelles. (7/32).

Photographs

Calvert House – Dardenelles – Before the Earthquake in 1912. (between 7/32 and 8/33)

Roof of Calvert House after the Earthquake of 1912. 2 photos. (reverse)

Text

27—31 July, 1, 2 August. Dardanelles. “The country is very uneasy at the recent chasing out of the Greeks from all the coast villages in the Trroad . . . . (9/35). Lengthy description of events. (8/33, 9/35, 10/37)

Photographs

Dardanelles, Our Bungalow in the Garden. (34)

Dardanelles, The Kiosk. (34)

Dardenelles, Turkish Fountain and Mr. Stuck. (34r)

Dardanelles, Rodney, Godfrey, Winnie. (34r)

Text

3 August 1914. Dardanelles. “Turkish reserves being called out. This looks very serious.” (10/37, 11/39)

Photographs

Thymbra Farm House. (38)

Frederick Calvert at work on his Book. (38)

Thymbra Farm, The Plain. (38r)

Thymbra Farm, Water for the Steam Engine. (38r)

Thymbra Farm, Alice. (40)

Thymbra Farm, Plane Tree Near the Thymbrius. (40)

Thymbra Farm, The new Threshing Machine. (40r)

Thymbra Farm. (40r)

Text

  • 4 August 1914. Thymbra Farm. (12/41)
  • 5 August 1914. Return to Dardanelles. “Germany has declared war on Russia and France. . . . Martial law is declared in Dardanelles . . . . Evidently I will have to give up going to Europe by Constantinople and Munich.” (12/41, 13/42)
  • 6 August 1914. Dardanelles. (13/42)
  • 8 August 1914. Dardanelles. “England has declared war on Germany and Austria. . . . Must begin to think about getting back to America.” (14/43)
  • 9 August 1914. Dardanelles. (15/44)
  • 10 August 1914. Board Italian boat for Salonica and Piraeus but not allowed to leave. Return to Dardanelles. (16/45)

Photographs

Dardanelles, Edith, Alice. (46)

Dardanelles, F.H.B., A.C.B. (46)

Dardanelles, The “Breslau” Dardanelles, August 12th 1914. (46r)

Dardanelles, The Indomitable off Tenedos – Aug 14th 1914. (46r)

Text

  • 11 August 1914. On board the Romania hoping to be permitted to sail. (17/47—20/50)
  • New York Times, 23 January 1918, article “Four Explosions as Breslau Sank. (17/47r)
  • 12 August 1914. Still on board waiting for permission to leave. “What a pity I have used up all my photograph film.” Change to American flag boat going to Mytilene. (20/50, 21/51)13—16 August 1914. Describes Greek refugees continuously arriving in Dardanelles. (22/52—24/55)

Photographs

Postcard of Mytilene. (54)

F.H.B., Capt. Pears in the Square, Athens. (54)

Athens looking towards Lycabettus. (54r)

Athens towards Hymettos from the Acropolis. (54r)

Text

18 August 1914. Piraeus. Talks about what he hears about the war. (24/55, 25/56)

20 August 1914. Piraeus. (26/57)

22—23 August 1914. Poros. (26/57—28/63)

Photographs

Eight photographs of Poros. (58, 58r, 59, 59r)

Poros. (61)

Poros. Demetri and Mulari. Excursion to Calauria. (61)

Poros. (61r)

Villa of Mad. Dragoumis. Poros. (61r)

View from Calauria towards Methana. (62)

Near Poseidon Temple Calauria. (62)

Temple at Port, Aegina (2 photos). (62r)

Text

24 August 1914. Aegina, Piraeus. Visit Aegina Museum with Ephor Pelicanos. (29/65—31/67)

26—27 August 1914. On board the Thessaloniki. (31/67)

28 August 1914. Patras. Continue with the Thessaloniki. (32/68)

29 August 1914. On board the Thessaloniki. (33/69)

Photographs

The “Justice” French Man of War off Taranto. (70)

Dr. Clarence Young and Family. On the deck of the Thessaloniki. (70)

Dr. Smith, Dr. Polson. (70r)

English Torpedo Boat off Gibraltar. (70r)

Text

30 August 1914. Palermo, on board the Thessaloniki. (34/71)

3 September 1914. Gibraltar, on board the Thessaloniki. (34/71)

17 September 1914. Arrive in New York. (35/72)

Letters from Captain Guy B. Pears

  • The last nineteen pages are typed transcriptions of six letters from Captain Guy B. Pears, Royal Engineers, to F.H.B. They date 16 September 1914 to 29 September 1916 and describe in very interesting detail his World War I experiences in Egypt, in the trenches in France, recuperating from a wound in London hospital and return to the trenches.
  • The last page has a large photograph, which Pears refers to in his last letter: “Capt. Pears & Genl. Kitchener – At Woolwich Inspecting work of Cadets. Probably the last photo of Kitchener taken before his death! [See this photograph in envelope of photographs at back of Album X.]
  • On the reverse is an unidentified 1915 newspaper article: “Turkish Women Flee Dardanelles Town”
  • F.H.B. unused ticket from Piraeus to Constantinople.
  • Calling card of Dimitry Jean Dragouomis.

 

(Album V): “Journey to the Dardanelles by Francis H. Bacon 1919” (1)

Much of this diary is a description of the damage to Dardanelles and environs resulting from World War I battles as related by British military and locals.

29 x 24 cm album, blue-gray hard paper cover, seventy-four pages. Condition is good.

Thirty pages of typed, double-spaced text interspersed with forty-four pages (obverse and reverse) of seventy-six snapshot photographs presumably taken by F.H.B. plus large commercial photographs. F.H.B transcribed this travelogue from his hand-written letters (there is occasional penciled editing). Almost all of F.H.B.’s photographs have hand-written captions.

Each page of text has a typed page number at bottom of page and a different penciled page number upper right corner which took into account the addition of photographs. The penciled number is noted here.

Printed label inside front cover “The Property of Francis H. Bacon”.

Text and Additions

5 August 1919.  On board S.S. Canada from New York to Piraeus. “. . . I am bound for Turkey to bring back my wife whom I left there in 1914 . . .” (1)

13 August 1919. Pass Gibraltar. (3)

15-18 August 1919. Oran (Algeria). (3)

20 August 1919. Piraeus. Get ship bound for Dardanelles. (3, 4)

21 August 1919. Smyrna. “Fighting is constantly going on in the interior and Turks are taking revenge on the many Greeks left in the interior around Aidin, etc.” (4)

22 August 1919. Arrive at Dardanelles. “I settle down to a peaceful orderly existence.” “English Tommies everywhere!” Describes war damage in the area. (4, 5, 10)

1 September 1919. Dardanelles. Continues description of impact of war on the region. “In rummaging one of the attics [of the old family house], find a packet of old letters from Dr. Schliemann to Uncle Frank Calvert which may prove interesting, written mostly from Hissarlik where Dr. S. was excavating!” (10, 11, 17, 21, 22)

11 September 1919. “Excursion to Gallipoli Peninsula to visit the battlefields . . .” (22–24)

Two calling cards: Αλεχανδρος Παπαγαραλαμπους, Le Comte de Aldrovandi. (26r)

17 September 1919. “Excursion to Yenishehr! Two Greeks sent as a committee from Salonika to inspect their village which they had not seen since they were driven out by the Turks in 1914.” (24, 28, 29)

British permission given to Francis H. Bacon and wife to go to Constantinople and return to Chanak, 10 October 1919. (29r)

1 October 1919. “Have been trying to get information from Constantinople about steamers to U.S. but can hear nothing definite so I decide to up myself [by boat].” (30, 37)

3 October 1919. Spend the day at the Constantinople Museum. (37)

4 October 1919. Wander around Constantinople. (37)

5 October 1919. Excursion to Turkish cemetery in Scutari and Tcham lidjah. (37, 38)

6 October 1919. Secure passage on the Martha Washington for return to U.S. (38)

7 October 1919. Return to Dardanelles to pick up his wife. (45)

8 October 1919. Arrive at Gallipoli and wander around the town, back to Dardanelles. (45)

10 October 1919. Informed they cannot travel on the Martha Washington. (45, 47)

15 October 1919. Dardanelles, Gallipoli. Waiting to find passage to U.S. Does some work on the house—see Turkish receipt for tile work (47r, 48, 49)

22 October 1919. Trip to Sedil Bahr with friends. Pass through Krithia, Cape Helles, Kalid Bahr, Havouv-dere. Soghan dere, return to Chanak. (48, 49, 50)

Telegraph informing F.H.B. he cannot travel on the Martha Washington. (46r)

2 November 1919. Dardanelles. (50, 56)

3 November 1919. Walk to Hamidieh Fort. (56)

8 November 1919. Story of Helene’s ten day trip to Ezineh, Thymbra (the family farm), “the country very unsafe”. (56, 57)

9–12 November 1919. Attempt to get a boat for Constantinople. (57, 58)

Two calling cards: I.M. Farhi, Vely Namik. (57r)

14 November 1919. Constantinople, book passage for return to U.S. (58)

16 November 1919. Excursion to Hissar with group of Europeans. (58, 59)

17–24  November 1919. Constantinople waiting for steamer. Visit family and friends and sights: Genoese tower in Galata, “the museum” and chat with the museum director, Halil Bey, who said “that Crosby Butler’s things at Sardis were all safe.” (60, 63)

Pencil drawing of Baluster in Galata Tower. (59r)

Two calling cards: Suleiman Hikmet, Capt. A.P. Hunter, Capt. Hunter gave me some fine war maps of Asia Minor, Gallipoli Peninsula, etc. (60r)

Newspaper clipping re the steamer Black-Arrow. (61r)

Insert: Four page informational booklet about passengers and availability of varia on S. S. Black Arrow. (Between 61r and 63)

27 November 1919. The Black Arrow arrives, prepare to board. (63)

29 November 1919. Board the Black Arrow. Stop at Smyrna for a few days and visit friends, then continue on to New York. (63, 64, 69)

Insert: Alice Calvert Bacon Légation de Suède a Constantinople, issued 18 May 1917.

Two calling cards, Fellow Passengers on the “Black Arrow”: Edward H. Beckert, Standard Oil Company and Fred V. Greene, Jr., Macandrews & Forbes Company. (71)

Welcome home radiogram to F.H.B. from Frederick Bacon, 26 December 1919. (71r)

11–28 December 1919. Two day stop in Gibraltar, resume trip, arrive in New York. “Finis” (2 ½ piastres bill glued below text.) (72)

Alice’s Turkish passport. (72r)

Office of British High Commission, Constantinople, 16 December 1918, authorizing Alice Calvert Bacon, American, to proceed to the Dardanelles. (No page number)

Typed page (carbon copy—not an official document). 10 December 1918. Philip Brown, American Ambassador in Constantinople, sends following message to the American Ambassador in Rome: Mrs. Frances Bacon desires news about her son, Major Frederick Calvert Bacon, American Expeditionary Forces in France. (No page number)

Photographs

Oran, Algeria, two postcards. (1r)

Gibraltar, Forecastle of the “Canada”. (2)

Oran, “Heather Chambers”. (2)

Oran, Algeria, two postcards. (2r)

Dardanelles, Kitchen, Alice’s “Belvedere”. (6)

Dardanelles, Garden Side. (6)

Antique Fragments. (7)

Alice, Edith. (7)

Dardanelles, Tennis Tournament (two photos). (8)

Dardanelles, Tea & Cakes. (9)

Dardanelles, The “Band”. (9)

Dardanelles, “Chanak”, Greek Clock Tower. (12)

Dardanelles, Chanak. (12)

Dardanelles, Wilby with Eveline & Rrodney. (13)

Dardanelles, British Unexploded Bomb Dropped from an Air Plane in 1917. (13)

Dardanelles, Tchemenlik Fort Inner Tower. (14)

Dardanelles, Casemates (Tchemenlik). (14)

Dardanelles, 15" Krupp Gun, Tchemenlik. (15)

Dardanelles, Winnie & Rodney. (15)

Dardanelles, Godfrey Whittal & Greek Refugee Boys. (16)

Dardanelles, Soldiers Beer Garden. (16)

Dardanelles, British Cemetery (two photos). (19)

Dardanelles, British Cemetery. (20)

Dardanelles, Grave of British Submarine Commander Lt. Com. Brodie. (20)

Dardanelles, Brighton Beach, Graveyard. (25)

Dardanelles, Anzac Cove. (25)

Dardanelles, Turkish Monument to Commemorate Driving the English off Gallipoli. (26)

Dardanelles, The Turkish Hut: Turks, Lt. Mahon, Maj. Lee. (26)

Dardanelles, Yeni shehr. (27)

Dardanelles, 6" German Gun, Yeni shehr. This brass wheel now on my writing table. (27)

Dardanelles, Ren-Keui. (31)

Dardanelles, Vassilakis House, Ren-Keui. (31)

Dardanelles, “British Property”: Keep Off. (32)

Dardanelles, View up the Straits from Ren Keui Hill. (32)

Proto Ionic Capital, Constantinople Museum. Large professional photograph. (32r)

Constantinople, Tchinli Kiosk, Maj. Steward Forbes. (33)

Constantinople, Proto Ionic Capital. (33)

Constantinople, Assos Sculptures from Temple. (34)

Constantinople, The Lion’s Breakfast. (34)

Constantinople Museum, Greek Athlete from Gymnasium at Tralles (Aidin). Large professional photograph. (34r)

Constantinople Museum, Marble Doors from Tomb at Langazi near Salonika. (35)

Constantinople Museum, Greek Stele. (35)

Constantinople, Shield from Rhodes. (36)

Constantinople, Court of St. Sophia. (36)

Sweet Waters of Europe, Head of the Golden Horn. Postcard. (36r)

Yedi Kouleh, Walls of Constantinople. Postcard. (36r)

Constantinople, Mosque at Scutari. (39)

Constantinople, Turkish Cemetery at Scutari. (39)

Scutari. Two photos. (40)

Scutari. (41)

Mr. Pallis. (41)

Turkish Gravestone at Dardanelles. Two photos. (42)

Dardanelles. Two photos. (43)

Dardanelles. Two photos. (44)

Gallipoli. (46)

Turkish Fountain – Dardanelles, Rodney Whittal. (46)

Krithia. (51)

British Graveyard near Krithia. (51)

Turkish Fort, Sedil Bahr. (52)

Sedil Bahr. (52)

Wreak of Massena, Cape Helles. (53)

15" Shell Hole near Krithia. (53)

Turkish Fort, Kilid Bahr. (54)

Stone Cannon Balls, Kalid Bahr. (54)

Street in Kalid Bahr. (55)

15" Krupp Gun, Hamidieh Fort. (55)

Constantinople, in Museum Yard Stamboul. (61)

Constantinople, Marble Base from Miletus. (61)

Smyrna, Landing Boats. (65)

Smyrna, Entrance to Wood House, Bournabat. (65)

Bournabat, Wood House. (66)

Bournabat, Antique Greek Jar. (66)

Bournabat, Whittall Garden (two photos). (67)

Bournabat, Whittall Garden. (68)

Bournabat, Edgar Whittall. (68)

Gibraltar, Dec. 1919 (two photos). (70)

Michael Pelone & “Jimmie”. (71)
 

(ALBUM XII)

FOLDER 1

In Archive folder: 78 page typed “No 4 Copy” of the “The Log of the Dorian” with edited text and penciled additions. (A very entertaining account. LWP)

Title page “The Log of the Dorian Being the Account of a Voyage in a Small Boat made in 1878 – 1879 from England to the Mediterranean by way of Belgium and Holland Up the Rhine to the Danube Down to the Black Sea and Through the Aegean to Athens from Personal Journals and Sketches by FRANCIS H. BACON”.

FOLDER 2

 “An Archaeological Expedition to Asia Minor Letters and Journals of Francis H. bacon 1881 – 1882 – 1883”. Eighty-six typed pages with penciled and ink additions made by Francis H. Bacon.

Handwritten on top title page: “This typed copy of the Assos Journals was made in 1934 by Mrs. Rosallind Reed; one for Seylaz and one for herself and this one for me now handed over to Alec.” At bottom of page: “Skip judiciously the longwinded places and remember this book was made for me and not for you. F.H.B.”

Plus a photocopy of above.

FOLDER 3

Old (Turkish) folder, 23 x 29 cm.

Typed label “An Archaeological Expedition to Asia Minor – Letters and Journals of Francis G. Bacon – 1881-1882-1883”.

Handwritten above label “To Alexander Maley with the affectionate regards of Francis H. Bacon, Dardanelles, June 1935”.

Handwritten below label “AND THE LOG OF THE DORIAN added for good measure”.

Glued inside folder is a reprint of order form for Archaeological Institute of America Investigations at Assos followed by eleven pages (presumably from “Investigations at Assos”:

“Investigations at Assos”, 1921, William Fenwick Harris.  Handwritten at bottom of page “Pish F.H.B.”, “(The above written by Harris without my knowledge FHB)”.

B/W drawing “A Vaulted Tomb”.

B/W drawing “Tomb of Publius Varius”.

“The Investigations at Assos” [3]. At top in pencil “I prepared this article for Art & Archaeology, got Crosby Butler to put his name to it and write the first page! Separate copies were made and sent out as circulars to get subscriptios for Assos FHB”. [page 3]

B/W drawing “Plan of the Agora of Assos”.

B/W drawing “Restoration of the Agora of Assos”.

Text and B/W photograph “Western Transverse Wall”. [6]

Text and B/W photograph “Large Ornamental Sarcophagus”. [7]

B/W drawing “Plan of Beginning of Street of Tombs”.

Text and B/W photographs “Marble Pedestal”, “Capital”. [11]

Text and B/W photograph “Dog Inscription”.

On inside back cover is handwritten “THE LOG OF THE DORIAN 1878-1879”.

FOLDER 4

Five photocopied articles about Francis H. Bacon from Technology Review, Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni magazine. FHB was Class of 1876: March 1932, November 1937, December 1937, February 1938, May 1940.

Photocopy of article: “Master Draftsmen, V: Francis H. Bacon” Pencil Points, September 1924, 38–54 (but only have pages 39, 51, 54).

FOLDER 5

“How Francis H. Bacon Escaped Got Away from the Dardanelles for the Long Dreamed of Visit to Athens: A Chronicle for the family and understanding friends”. 26 april – 11 May 1938. Eight typed pages (and photocopy). A very interesting account of his meetings with ASCSA staff (Blegan, Thompson, Hill, and others).