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: "Delphi: Relief in the Museum".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Stiris: Monastery of St. Luke. The Church. West front".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Stiris: Monastery of St. Luke. East end".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Stiris: Monastery of St. Luke. East end".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Stiris: Monastery of St. Luke. Gen. view fr S.E. Parnassus in background. (W.L. Enlargement No.9)".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Helicon: (Hieron of the Muses) general view. Hill of Acra to right".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Helicon: (Hieron of the Muses) The Proscenium of the Theatre".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Helicon: (Hieron of the Muses) The Proscenium of the Theatre".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Epidaurus: Hieron: Theatre: seats from below".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Epidaurus: Hieron: Theatre: part of ring of orchestra".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mistra: ruins of Princesses' Palace".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mistra: ruins of Princesses' Palace".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mistra: ruins seen from Pantanassa".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mistra: Church of Pantanassa".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Group of early objects: unidentified".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: Olympieion from the Acropolis".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Pergamon: Roman baths".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Pergamon: upper gynmasium".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Pergamon: Traianeum".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Pergamon: Temple of Athena".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Pergamon: Substructure of altar from above".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Pergamon: Theatre: upper part".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Pergamon: lower gynmasium".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Tiryns: general view from W., near view".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Tiryns: Great Portal on E. east. (W.L. Enlargement No.17)".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Tiryns: Sallyport and Ancient staircase in W. wall (W.L. Enlargement No. 16)".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Tiryns: West Wall looking north".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Tiryns: Anta base from Great Propylaea showing sawcuts".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mycenae: Treasury of Atreus, Interior".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mycenae: General view of citadel from S. (W.L. Enlargement No. 12)".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Tiryns: Gallery leading down to well in North wall".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mycenae: "Mrs. Schliemann's Treasury" showing the latest excavations. (W.L. Enlargement No.13)".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Karytaina: view of the castle from the East".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Karytaina: view of the castle from the East".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Karytaina: Interior of the castle".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Karytaina: Plain of Megalopolis from the ruins of the Castle".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Hieron of Epidaurus: Cyclopean bridge between Nauplia and Hieron".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Hieron of Epidaurus: foundations, Temple of Artemis".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Hieron of Epidaurus: foundations, Tholos, distant view".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Hieron of Epidaurus: foundations, Temple of Asklepios".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Hieron of Epidaurus: Tholos of Polykleitos (near view)".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Hieron of Epidaurus: Roman Odeion, theatre in the distance".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Hieron of Epidaurus: Orchestra & cavea from the top".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Acropolis: Theatre of Dionysus"
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Acropolis: Temple of Victory. S.E. corner".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Acropolis: Temple of Victory. S.E. corner".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Acropolis: Bastion of Odysseus (since destroyed)".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Acropolis: Propylaea, from Cimon's wall".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Acropolis: Erechtheum & pre-Persian temple, from top of Parthenon".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Acropolis: Parthenon, N.W. corner through a Byzantine arch of the Erechtheum".