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, reliefs of stage".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens, reliefs of stage".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens, reliefs of stage".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens, Asklepieion looking East".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Eleusis, pediment + architrave reconstructed".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Eleusis, altar with Eleusinian torches: other fragments".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Eleusis".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Marathon, soros".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Asine".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Asine, tower of Eastern side of Acropolis commanding gateway".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Asine, North-Western walls".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Epidaurus, theatre reconstruction of arcade".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Epidaurus, great colonnade".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Epidaurus".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Tiryns, Stairway in Western Wall".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Epidaurus, panel from roof of tholos (in Museum)".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Bronze helmet, Italic type, from Lake Kopais".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Bronze helmet, Italic type, from Lake Kopais, the same, neck piece with inscription".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Olympia: general view of excavated site".
One of a group of images relating to the British School at Athens: buildings and setting, scholars and students. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "D G Hogarth 1862-1927".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens monument basis in Propylaea".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mycenae interior of tholos".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Tiryns".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Tiryns".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Tiryns".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Cretan travelling potter at work".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Store jars-ancient and modern".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Potters-modern "throwers" at work".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Outdoor baking oven near Myceneae".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Chalkis-the modern pot market".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sardis; Pactolus valley, temple and acropolis. To East (under snow, February 1912)".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sardis; same view, 1910; excavation beginning".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sardis; three stelae with Lydian inscriptions".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sardis; view from necropolis hill to North East; Tmolus with snow".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sardis; Eastern door of the temple, looking South-East".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sardis; wrestling match at the Eastern end of the temple, June 1914".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sardis; wrestling match at the Eastern end of the temple, June 1914".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sardis; Eastern portico of the temple, looking South".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sardis; Eastern portico of the temple, looking West".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sardis; Eastern portico of the temple (unexcavated, 1912). To North-East".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sardis; Eastern portico of the temple, similar view".
Sardis: Column in E. portico with William Hepburn Buckler on the right. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sardis; Column in Eastern portico".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sardis; Excavation of Eastern portico".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sardis; Winged griffin, part of Claudia Sabina sarcophagus".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sardis; Cover of same sarcophagus".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sardis; Parts of the same".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sardis; Console of Eastern door of the temple".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sardis; Excavation in Eastern portico".