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.
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: "Troy: Roman theatre".
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: "Troy: crossing of the Scamander".
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: "Tempe: Cliff".
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: "Troy: remains of first city".
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: "Tempe scenery".
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: "Tempe scenery".
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: "Tempe scenery".
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: "Thermopylae: junction of Spercheios & Asopus".
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: "Thermopylae: great ravine".
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: "Thermopylae: hot springs".
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: "Thermopylae: Phocian wall, looking North".
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: "Thermopylae: possible base of Leonidas monument".
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: "Marathon: poppies, on plain of".
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: "Tempe: wood near".
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: "Tempe: Peneus, scenery".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Constantinople".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Coins of Mytilene, cf. J.H.S. 38. p.10 fig. 3. Heads of Sappho".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Tenos".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Tenos".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mykonos".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Olympia: bases of the nike of Paionios".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Messene: circular tower".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mycenae: postern in wall".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Aulis".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Chalcis".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Eretria: the theatre".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Eretria: the theatre, passage leading from orchestra to skene".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: Parthenon from N. W."
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: Ακαδνμεια. Academy of Sciences".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: Olympeion looking towards monument of Philopappos".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: street of tombs".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: Piraeus, Zea (old nomenclature)".
Constantinople: Interior of Ayia Sophia showing south gallery. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Constantinople".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "View". A strip of white tape was placed over the inked caption and the new caption ("View") written over, not specifying the location or source.
Excavations at the tholos tomb of Kirk Killisse (Thrace) in 1911 by F.W. Hasluck. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Tholos tomb at Kirk Kilissi (Thrace) from front".
Excavations at the tholos tomb of Kirk Killisse (Thrace) in 1911 by F.W. Hasluck. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Tholos tomb at Kirk Kilissi (Thrace) side view".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sarcophogus of Alexander. Constantinople Mus, detail of".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Stele of Kephiraphor".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Grotesque terracotta in the form of an old woman".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Peloponnesus: Sphacteria, cliffs looking N".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Peloponnesus: Corinth, old temple & Acrocorinthus looking E".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mistra: Church of Pantanossa".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Cyprus: Byzantine & Gothic. Nikosia, desecrated church".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Cyprus: Byzantine & Gothic. Famagusta Cathedral".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Cyprus: Byzantine & Gothic. Famagusta cathedral".
Part of a group of images from the 1891 travels of Hogarth and Munro in Anatolia as described in Hogarth's 1896 book, A Wandering Scholar in the Levant. The original description in the SPHS catalogue reads: "Asia Minor: Hittite monuments. Stele from Bor now in Constantinople".
Part of a group of images from the 1891 travels of Hogarth and Munro in Anatolia as described in Hogarth's 1896 book, A Wandering Scholar in the Levant. The original description in the SPHS catalogue reads: "Asia Minor: Hittite monuments. Stone at Kolibolu Yaila".
Part of a group of images from the 1891 travels of Hogarth and Munro in Anatolia as described in Hogarth's 1896 book, A Wandering Scholar in the Levant. The original description in the SPHS catalogue reads: "Asia Minor: Hittite monuments. Statue at Palanka Chieflik".
Part of a group of images from the 1891 travels of Hogarth and Munro in Anatolia as described in Hogarth's 1896 book, A Wandering Scholar in the Levant. The original description in the SPHS catalogue reads: "Asia Minor: Hittite monuments. relief fr. Arslan Tepe nr. Melitene (in Constantinople)".
Part of a group of images from the 1891 travels of Hogarth and Munro in Anatolia as described in Hogarth's 1896 book, A Wandering Scholar in the Levant. The original description in the SPHS catalogue reads: "Asia Minor: Comana Cappadociae. Theatre".