About the BSA SPHS Image Collection
The SPHS photographic collection was amassed by The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies between 1891 and 1967 through the donation of images. It contained negatives, both glass and film in a variety of sizes, photographic prints and glass lantern slides. It contains both original and copy negatives. Index cards with small contact prints served as finding aids for the collection. It was designed as an image reference collection where images could be duplicated as either prints or slides and sold or lent to members.
The BSA SPHS Collection is part of the original SPHS photographic collection, selected by donors who were associated with the BSA or images of topographic interest, particularly in areas the BSA was known to have worked. The remainder of the extant SPHS collection went to the Hellenic Literary and Historical Archives (MIET-ELIA) in Athens. Documentation for this collection consists of 5 Negative registers (held in the SPHS offices in London), the published catalogues or accession lists of lantern slides in The Journal of Hellenic Studies, the Minute Book December 1949-January 1983 for the Photographic and Filmstrip Committee of the SPHS (held in the SPHS Library in London) and information contained on extant index cards.
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sunium from sea".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: Monument of Philopappos".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Cyprus: Nikosia. S.Sophia, interior".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Cyprus: Episkopi from W".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Cyprus: Kurion. Acropolis 1895".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: monument of Agrippa".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Corinth: entrance to Acrocorinthus".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Corinth: Acrocorinthus: top".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Corinth: Acrocorinthus: top".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Stiris: monastery of St. Luke: Helikon behind".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Stiris: monastery of St. Luke: courtyard".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Stiris: monastery of St. Luke: church".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Stiris: monastery of St. Luke: N. wall".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Stiris: monastery of St. Luke: interior".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Knossos: site from the south".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Knossos: site from the south, nearer view"
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Knossos: long gallery with pithoi in situ".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Knossos: reconstruction of end of Throne Room".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: Agora: Athena Archegitis gate".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens, sometime mosque".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: Asklepieion, view of the boundary stone".
Part of a group of images donated by the Argonaut Camera Club, taken on excursions and cruises in Greece and Asia Minor. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Cnossos: drainage system".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "View: Dipylon, Acropolis in background".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Delos: view from shrine of Apollo towards Rheneia".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Delos: view of the lions".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Delos: phallic monument".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: Erechteion: N. porch. (as restored)".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: Erechtheion: N. porch, base of column".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: Erechtheion: ceiling of N. porch".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: Oil market and Tower of the Winds".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: Acropolis walls with old columns".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: Tower of Winds".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: Peristyle of Parthenon".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Arcadian coin group by Damaphon".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Aegina: temple from S.W.".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Nauplia: town and fortress".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: Propylaea and cave from the N.".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Theatre of Dionysus, chair in".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: Parthenon: N. Colonnade".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: Acropolis: N side".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: Olympieion: basis of fallen column".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sword blade from Mykenae: lions".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Cnossos: Crete. Throne room in course of excavations".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: general view. Callirhoe".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Peloponnese: Tiryns, N. wall and Postern".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: monument of Thrasyllos (present state)".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Asia Minor: Hittite monuments. Rock sculptures at Fraktin".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Ancient Greek wine press".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Parnes: View of the mouth of the cave (nearer)".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: Choragic monument of Lysicrates".