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: "Salonika. St Sophia eikonostasis".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens. The Parthenon floodlit. Interior, North-Eastern angle".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens. The Parthenon floodlit from North-West".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Assos from the sea".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Assos the harbour".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Halicarnassus (Budrum) coats of arms in the fortress".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Halicarnassus (Budrum) coats of arms in the fortress".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Delphi: Athenian treasury, view towards Phaidriades showing back of treasury".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Delphi stoa of the Athenians and Phaidriades".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Rhodes, the harbour".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Brusa; the city with Mt. Olympus behind from the citadel".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Thera, landing".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Thera lava cliffs with town above".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Delphi, Marmaria".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mistra, church practically rebuilt 1934".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Patmos, view from the monastery".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Patmos, the harbour".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Cos, Roman theatre".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Cos, Asklepieion capital + block of architrave".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Rhodes, papal arms between those of France and England".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Rhodes, thermal station near Camirus".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Patmos, view on roof of monastery".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Thera, the Kaimeni islands turned (?) up in centre of crater".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Thera, panoramic view of crater".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Thera, panoramic view of crater".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Monevmasia, church of S. Sophia".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens, Acropolis from North-East".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens, Acropolis from South-West".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Wrestling scenes from Beni-Hassan".
One of a group of images relating to the British School at Athens: buildings and setting, scholars and students. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Portrait (snap) of Duncan Mackenzie".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Corinth. The Lechaeum Road looking North, Corinth, T. fig. 97".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Olynthos, bathroom of a house".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Three views of Scamander Valley by Walter Leaf".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Paros. Monastery of Longovarda".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Paros. Monastery of Longovarda".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Paros. Monastery of Longovarda".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Cape Malea, sunset". The negative register lists this as missing, but it had been mis-filed as C 6319.
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "LMII vase".
Part of the collection of images, 1906-1910, of the British School at Athens excavations at Sparta, Laconia. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sparta: sherds".
Part of the collection of images, 1906-1910, of the British School at Athens excavations at Sparta, Laconia. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sparta: sherds".
Part of the collection of images, 1906-1910, of the British School at Athens excavations at Sparta, Laconia. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sparta: 3 handled jars".
Part of the collection of images, 1906-1910, of the British School at Athens excavations at Sparta, Laconia. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sparta: vases".
Part of the collection of images, 1906-1910, of the British School at Athens excavations at Sparta, Laconia. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sparta: sherd & bowl".
Part of the collection of images, 1906-1910, of the British School at Athens excavations at Sparta, Laconia. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sparta: bronze pins".
Part of the collection of images, 1906-1910, of the British School at Athens excavations at Sparta, Laconia. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sparta: fibulae".
Part of the collection of images, 1906-1910, of the British School at Athens excavations at Sparta, Laconia. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sparta: miscellaneous bronze objects".
Part of the collection of images, 1906-1910, of the British School at Athens excavations at Sparta, Laconia. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sparta: moulded pithoi, Artemis Orthia pl XIIIB + XIVB".
Part of the collection of images, 1906-1910, of the British School at Athens excavations at Sparta, Laconia. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sparta: Heroon moulded pithos BSA".
Part of the collection of images, 1906-1910, of the British School at Athens excavations at Sparta, Laconia. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sparta: fragment of large vase in relief".
Part of the collection of images, 1906-1910, of the British School at Athens excavations at Sparta, Laconia. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sparta: ivory and bone objects".