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: "Gortyna archaic insc. in Temple of Apollo".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Bralo, scenery near".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Delphi, Crisean plain".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens, Acropolis from NE (Lykavetos)".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Eleusis, altar with Eleusian torches".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Corinth, temple".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sparta & Tayegetos".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Yalowadi (Asia Minor)".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Yalowadi (Asia Minor)".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Yalowadi (Asia Minor)".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Yalowadi (Asia Minor)".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Gulf of Salamis from Paraeus".
The original description in the SPHS collection reads: "Orchomenos: prehistoric walls".
The original description in the SPHS collection reads: "Orchomenos: tholos tomb from without".
The original description in the SPHS collection reads: "Orchomenos: tholos tomb from within".
The original description in the SPHS collection reads: "Orchomenos: acropolis".
The original description in the SPHS collection reads: "Thermon: T. of Apollo".
The original description in the SPHS collection reads: "Thermon: elliptical building".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Monastery on Mt. Hymettus (Kaitariané)".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Ilissus in winter".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Ilissus in winter".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Caps in temple theatre of Dionysus at Athens".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Caps in temple theatre of Dionysus at Athens".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mosaics in the great dome of the convent at Daphni: Pankrater".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mosaics in the great dome of the convent at Daphni: Transfiguration".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mosaics in the great dome of the convent at Daphni: group of saints".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Convent of Daphni". No negative number is listed in the register.
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Plan of temple of Phipaleia".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Plan of Delos".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Frieze of Theseum. Frieze of Phipaleia".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Plain of Epidaurus".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sunium".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sunium".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Korai Porch".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Psychro: excav. LMIII house in A. view of vestibule & court beyond".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Syracuse: Ortygia & Plemmgrion from fountain of Arethusa".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Syracuse: 'Ear of Dionysus'".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Arch of Hadrian".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Acrop. Mus.: heads, Nos, 635, 647 (terra cotta)".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Acrop. Mus.: head, torso (terra cotta)".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Acrop. Mus.: heads, Nos, 635, 647 (terra cotta)".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Corfu: the citadel from the S. Nicolas landing".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Korai Porch".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Map of Salonika district: showing British front & prehistoric sites".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Pithos found near Salonika".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mr. Atchley's numbering: 768. Attica, Phyle, 'Harma' & gorge of Pangia tou Kleirtron".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Patmos court of monastery and entrance to church".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Patmos view to SE: library windows: domes of church".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Patmos SW angle of monastery".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Patmos view to E across hamlet: sea & windmills".