Archaeological Archives at the Getty Research Institute: The Halsted B. Vander Poel Campanian Collection

In 2002 the Getty Research Institute (GRI) acquired the Halsted B. Vander Poel Campanian Collection, a research archive for the history of excavations at Pompeii, and, to a lesser extent, Herculaneum and other sites located around the Bay of Naples. Assembled from 1958 to 1997 by Vander Poel and his research team, the collection comprises 643 linear ft. of material, which is housed in 661 boxes, 151 flat-file folders, and 32 tubes of rolled material. The collection includes scholars’ archives..