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: "Rim of Mycenaean Bronze Vessel in Cyprus Mus. ( B. S. A. XVIII pl. VIII)".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Handle of Mycenaean Bronze Vessel in Cyprus Mus. ( B. S. A. XVIII pl. VIII)".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: Ceramicus, shewing Hegeso Koroibos & monument".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Ορεος Κεραμεικου inscr".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Cnossos, grand staircase, angle".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Cnossos, wall of little palace".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Cnossos, gesso relief, youth with feather headdress".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "H. Triada: drainage system".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Agia Triadha: drainage system".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Agia Triada: palace room".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Agia Triada: Late Minoan palace found superimposed on Middle Minoan"
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Hagia Triada: general view from E.N.E."
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Hagia Triada: stair to upper floor, S. of 'men's' Megaron, seen from W".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Hagia Triada: 'Megaron of the Men' seen from E".
The original description in the SPHS Catalogue reads: "Zakro: painted vase with sea-scene".
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: "Ithaca: Castle of Odysesus from sea".
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: "Ithaca: Castle of Odysesus, nearer view".
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: "Ithaca: Cyclopean wall half way up Aetos".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Ithaca: view from Mt. Aetos. Northward".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Eleusis, pediment + architrave reconstructed".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Eleusis, altar with Eleusinian torches: other fragments".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Eleusis".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sunium".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Tiryns: general view E. side".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Tiryns from SE".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Delphi, Sarcophagus front view".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Delphi, Sarcophagus end view".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Epidaurus, theatre reconstruction of arcade".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Epidaurus, great colonnade".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Epidaurus".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Tiryns, Stairway in Western Wall".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Epidaurus, panel from roof of tholos (in Museum)".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Tiryns".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Tiryns".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Tiryns".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sunium".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sunium".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Delphi: theatre".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Delphi, temple of Apollo".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Delphi, the theatre, the auditorium".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Delphi, Stoa of the Athenians".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Delphi, Temple of Athena".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Bassae: Temple. Mt. Ithome in distance".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Peloponnese: Tiryns, N. wall and Postern".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Tiryns: staircase". A commercial image from the English Photographic Company.
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Attica: Pireus. Fortification of Acte. (coast)".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: Acropolis Museum, draped female figure".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Acropolis: Museum. An archaic bear".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Acropolis: Museum. A sphinx & a lady (archaic)".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: Oil market and Tower of the Winds".