É. Apor , H. Wang (ed.): Catalogue of the Collections of Sir Aurel Stein in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Comp. by John Falconer, Ágnes Kárteszi, Ágnes Kelecsényi, Lilla Russell-Smith.

FALCONER John and RUSSELL-SMITH Lilla - Catalogue of Photographs Taken or Collected by Sir Aurel Stein

JOHN FALCONER - LILLA RUSSELL-SMITH Sciences (and such duplication has been noted in the catalogue where traced), the Budapest collections add an important series of images to Stein's photographic record not available elsewhere. Perhaps the most noteworthy is the very extensive documentation of his First Central Asian Expedition of 1900-1901. No photographs from this expedition are held in the British Library, while the Royal Asiatic Society holds only the prints subsequently reproduced in Ancient Khotan. The HAS photographs from the 1900-1901 expedition are thus the most comprehensive existing record of this journey, including almost all the subsequently published photographs in addition to many previously unknown views and object photographs, and phototheodolite panoramas made for surveying purposes. As well as photographs relating to his professional pursuits, the HAS collection holds a wider range of images relating to Stein's personal life than exists in most other archives: the albums containing portraits of family and friends and holidays in England and Europe thus offer an insight into a little-glimpsed side of the explorer's life. Catalogue arrangement The collection is in the form of albums and loose prints, the latter having been roughly arranged in thematic groupings and stored in envelopes. Some re-arrangement of this loose material has been undertaken in the course of cataloguing and photographs clearly belonging together have been transferred and given new collection numbers. The photographs as presently catalogued now comprise 33 numbered groups, plus an appendix listing Stein's original negatives stored separately in the Microfilm Department. A number of the groups consist of multiple parts. For example, Stein Photo 5 consists of three albums plus a miscellaneous batch of loose prints, and the total collection thus comprises Stein Photo 5/1-4. Individual print numbers within collections are enclosed in round brackets: thus print 30 in album 2 of Stein Photo 5 is cited as Stein Photo 5/2(30). Stein's own negative reference numbers, where known, are listed within square brackets after the print captions. Where available, Stein's own captions to his photographs have been quoted although abbreviations have in general been expanded for the sake of clarity. In the case of uncaptioned photographs for which published versions exist, titles have been taken from the published version. For this reason in most cases Stein's own spelling of place names has been retained in the catalogue and index. 160