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Objects, images, and a proliferation of materialities engage bodies and minds, events and ideas, in ways both profound and subtle. Material objects, especially as they are activated in religious practices broadly conceived, are situated at the heart of MAVCOR. This Material Objects Archive offers an ever-expanding online gallery of such objects. We invite you to use it as a tool for thinking and teaching, researching and writing—and we welcome your suggestions and contributions to this collaborative enterprise.

In 2017, MAVCOR initiated the MAVCOR Digital Spaces Project, documenting sacred spaces via 360º panorama (360s) and high resolution giga-pixel (Zooms) photography. You can view all Digital Spaces Project 360s and Zooms here, or you can check the appropriate box in the Material Objects Archive search to view affiliated material objects.

Material Objects

Reproduction Holy Land Stereographs

Date:
1900s CE
Medium:
paper, chromolithography, stereographic projection
Tradition:
Protestant
Repository:
Private Collection of Rachel McBride Lindsey
Keywords:
Photography, Stereograph, Jerusalem, Holy Land
Triumphant Host of King Jesus

Keystone View Company, Singley, B. L.
Date:
1904 CE
Medium:
paper, stereographic projection
Tradition:
Protestant
Place of Origin:
Meadville
Repository:
Private Collection of Rachel McBride Lindsey
Keywords:
Photography, Stereograph, Parade, Jesus, United States, Missouri
Life of Christ Stereographs

Underwood & Underwood
Date:
1895-1910 CE
Medium:
paper, stereographic projection
Tradition:
Protestant
Repository:
Private Collection of Rachel McBride Lindsey
Keywords:
Life of Christ, Photography, Stereograph, Veronica, Calvary, Nativity
Life of Christ Stereographs

Underwood & Underwood
Date:
1895-1910 CE
Medium:
photographic materials, stereographic projection
Tradition:
Protestant
Repository:
Private Collection of Rachel McBridge Lindsey
Keywords:
Life of Christ, Photography, Stereograph, Crucifixion, Ascension, Resurrection, Flight into Egypt, Wedding at Cana, Veronica
Life of Christ Stereographs

Strohmeyer & Wyman
Date:
1890-1900 CE
Medium:
photographic materials, stereographic projection
Tradition:
Protestant
Place of Origin:
New York
Repository:
Private Collection of Rachel McBridge Lindsey
Keywords:
Life of Christ, Photography, Stereograph, Nativity, Crucifixion, Flight to Egypt, Ascension, Resurrection
Facial Reconstruction of Mary Magdalene

Date:
2015 CE
Tradition:
Roman Catholic
Subject:
Mary Magdalene
Keywords:
Mary Magdalene, Saints, Reconstruction, Relics
Church of Saint Francis of Assisi of Marcapata

Date:
18th century CE
Medium:
building stone, straw, adobe, thatching
Tradition:
Roman Catholic
Place of Origin:
Marcapata
Keywords:
Architecture, Church, Colonial, Peru, Mural Painting
Church of Saint John the Baptist of Ccatcca

Date:
18th century CE
Medium:
adobe, roofing tile, building stone, architecture
Tradition:
Roman Catholic
Place of Origin:
Ccatcca
Keywords:
Architecture, Church, Colonial, Peru, Mural Painting
Monument to E. S. Burd, St. Stephen’s Church, Philadelphia

Date:
October 1860 CE
Tradition:
Episcopalian
Place of Origin:
Philadelphia
Repository:
The Library Company of Philadelphia
Subject:
Edward Shippen Burd
Keywords:
Memorial, Monument, Death, Sculpture
View of the Interior of St. Stephen’s Church

Date:
ca. 1860 CE
Medium:
oil paint, canvas, painting
Tradition:
Episcopalian
Place of Origin:
Philadelphia
Repository:
Vestry house, St. Stephen’s Church, Philadelphia.
Keywords:
Church, Painting, Architecture
Portrait of Edward Shippen Burd

Date:
1830s CE
Medium:
paint, painting
Tradition:
Episcopalian
Place of Origin:
Philadelphia
Subject:
Edward Shippen Burd
Keywords:
Portrait, Painting
Effigy Tomb of Queen Louise of Prussia

Rauch, Christian Daniel
Date:
ca. 1810-1814 CE
Medium:
marble
Tradition:
Protestant
Place of Origin:
Rome
Repository:
Mausoleum, Charlottenburg Castle, Potsdam
Subject:
Queen Louise of Prussia
Keywords:
Death, Monument, Royalty, Queen, Memorial, Tomb, Sculpture