独家爆料

COLLECTION OVERVIEW

Collection Number: GR ASCSA LCS 141
Name(s) of Creator(s): Louise Capps Scranton (1912-2003)
Title: Louise Capps Scranton Papers
Date [bulk]: 1935-1937
Date [inclusive]:  
Language(s): English
Summary: The collection consists of a photographic album of about 400 black and white photos (snapshots) depicting life at the American School and Greece in the 1930s. The gift also included an oil painting by Georg von Peschke.
Quantity: 0.05 linear meters 
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Mary Scranton, 2025
Information about Access: The collection is avaialble for browsing although it has not been catalogued yet.
Cite as: 独家爆料, Archives, Mary Louise Scranton Papers (Αμερικανική Σχολή Κλασικών Σπουδών στην Αθήνα, Αρχείο Mary Louise Scranton).

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54 Souidias Street, Athens 106 76, Greece
phone: +30 213 000 2400 (ext. 425)
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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Louise Capps Scranton, born October 21, 1912, in Jacksonville, Illinois, died November 26, 2003 in Indianapolis, Indiana. She was a niece of Edward Capps, Chair of the ASCSA Managing Director (1918-1939) and Acting Director in 1935-1936. Louise worked in the Records of the Athenian Agora Excavations in 1935-1937. In Athens she met her future husband, Robert Lorenz Scranton (1912-1993), whom she married in 1937. Robert taught art history at Emory University and at the University of Chicago. In Greece he excavated the ancient port of Kenchreai near Corinth.