George A. Reisner, A History of the Giza Necropolis Volume I, A History of the Giza Necropolis Volume I (Selections)

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1. T. R. D. Greenlees (Oxford), 1924-6.
2. A. B. Hawes (Harvard), 1925-6.
3. H. P. Clawson, 1927-8.
4. Hansmartin Handrick, 1929-39.
5. Alexander Floroff, 1934-9.
6. Francis Olcott Allen (Princeton and Chicago), 1938-9.

Many of the persons listed above have directed field work at other sites for the expedition, particularly Earle Rowe, Lyman Story, L. C. West, and W. G. Kemp.

The present volume has been prepared for the press by the following members of the staff of the expedition:

1. My chief assistant, W. S. Smith, who has made a special study of the sculptures and who has prepared the drawings of reliefs which appear in the appendixes.
2. F. O. Allen, who has specialized in the inscriptions.
3. Miss Evelyn Perkins, who has given me assistance in studying the records and in the preparation of the text.
4. Miss Elizabeth Eaton, of the Egyptian Department of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts who has prepared many drawings of reliefs, most of which will appear in the following volumes, but a few of which are included in the appendixes.
5. Alexander Floroff, who made the maps and many of the drawings.
6. Hansmartin Handrick, who has made the drawings of objects for the volume.
7. Nicholas Melnikoff, who made tracings of the drawings for the printer and recorded reliefs in several chapels which will appear in Volume II.
8. Mohammed Said Ahmed, assistant surveyor and head-reis.
9. Mahmud Said Ahmed, assistant publication secretary.

In addition to these members of the staff, a number of Egyptian photographers trained by the expedition have taken almost all of the photographs used in Volume I. The photographs from the beginning have been one of the most important records made by the expedition. In the years of the Hearst Expedition the director of the excavations took his own photographs and developed them at night. When I was doing this work I had as assistant in the darkroom Said Ahmed Said and found that he had learned the process of developing the negatives and fixing them. In 1901 I turned over the darkroom work to Said Ahmed. By 1906 I had trained this boy to take the photographs and after that I turned over to him all the work of photography. He trained other boys and we had a succession of peasant boys who acted as photographers: Bedawi Ahmed, Mahmud Shadduf, Bishari Mahfud, Mustapha Abu-el-Hamd, Mohammedani Ibrahim (1912-39), and Dahi Ahmed. Other boys learned the work in the darkroom. The excellence of the plates in this volume is due to the work of the Egyptians trained by the expedition as photographers.

The expedition acknowledges its debt to the staff of reises and the workmen who carried out the excavations at Giza. The organization of the force of workmen was highly developed early in the work at Giza to carry out methods devised by me in consultation with the head-reises. The methods of excavation will be explained in another place. The head-reises working at Giza were as follows:

1. Salman el Firnisi, 1902-4.
2. Mahmud Ahmed Said, 'El-Meyyet', 1905-7, 1926-31.
3. Said Ahmed Said, 1908-26, the most gifted foreman who ever worked for the expedition.