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: "Road to Achmet Aga Mycenae".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Argyro Kastro valley".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Cnossos, Neolithic house SE of palace".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Cnossos, drain below E terrace (to catch roof water)".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Cnossos, SE corner of palace".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Cnossos, SE corner of palace".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Cnossos, paved way from modern road to theatral area".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Cnossos, antechamber to throne room".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Cnossos, grand staircase".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Cnossos, Hall of colonnades".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Cnossos, cypress avenue NE of palace".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Cnossos, W magazines: W court".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Cnossos, magazine off long corridor".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Cnossos, long corridor gypsum blocks curled by sun".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Cnossos, paved way for modern road to theatral area".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Cnossos, NE corner of Palace looking seaward".
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: "Crete looking towards White Mountains from Vrysais".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Tiryns looking towards Argos".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Lambiri Gulf of Corinth between Patras & Aegion looking NE".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sidyma".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "R. Lousios Valley (Arc.) just above Dimitsana".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "View from Paravda shewing E part of L. Agrinion".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Alifaradin".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Rhodiapolis".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Lakes Agrimion and Angelocastro from near town of Agrinion".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "View on road from Dimitsana to Stemnitsa looking W".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "View near Salona, Italy". The entry has been struck out in the SPHS register, presumably deaccessioned.
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Salamis view towards Ambelaki".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Keramitsa (Epirus) near. gorge of the Filiatiko".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Lake Rivios (Ac.) from W".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Alpheios Valley running from R to L from site of Phanari".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Drepano near Suda Crete".
The original description in the SPHS register is blank.
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "R. Achelous from near site of Stratos looking NE".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Isle of Kalamo from Kastri near Alyzia (Ac.)".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Buraikos Valley (Achaea) near Megaspilio".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Buraikos Valley (Achaea) looking down stream from same spot [as C 2331]".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Euboea Mt. Kandili from NE of Achmet Aga".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Epirus looking towards Vostina from branch road near Delvinaki".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "View from summit of Parnes looking N".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Ithaca, entrance to bay of Polis".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Thermopylae, Mt. Oeta from below Boudonitsa".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Cnossos, road from. stepped intervals for drainage".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Cnossos, Villa Ariadne".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Cnossos, underground fountain chamber".
Part of a collection of images from Dawkins' travel to Pontus to investigate dialects in 1914. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Monastery of S George Peristerreona, near Trebizond".
Part of a collection of images from Dawkins' travel to Pontus to investigate dialects in 1914. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Monastery of S John at Imera, near Trebizond".