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Taylor Garrison Belcher
1920–1990 · United States
Diplomat. Married to Edith Belcher (née Anthony).
Life and work
- 1950–1970With his wife Edith made colour slides of Cyprus; Salamis, Kourion, Nea Paphos, Kouklia, Vouni, Soli and the excavations at Kition appear among the 61 slides CVAR holds (the catalogue does not say which of the two took each slide)
In the Archive
61 items61 photographs. A selection is shown here.
Photograph: 1950–70. pht_TEB_0022. "Salamis". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: 1950–70. pht_TEB_0023. "Salamis". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: 1950–70. pht_TEB_0024. "Salamis". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: 1950–70. pht_TEB_0025. "Columns at the ancient site of Salamis". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: 1967. pht_TEB_0026. "Theatre at Salamis". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: 1950–70. pht_TEB_0048. "Mosaic in Panagia tis Angeloktistis". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: 1950–70. pht_TEB_0063. "Morphou Bay from Vouni". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: 1950–70. pht_TEB_0064. "Vouni Palace". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: 1950–70. pht_TEB_0065. "Vouni Palace". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: 1950–70. pht_TEB_0083. "Mosaic at Paphos Archaeological Park". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: 1950–70. pht_TEB_0084. "Mosaic at Paphos Archaeological Park". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: 1950–70. pht_TEB_0085. "Mosaic at Paphos Archaeological Park". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized.
Connections
2 peopleFamily
- Married to Edith Belcher (née Anthony)1942
Colleagues & contacts
- Met Vassos Karageorghispossibly
Sources
- 1. (2026). “From the diaries of US Consul General Taylor Belcher and Edith Belcher (24 May 1958)”. Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation, History Today blog. Online
- 2. (2026). “Taylor and Edith Belcher Collection, albums I, II, IV and V (colour slides)”. Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation, online catalogue, Nicosia. Online
- 3. (2026). “Taylor G. Belcher”. Wikipedia. Online
- 4. (2026). “Taylor G. Belcher (Q7689970)”. Wikidata. Online
- 5. (2026). “Belcher, Taylor Garrison, Ambassador to Cyprus and Peru”. US Department of State, Office of the Historian, People. Online
- 6.Parker T. Hart (1990). Two NATO Allies at the Threshold of War: Cyprus, a Firsthand Account of Crisis Management, 1965-1968. Online