Lindsley Foote Hall papers
Scope and Contents
Collection includes diaries, 31 volumes, 1901-1969; transcripts of diary entries, 1903, 1910, 1913-1915, 1919-1921; correspondence, 1840-1969, including letters from Ethel G. Collier; account books and notebook, 1905-1968; stamp collection; scrapbook, 1947-1953; ephemera.
Dates
- 1840-1969
Creator
- Hall, Lindsley F. (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
The Oregon Historical Society owns the materials in the Research Library and makes available reproductions for research, publication, and other uses. The Society does not necessarily hold copyright to all materials in the collections. In some cases, permission for use may require seeking additional authorization from copyright owners.
Biographical note
Lindsley Foote Hall (1883-1969) was an archaeologist and Egyptologist from Portland, Oregon, who worked for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, New York, and was part of the expedition that discovered the tomb of King Tutankhamen in Egypt in 1922-1923.
Extent
2.6 Cubic Feet (3 card file boxes (12x8x5); 2 legal document cases; 1 letter document case; 1 slim letter document case; 1 flat box (12x15x3))
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Materials relating to the life and career of Egyptologist Lindsley Foote Hall.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Majority of transcripts and eulogy were found among Thomas Vaughan's papers in 2017.
Creator
- Hall, Lindsley F. (Person)
- Title
- Guide to the Lindsley Foote Hall papers
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- 2012
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is written in English.
Repository Details
Part of the Oregon Historical Society Research Library Repository
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