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.
Part of a group of images from explorations and excavations on the island of Melos conducted by the British School at Athens from 1896 to 1899. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Phylakopi: geometric pottery Phyl: pl.x".
Part of a group of images from explorations and excavations on the island of Melos conducted by the British School at Athens from 1896 to 1899. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Phylakopi: early Mycenaean pottery Phyl: pl.xv".
Part of a group of images from explorations and excavations on the island of Melos conducted by the British School at Athens from 1896 to 1899. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Phylakopi: early Mycenaean pottery Phyl: pl.xv,18,20".
Part of a group of images from explorations and excavations on the island of Melos conducted by the British School at Athens from 1896 to 1899. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Phylakopi: geometric pottery Phyl: pl.x".
Part of a group of images from explorations and excavations on the island of Melos conducted by the British School at Athens from 1896 to 1899. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "black and red flowered fragments Phyl: pl.xxi,15.".
Part of a group of images from explorations and excavations on the island of Melos conducted by the British School at Athens from 1896 to 1899. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Phylakopi: flat bowls with spouts Phyl: pl.xxxiii".
Part of a group of images from explorations and excavations on the island of Melos conducted by the British School at Athens from 1896 to 1899. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Phylakopi: parts of the flying fish fresco".
Part of a group of images from explorations and excavations on the island of Melos conducted by the British School at Athens from 1896 to 1899. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Phylakopi: miscellaneous minor antiquities. Phyl: pl.xxxix".
Part of a group of images from explorations and excavations on the island of Melos conducted by the British School at Athens from 1896 to 1899. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Phylakopi: miscellaneous minor antiquities. Phyl: pl.xxxviii".
Part of a group of images from explorations and excavations on the island of Melos conducted by the British School at Athens from 1896 to 1899. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Phylakopi: miscellaneous minor antiquities. Phyl: pl.xl".
Part of a group of images from explorations and excavations on the island of Melos conducted by the British School at Athens from 1896 to 1899. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Phylakopi: miscellaneous pottery".
Part of a group of images from explorations and excavations on the island of Melos conducted by the British School at Athens from 1896 to 1899. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Phylakopi: early Mycenaean pottery. Phyl: pl.xviii".
Part of a group of images from explorations and excavations on the island of Melos conducted by the British School at Athens from 1896 to 1899. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Phylakopi: fresco fragments. Phyl: p.72".
Part of a group of images from explorations and excavations on the island of Melos conducted by the British School at Athens from 1896 to 1899. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Phylakopi: later and imported Mycenaean pottery. Phyl: pls.xxvii,xxxii".
Part of a group of images from explorations and excavations on the island of Melos conducted by the British School at Athens from 1896 to 1899. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Phylakopi: fresco fragments, body and arms of a seated man Phyl: p.73".
Part of a group of images from explorations and excavations on the island of Melos conducted by the British School at Athens from 1896 to 1899. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Phylakopi: imported Mycenaean fragment".
Part of a group of images from explorations and excavations on the island of Melos conducted by the British School at Athens from 1896 to 1899. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Phylakopi: miscellaneous pottery Phyl.pl.xxxv".
Part of a group of images from explorations and excavations on the island of Melos conducted by the British School at Athens from 1896 to 1899. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Phylakopi: early Mycenaean pottery Phyl.pl.xvii".
Part of a group of images from explorations and excavations on the island of Melos conducted by the British School at Athens from 1896 to 1899. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Phylakopi: geometric pottery".
Part of a group of images from explorations and excavations on the island of Melos conducted by the British School at Athens from 1896 to 1899. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Phylakopi: flat bowls with spouts. Phyl.pl.xxxiii".
Part of a group of images from explorations and excavations on the island of Melos conducted by the British School at Athens from 1896 to 1899. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Phylakopi: later local Myceanean Phyl: pl.xxvi".
Part of a group of images from the British School at Athens excavations at Palaikastro, Crete in the 1902-1905. The original description in the SPHS negative register reads: "Palaikastro: large Jar".
Part of a group of images from the British School at Athens excavations at Palaikastro, Crete in the 1902-1905. The original description in the SPHS negative register reads: "Palaikastro: Minoan Stone vases".
Part of a group of images from the British School at Athens excavations at Palaikastro, Crete in the 1902-1905. The original description in the SPHS negative register reads: "Palaikastro: celts".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mr. Atchley's numbering: 643. Euboea, Dystos, gate of acropolis from outside".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mr. Atchley's numbering: 427. Elis, Olympia Olympia-Andritsena rd: chapel".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mycenae".
Part of a group of images donated by the Argonaut Camera Club, taken on excursions and cruises in Greece and Asia Minor. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Delos: Apollo, back view of upper half".
Part of a group of images donated by the Argonaut Camera Club, taken on excursions and cruises in Greece and Asia Minor. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Messene: walls looking down to Arcadian gate".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mycenae: 'palace court'".
Part of a group of images from explorations and excavations on the island of Melos conducted by the British School at Athens from 1896 to 1899. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Phylakopi: geometric pottery Phyl: pls.xii".
Part of a group of images from explorations and excavations on the island of Melos conducted by the British School at Athens from 1896 to 1899. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Phylakopi: the fisherman lampstand Phyl: pls.xxii".
Part of a group of images from the British School at Athens excavations at Palaikastro, Crete in the 1902-1905. The original description in the SPHS negative register reads: "Palaikastro: LM III vase".
Part of a series of images from the British School at Athens excavations at Aegosthena, led by E.A. Gardner and BSA student, E.F. Benson in 1893.The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Aegosthenes: Tower".
Part of a series of images from the British School at Athens excavations at Aegosthena, led by E.A. Gardner and BSA student, E.F. Benson in 1893. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Aegosthena: S. wall, entrance of cave".
Part of a series of images from the British School at Athens excavations at Aegosthena, led by E.A. Gardner and BSA student, E.F. Benson in 1893. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Aegosthena: E. wall and postern gate".
Part of a series of images from the British School at Athens excavations at Aegosthena, led by E.A. Gardner and BSA student, E.F. Benson in 1893. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Aegosthena: N.W. entrance gate and Tower".
Part of a series of images from the British School at Athens excavations at Aegosthena, led by E.A. Gardner and BSA student, E.F. Benson in 1893. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Aegosthena: general view from N.W. near the sea".
Part of a series of images from the British School at Athens excavations at Aegosthena, led by E.A. Gardner and BSA student, E.F. Benson in 1894/95. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Aegosthena: general view from N.W. with Prof. Gardner's camp in foreground". The entry has been struck out in the SPHS register, presumably deaccessioned.
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Attica: Byzantine church at Daou, general view".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Attica: Byzantine church at Daou, nearer view".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Attica: Byzantine church at Daou, eikonostasis".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Attica: Byzantine church at Daou, detail of".
Part of a series of images from the British School at Athens excavations at Kynosarges (1896, 1896/97). Original description in the SPHS register reads: "Kynosarges site: rubble wall of 6th cent. (BSA II p.24)".
Part of a series of images from the British School at Athens excavations at Kynosarges (1896, 1896/97). Original description in the SPHS register reads: "Kynosarges site: progress of excavation: detail".
Part of a series of images from the British School at Athens excavations at Kynosarges (1896, 1896/97). Original description in the SPHS register reads: "Kynosarges site: fragment of a stele built into wall".
Part of a series of images from the British School at Athens excavations at Kynosarges (1896, 1896/97). Original description in the SPHS register reads: "Kynosarges site: Ionic cap from theatre. (BSA III p. 96)"
Part of a series of images from the British School at Athens excavations at Kynosarges (1896, 1896/97). Original description in the SPHS register reads: "Kynosarges site: Roman stoa? Block grooved to form gutter. (BSA II 25)".
Part of a series of images from the British School at Athens excavations at Kynosarges (1895/6, 1896/97). Original description in the SPHS register reads: "Kynosarges; Style relief".
Part of a series of images from the British School at Athens excavations at Kynosarges (1895/6, 1896/97). Original description in the SPHS register reads: "Dipylon from Kynosarges B. S. A. XII p. 85. fig. 6".