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INVENTORY OF THE HALSTED B. VANDER POEL CAMPANIAN
COLLECTION, circa 1570-1997
2002.M.16
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Title: Halsted B. Vander Poel Campanian collection
Date (inclusive): circa 1570-1997
Collection number: 2002.M.16
Creator:
VanderPoel, Halsted
B.
Extent:
circa 643 linear ft.
Repository:
Getty Research Institute
Research Library
Special Collections and Visual Resources
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688
Abstract: The Halsted B. Vander Poel Campanian
collection is an archive devoted to the historiography of archaeological
investigations conducted around the Bay of Naples, with particular emphasis on
Pompeii. Comprised of manuscripts, photographs, maps, plans, drawings and the
papers of Matteo Della Corte and Tatiana Warscher, it is a comprehensive
resource for researching the excavations at Pompeii and the surrounding
area.
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Language: Collection material in
English,
Italian,
French,
German, and
Russian.
Open for use by qualified researchers.
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Library Rights and Reproductions
Halsted B. Vander Poel Campanian Collection, circa 1570-1997, Getty
Research Institute, Research Library, Accession no. 2002.M.16
The collection was donated by Halsted B. Vander Poel in 2002.
Ann Harrison rehoused the collection and created the series
arrangement and finding aid in 2006.
Over 1,000 books and individual periodical issues from the collection
were separated to the library. A search using the phrase "VanderPoel" while
selecting the index "Provenance" from the pull-down menu in the Getty online
library catalog will retrieve a list of these separated materials, as well as
the Vander Poel collection-level record and records for books remaining in the
archive. Similar searches using "Della Corte" and "Warsher" in the Provenance
index will retrieve books from these scholars' libraries.
Biographical / Historical Note
Halsted Billings Vander Poel (variant form VanderPoel) was born in
1911 at the family estate in New York City. He graduated from Yale University
with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1935 and then served in the Navy in World
War II. After the war, he married, moved to Washington, D.C. and worked in the
Truman and Eisenhower administrations.
While still at Yale, Vander Poel developed a strong interest in
eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English literature and soon began collecting
books and manuscripts. Vander Poel quickly became established as a serious
collector, and broadened his range to include Old Master paintings, American
portraits and English furniture and silver.
In 1956, Vander Poel moved to Rome. There he was involved in various
cultural and educational projects, including the restoration of frescoes in
Roman churches, and the administration of the Keats-Shelley Memorial House at
the Spanish Steps. In 1964, he was one of the founders of St. Stephen's School,
an American preparatory school in Rome.
In Rome, Vander Poel met two archaeologists, Matteo Della Corte, a
former Director of Excavations at Pompeii, and Tatiana Warscher, a leading
historiographer of the site, and through them became fascinated with Pompeii.
For the next forty years, Vander Poel devoted considerable time and financial
resources to creating an extensive research library and archive on the
archaeological investigations in Pompeii.
In 1997 Vander Poel returned to the United States for health reasons.
He died in Washington D.C. on June 27, 2003.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Vander Poel Campanian collection is a research archive assembled
for the study of the history of the excavations at Pompeii and to a lesser
extent, at Herculaneum and Stabiae. It represents the culmination of forty
years of investigations by Vander Poel. He collected rare books, prints,
photographs, maps and other original documents. He preserved the papers of
Matteo Della Corte and Tatiana Warscher, left to him as bequests upon their
deaths. He sponsored excavations and commissioned mapping and photography of
the site. He funded and led a research team known as the Research in Campanian
Archaeology (RICA) Group. His numerous projects, many still in the planning
stages, included the production and distribution of the
Corpus Topographicum Pompeianum, a
multi-volume work on the history of the excavations at Pompeii; the production
of updated editions of important research texts; and documentation of the
Pompeian material in the Archaeological Museum at Naples.
Until recently, the excavations at Pompeii have been poorly documented
and the documentation that does exist has been dispersed throughout various
European depositories and private collections. Within this documentation, there
is conflicting nomenclature and enumeration of locations. Vander Poel's
contribution to scholarship through the creation of his Campanian collection
was the important, if not glamorous, task of collecting this dispersed
information and supervising the creation of tools, ranging from concordances of
house numbers to new maps of the site, which facilitate the study of
Pompeii.
This assembling of resources for the study of Pompeii accounts for the
extremely broad date range of the collection. Vander Poel worked on his
Campanian projects and collected the material in the period roughly from 1958
to 1997. The broad date range of the collection, circa 1570-1997, reflects the
dates of the materials, both original works and reproductions, within it.
The highlights of the Campanian collection include Matteo Della
Corte's field notes, Tatiana Warscher's photographic documentation of Pompeii,
the unpublished notes of Vander Poel's excavations of the Casa di Meleagro,
manuscripts of the unpublished portions of the
Corpus Topographicum Pompeianum, and the
extensive scholarly documentation, both textual and visual, of Pompeii
assembled by Vander Poel.
Throughout this finding aid, all photographic prints and negatives are
black-and-white, unless indicated as color. The house numbering used in the
finding aid follows the current system of numeration for the site of Pompeii,
see Andrew Wallace-Hadrill,
Houses and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum (Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1994), xix. The journal abbreviations are those
standardly used in the field of classical archaeology. A list of journal
abbreviations and full bibliographic citations for works cited briefly in the
finding aid are to be found in Laurentino García y García,
Nova Bibliotheca Pompeiana: 250 anni di bibliografia
archeologica
(Rome: Bardi, 1998).
Arrangement
The collection is arranged in ten series:
Series I.
Matteo Della Corte papers, 1890-1997
;
Series
II. Tatiana Warscher papers, 1912-1997
;
Series
III. Vander Poel excavations at Pompeii, 1958-1982
;
Series
IV.
Corpus Topographicum Pompeianum
production materials, 1776-1996
;
Series V.
New editions of early archaeological publications on Pompeii, 1796-1989
;
Series
VI. Documentation of objects in the Museo archeologico nazionale di Napoli,
1960-1971
;
Series
VII. Research in Campanian Archaeology (RICA) research materials,
1724-1996
;
Series
VIII. Objects in the Campanian collection, 1960-1977
;
Series
IX. Administrative materials, 1980-1992
;
Series X. Non-Campanian material, 1570-1996.
Della Corte,
Matteo
Fiorelli, Giuseppe,
1823-1895
Hase, Friedrich-Wilhelm
von
Helbig, Wolfgang,
1839-1915
Johnston-Lavis, Henry
James
Maiuri, Amedeo,
1886-1963
Mazois, François,
1783-1826
Murray, Margaret
Alice
Pais, Ettore,
1856-1939
Petrie, W. M. Flinders
(William Matthew Flinders), Sir, 1853-1942
Scifoni, Guido
Soprano, Pietro
Spinazzola,
Vittorio
Warsher,
Tatiana
Winckelmann, Johann
Joachim, 1717-1768
Architecture,
Domestic—Italy—Pompeii (Extinct city)
Architecture,
Roman—Italy—Pompeii (Extinct city)
Excavations
(Archaeology)—Italy—Gravina di Puglia Region
Excavations
(Archaeology)—Italy-Herculaneum (Extinct city)
Excavations
(Archaeology)—Italy—Pompeii (Extinct city)
Excavations
(Archaeology)—Italy—Stabiae (Extinct city)
Inscriptions,
Latin
Mosaics,
Roman—Italy—Pompeii (Extinct city)
Mural painting and
decoration, Roman—Italy—Pompeii (Extinct city)
Museo archeologico
nazionale di Napoli
Volcanoes Italy
Gravina di Puglia
(Italy)
Herculaneum (Extinct
city)
Pompeii (Extinct
city)
Pompeii (Extinct
city)—Aerial photographs
Pompeii (Extinct
city)—Antiquities
Pompeii (Extinct
city)—Bibliography
Pompeii (Extinct
city)—Buildings, structures, etc.
Pompeii (Extinct
city)—Discovery and exploration
Pompeii (Extinct
city)—Photographs
Stabiae (Extinct
city)
Vesuvius
(Italy)
Address books
Aerial
photographs
Audiotape
Certificates
Clippings
Color slides
Concordances
Copy prints
Correspondence
Drawings
Indices
Lantern slides
Manuscripts for
publication
Maps
Medals
Microfilms
Negatives
(photographic)
Newsletters
Notebooks
Notes
Offprints
Photobooks
Photocopies
Photograph
albums
Photographic
prints
Photomosaic
maps
Plans
(drawings)
Plans (maps)
Postcards
Prints (visual
works)
Proofs (printed
matter)
Reprographic
copies
Sculpture (visual
work)
Tracings
Translations
Typescripts
Watercolors
(paintings)
Aldanov, Mark
Aleksandrovich, 1886-1957
Barnabei, Felice,
1842-1922
Barré, Louis,
1799-1857
Berberova, Nina
Nikolaevna
Della Corte,
Matteo
Della Valle, Guido,
1884-
Falkener, Edward,
1814-1896
Fiorelli, Giuseppe,
1823-1895
García y García,
Laurentino
Gell, William, Sir,
1777-1836
Hase, Friedrich-Wilhelm
von
Helbig, Wolfgang,
1839-1915
House, John
Johnston-Lavis, Henry
James
Kelsey, Francis W.,
1858-1927
Korsak, V.
1884-1944
La Porta,
Armando
Labruzzi, Carlo, ca.
1765-1818
Maiuri, Amedeo,
1886-1963
Mau, August,
1840-1909
Mazois, François,
1783-1826
Minto, Antonio
Murray, Margaret
Alice
Niccolini, Fausto,
1812?-1886
Niccolini, Felice, b.
1816?
Nowotny,
Eduard
Onorato, Giovanni
Oscar
Pais, Ettore,
1856-1939
Piranesi, Giovanni
Battista, 1720-1778
Rossini, Luigi,
1790-1857
Rostovtzeff, Michael
Ivanovitch, 1870-1952
Roux, Henri, fl. 19th
cent.
Scifoni, Guido
Sommer, Giorgio,
1834-1914
Soprano, Pietro
Spinazzola, Vittorio,
1863-1943
Ternite, Wilhelm,
1786-1871
Van Buren, A.W.
Vander Poel, Halsted
B.
VanderPoel, Halsted
B.
Waele, Jos de
Warscher,
Tatiana
Warsher,
Tatiana
Zahn, Wilhelm,
1800-1871
Corpus Topographicum Pompeianum