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: "Mr. Atchley's numbering: 91. Argolis, Mycenae 'Clytemestras' tomb".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mr. Atchley's numbering: 798. Argolis, Mycenae view W from".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mr. Atchley's numbering: 20. Argolis, Mycenae view WNW from town".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mr. Atchley's numbering: 92. Argolis, Mycenae view from outside door on SE wall".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mr. Atchley's numbering: 95. Argolis, Mycenae view summit of N height above Mycenae".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mr. Atchley's numbering: 832. Argolis, Mycenae view W on Mycenae-Nemea path".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mr. Atchley's numbering: 832. Argolis, Mycenae view W on Mycenae-Nemea path".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mr. Atchley's numbering: 397. Argolis, Mycenae Cyclopean bridge on way to Argos".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mr. Atchley's numbering: 244. Elis, Olympia gen view Kronion &c".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mr. Atchley's numbering: 245. Elis, Olympia with hotel & museum".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mr. Atchley's numbering: 243. Elis, Olympia Heraion".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mr. Atchley's numbering: 261. Elis, Olympia Heraion".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mr. Atchley's numbering: 48. Elis, Olympia Heraion".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mr. Atchley's numbering: 37. Elis, Olympia Philippeion and angle of Heraion".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mr. Atchley's numbering: 433. Elis, Olympia stadium, entrance".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mr. Atchley's numbering: 1040. Elis, Olympia lion head waterspout".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mr. Atchley's numbering: 19 bis. Addenda. Mycenae, polygonal wall".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mr. Atchley's numbering: 19 ter. Addenda. Mycenae, polygonal wall".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mr. Atchley's numbering: wrong number. Addenda. Mycenae, postern".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mycenae, tomb".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mycenae, tomb".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mycenae, Lion Gate".
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, road from. stepped intervals for drainage".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Cnossos, underground fountain chamber".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Delos, cave temple from within".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Delos, house".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens, Erechtheion from SW".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Messene, Archadian gate".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mycenae, lion gate".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mycenae, treasury of Atreus, facade".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mycenae, postern gate".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Olympia, entrance to Altis"
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Olympia, temple of Zeus fallen columns".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Delphi stadium".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Delphi stadium aphesis".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Delphi gymnasium bath+douches".