TABLE 8-
PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION (PICTURE FILE)


General arrangement is the same as the slide collection, except that classification numbers are not used. Refer to all the previous tables for further information. Every major period begins with a general section of non-architectural subjects, filed in the same order as Table IV:

Materials and methods of construction
Bridges
Prototypical structures
Comparisons
Projects and drawings
Painting (non-architectural)
Sculpture (non-architectural)
Minor Arts
Graphic Arts
Interiors
Landscape
Stagecraft
Portraits
Cartoons
Competitions
Writings

Architectural sites are arranged according to the rest of this table. Subheadings are arranged alphabetically by place, then buildings, except in the 19th and 20th centuries, which are arranged by architect, then building. Each building is filed in the following order, which parallels Table III:

Plans
Sections, elevations, models, perspectives
Exterior views (photos, drawings, paintings, etc.)
Exterior details
Exterior parts of a complex (gates, grounds, fountains, etc.)
Interior views (regardless of media)
Interior details
Under construction views
Different states of a building
Life, times and inhabitants

Each city in Topography Section is filed in the following order, which parallels Table VI:

Plans
Aerial views
General views
Parts of City, arranged alphabetically:
parks, piazzas, squares, streets file together
Other building and city types

Photograph label format is as follows:

MAJOR HEADING MINOR HEADING
                    Place, 
                    Title, date
                    View description
Source. Image id.

GOTHIC FRANCE
       Chartres
       Cathedral, 1194+
       Distant view from southwest
Bony, Charles, French Cathedrals, pl.16. 97-123-003

The order of the periods and countries in the Photo Collection is as follows:

PREHISTORIC

General
Paleolithic
Neolithic

EGYPTIAN

General
Architecture

ANCIENT ORIENT

General
Sumerian
Chaldean (to 1290 BC)
Assyrian (1290-606 BC)
Babylonian (606-538 BC)
Persian (538-333 BC)
Sassanian (642-226 BC)
Phoenician
Hittite
Judean
Phyrgian
Pre-Islamic Arabian: Habalean, Yemenite, Achaemenian, Nabatean
Sea Peoples: Philistines
Indus Valley: Harappa, Mohenjo-Daro

ISLAMIC

General
Eastern Mediterranean: Syria, Iraq, Palestine, Armenia after 622
North Africa: Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Morocco
India
Persia/Iran
Spain
Turkey
Pakistan
Afghanistan
Sicily
Russia & Central Asia
Eastern Europe
China

SOUTHEAST ASIA

General
Bali
Borneo
Burma
Cambodia
Ceylon
Java
Laos
Malaya
Philippines
Sumatra
Thailand
Viet Nam

CHINESE & KOREAN

General
China
Korea
Mongolia
Tibet
Taiwant

JAPANESE

General
Architecture

OCEANIC

General
Australia
Melanesia
Micronesia
New Zealand
Polynesia

INDIA

General
Indian architecture (except Indian Islamic, Indian Colonial, and 19th & 20th Century India.)
Afghanistan & Himalayan Countries of Bhutan, Jammu, Kashmir, Nepal, and Sikkim

THE AMERICAS (Pre-Columbian, Meso-American, Pre-Colonial)

General
Eskimo
Northwest Coast
California
Southwest
Plains
Mound and East Coast
Mexico and Central America
South America

AEGEAN (to 1100 BC)

General
Minoan
Troy (Asia Minor)
Helladic

GREEK (1100 BC and after)

General
Greek architecture

ANCIENT EUROPE

General
Etruscan
Celtic
Scythian
Iberian
Anglo-Saxon
Viking
Other Germanic

ROMAN (500 BC to 350 AD)

General
Architecture

EARLY CHRISTIAN (to 560 AD, East and West)

General
Italian
Near East
North African, Coptic
Greece
Western Europe to 6th century

BYZANTINE (after 560 AD, East)

General 
Architecture

ROMANESQUE (Christian Europe, c. 560 - 1200)

General
Italy
France
Germany
Anglo-Norman
Low Countries
Spain and Portugal
Russia
Poland
Yugoslavia
Scandinavia
Switzerland
Near East

GOTHIC (late 12th C - early 16th C; varies by country)

General
Italy
France
Germany and Austria
England
Low Countries
Spain and Portugal
Russia
Yugoslavia
Scandinavia
Switzerland
Near East

RENAISSANCE (1400 - 1599; varies by country)

General
Italy (c.1420--)
France (c.1480--)
Germany & Austria (c.1500--)
England (c.1550--)
Low Countries (c.1550--)
Scandinavia
Spain 
Portugal
Russia
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Switzerland
Yugoslavia

17th and 18th CENTURIES (Baroque, Post-Renaissance, Mannerist)

General
Italy
France
Germany & Austria
England
Low Countries
Scandinavia
Spain
Portugal
Russia
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Switzerland
Yugoslavia

COLONIAL

North American 

General
New England
Middle Atlantic
Southern
Spanish (to 1850)
French (includes Louisiana, Missouri, etc.)
Russian
Canadian

Mexico, Central and South American
India
West Indies
Asia (other than India)
Africa

NINETEENTH CENTURY

19th C. begins as early as 1770 for some countries, e.g.,
            England, France, Germany, some India, U.S.A.
           (Note: there is no Late 19th C. USA in the Photo Collection)
19th C. begins c.1800 for all other countries

General
Architecture (See Table II for country order)

TWENTIETH CENTURY

General 
Architecture (See Table II for country order)

TOPOGRAPHY

For each section, use this order:

Whole world 
Continents
Countries
Cities within countries, alphabetical order

Prototypical
Prehistoric
Ancient Egyptian
Ancient Near East
Ancient Far East
Ancient Greek
Ancient Roman
Main Topography Section (formerly Medieval to Modern, now includes pre-medieval maps and plans)

MAPS (Continental, Intercontinental only)

MISCELLANEOUS

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