Details

Subject(s)

• Chapels—Greece [Browse]
• Church buildings—Greece—Volos—Photographs [Browse]
• Photographers—Greece—20th century [Browse]
• Landscapes—Greece [Browse]
• Greece—Photographs [Browse]
• Pelion Mountains (Greece)—Photographs [Browse]
• Volos (Greece)—Photographs [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Photographs [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Silver prints—Greece—20th century [Browse]
• Photograph albums—Greece—20th century [Browse]

Compiled/​Created

1900-1999.

Summary note

Consists of 12 silver prints (19.2 x 22.2 cm.) depicting Greek landscapes by Kōstas Zēmerēs. Included are general views of Volos, Pēlion, and the Pagasētikos gulf, as well as images of Byzantine churches and chapels in several villages, including one of Saint Modestos in Pēlion. Attached to the inside of the album back cover is a printed copy of a map showing routes to villages of Volos and Pēlion and an anthem for Pēlion written by the poet Geōrgios Drosinēs.

Notes

• Title from the cover.
• Bookplate attached to the inside of the album back cover provides information about the photographer's studio: "Phōto Zēmerē. Topalē 41-Volos," with a handwritten note beneath "Topalē 57."
• A dedication note on the inside of the album front cover reads: "Sua Eccelenza Dottore Jonathan Prato con sinceri auguri. [......] Volos Grecia."

Binding note

Album bound in brown textured synthetic material on hard boards with gold lettering reading "volos. PĒLION"; the spine is fastened by a cord.

Language note

Handwritten captions in Greek.

Source acquisition

Gift: Program in Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund. AM 2009-122.

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