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: "Sardis; Eastern front colonnade, looking North-East".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sardis; View of ruins C on Map 1, Butler, Sardis,I.1".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sardis; View of ruins B on Map 1, Butler, Sardis,I.1".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sardis (near); Stele published JHS xxxvii. 1917, p. 105".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sardis; Stele found near temple (2nd century BC re-used)".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Magnesia and Sardis (near); Rock carving (Niobe)".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Magnesia and Sardis (near); Rock carving (Niobe)".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sardis; Group at Sart station, 1913".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sardis; Group at Sart station, 1913".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sardis; Our camp when inspecting site in 1907".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Asia Minor; Smyrna; View to North; Mount Pagus behind".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Asia Minor; Afion-Karahisar; view of citadel hill looking South-East".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Asia Minor; Philadelphia (Alashehr); Byzantine wall of the city".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Asia Minor; Constantinopole; View from Pera of Golden Horn+ city".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Delphi, Athenian treasury".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Erechteion, the Caryatid Porch".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Eleusis, the large Propylaea".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Rhodes, the "ship" rock carving at the entrance to Lindos".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Rhodes, an old house at Lindos".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Asia Minor, Sardis; view of acropolis looking South East".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Asia Minor, Therapia; view of inlet from Bosphorus 'Summer palace'".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Asia Minor, Sardis (near); View to North of "Bin Tepe" tumuli".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Asia Minor, Malkajck (near Smyrna); threshing on the van Lennep chiftlik, 1910".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Asia Minor, Malkajck (near Smyrna); view in village".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Asia Minor, Constantinopole; Street near the Grand Bazar".
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: a festival. Wrestling on the beach".
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: a festival. The poet improvising".
Part of a collection of images from the BSA excavations at Praisos, Crete in 1901. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Praesos: a festival".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Anagni, fresco in church".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "S Leonardo (Apulia), apse of church".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Ephesus general view".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Ephesus view from the theatre"
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Ephesus view of theatre".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Ephesus view of agora".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Ephesus view of library".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Propylaea, before and after restoration".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Parthenon, before and after restoration".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Erechteum, before and after restoration".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Slide of the frieze of the Parthenon showing above condition when the casts were made in and beneath their deteriorated condition today".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Slide of the frieze of the Parthenon showing above condition when the casts were made in and beneath their deteriorated condition today".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Slide of the frieze of the Parthenon showing above condition when the casts were made in and beneath their deteriorated condition today".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Slide of the frieze of the Parthenon showing above condition when the casts were made in and beneath their deteriorated condition today".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Slide of the frieze of the Parthenon showing above condition when the casts were made in and beneath their deteriorated condition today".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Slide of the frieze of the Parthenon showing above condition when the casts were made in and beneath their deteriorated condition today".
Part of the collection of images, 1930-1939, of the British School at Athens excavations at Perachora, Corinthia. The original description in the SPHS register reads "Perachora: harbour and site of temple."
Part of the collection of images, 1930-39, of the British School at Athens excavations at Perachora, Corinthia. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Perachora: view of harbour with site of temple".
Part of the collection of images, 1930-39, of the British School at Athens excavations at Perachora, Corinthia. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Perachora: temple from above".
Part of the collection of images, 1930-39, of the British School at Athens excavations at Perachora, Corinthia. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Perachora: foreman with drill for sounding for tombs".
Part of the collection of images, 1930-39, of the British School at Athens excavations at Perachora, Corinthia. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Perachora: view of temple from above".
Part of the collection of images, 1930-39, of the British School at Athens excavations at Perachora, Corinthia. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Perachora: 2 views of Heraeum promontory, with lighthouse".