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 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 excavation group".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens, Acropolis from North-East".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Athens, Acropolis from South-West".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Bird's eye view from Olympia (from publication)".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Wrestling scenes from Beni-Hassan".
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: "British School at Athens, Director's House, 1905".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Kufas at Bagdad on Tigris".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "K T Frost on Tigris".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Olynthos, bathroom of a house".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Corinth. The Lechaeum Road looking North, Corinth, T. fig. 97".
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: "Portrait (snap) of Duncan Mackenzie".
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: "British School at Athens: Director's House".
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 bronze bird 8th century".
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 bronze Gorgon 6th century".
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 bronze Nike, bronze support".
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 bronze mirrorhandle ca 520 BC Aphrodite + Erotes".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Cape Malea, sunset". The negative register lists this as missing, but it had been mis-filed as C 6319.
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 bronze Herakles, ca. 500 BC".
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 terracotta fragment of relief/ lower part of draped + nude figures".
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 terracotta figure of Hera 7th century".
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 (b) 8th century head, (a) 4th century head,(c ) proto Corinthian pyxis lid, early 7th century".
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 fragment of crater 2 heads".
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 ivories, 7th century (4)".
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 ivories, 7th century seal impressions".
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, general view from the East (BSA Exhibition n.201)".
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 site looking East (BSA Exhibition n.203)".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Spranger Number X 8, Costantinople Küçük Ayasofia entrance to courtyard".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Spranger Number vi 29, Ikaria Hagios Kirikos from West".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Spranger Number vi 56, Ikaria Phrantato: tree in bloom".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Spranger Number x 38, Thera: the ???? ?????? phallus".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Thoricus: theatre, cavea from E".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Thoricus: theatre, cavea from E".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Spranger Number sv 84, Perachora: stoa from South- West".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Spranger Number sv 97, Perachora from above chapel of St John".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Spranger Number vii 65, Styx the waterfall".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Spranger Number viii 33, Metapontum: Tavole Paladine, North row from South-East".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Spranger Number viii 35, Metapontum: Tavole Paladine from East".
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: "Humfry G G Payne"
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Three views of Scamander Valley by Walter Leaf".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Paros. Monastery of Longovarda".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Paros. Monastery of Longovarda".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Paros. Monastery of Longovarda".
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Spranger Number k3 4, Eretria Gymnasium and washing place from South". Date in margin: 6/1936
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Spranger Number k3 61, Thasos. Dionyseion: the Muse (Thaleia)". Date in margin: 6/1936
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Spranger Number k3 67, Thasos. Poseideion: general view from North". Date in margin: 6/1936
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Spranger Number k3 82, Thasos. Roman exedra from West". Date in margin: 6/1936
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Spranger Number k3 84, Thasos. Dionyseion, exedra from South East (cf C 6635)". Date in margin: 6/1936
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Spranger Number k3 92, Thasos. Temple of Apollo, SE corner". Date in margin: 6/1936
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Faience plaque of goat and young, from Knossos". Date in margin: 6/1936
Part of the collection of images from the 1936 Exhibition of Minoan Civilization and the first 50 years work of the BSA at Burlington House, London. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Ivory figure of tonsured boy-god (Arthur Evans collection)".