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: "Athens: Acropolis Propylaea the Pinakotheke".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: Acropolis Temple of Nike Apteros from E".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: Acropolis Parthenon from W".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: Acropolis Parthenon from N.E".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: Acropolis Erechtheion, N. door".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: Pnyx, bema of".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: Odeion of Herodes".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: Choragic monument of Lysikrates".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: Hymettos from Acropolis".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: Acropolis & Olympieon from S.E".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Peiraeus: harbour, Salamis in distance".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Peiraeus".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Peiraeus: Zea, Peiraeus, & Salamis".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Phaleron: from Munychia".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Eleusis: greater propylaea".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Eleusis: general view looking S. across stoa of Philo".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Marathon: from Vrana".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sunium: Temple from N.E".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Aegina: temple from S.E".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Corinth: general view, old temple in middle distance".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Delphi".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Bassae: Temple from N".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Bassae: Temple from S.E. angle".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Thebes".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Plataea".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Eleutherae".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Chaeroneia".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Tempe: view of valley".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Tempe: view of valley".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Meteora: H. Stephanos monastery".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Meteora".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Meteora: Kalabeka monastery from N.W".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Meteora: Kalabeka monastery from S.W".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Meteora: H. Triada monastery".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Meteora: H. Triada monastery".
The original description in the SPHS collection reads: "Olympia: Metroon & steps of treasury terrace".
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: "Delphi: tholos at Marmaria".
The original description in the SPHS collection reads: "Delphi: T. of Athena Pronaia".
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: "Athens: Hymettos, Monastery of Astéri".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: Hymettos, Monastery of Kaisariané, church from SW".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens: Hymettos, Monastery of Kaisariané, court".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Paros: Parockía, church of Hekatontapyliané, W view from village".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Paros: Parockía, church of Hekatontapyliané, from SE".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Paros: Parockía, church of Hekatontapyliané, from E".